Beyond Euclid #192
Welcome to Beyond Euclid #192, the newsletter for the best mathematics and science stuff of the week. I am Ali, and I curate cool math and science stuff every week to help you have a better week.
A new week, and another issue I truly enjoyed putting together. While curating the pieces, I realized something: things that seem unrelated often turn out to be different answers to the same question. Take MIT’s robotic bee, lighter than a paperclip—not just an engineering feat, but also a first attempt at answering “how will we grow food on other planets?” Or the Swiss Museum of Transport’s façade, clad entirely in old traffic signs—a way of turning a city’s memory into concrete form.
A new pill being tested to help the brain heal challenges decades of dogma that “the brain cannot regenerate.” Meanwhile, an interactive map that predicts exactly when autumn leaves will change color shows how beauty can still be planned, even in the shadow of climate change. There are sobering but hopeful scenarios about the oceans’ future, and tucked deep inside the digits of e, a hidden prime number—each one a reminder that looking closely often reveals the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Bringing these…