Beyond Euclid #220

Welcome to Beyond Euclid #219, 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.

Hello from Beyond Euclid 220. Hope your week was good.

This one has geometry that earns its place, a 23-year-old who just broke a 60-year math problem with one ChatGPT prompt, negative time measured in a lab, a whale that the internet couldn’t stop watching, parents taking screens out of schools, a governor who spent children’s welfare money on his own campaign, and cherry blossoms from above.

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