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Let's Go To Greece
There's a modern medical breakthrough hiding in ancient myth.
Sep 15
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Aaron Zinger
5
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Prehistoric Algorithms, Part 2 - Fair Division
On the surprisingly difficult field of cake cutting.
Aug 29
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Aaron Zinger
6
Prehistoric Algorithms, Part 1 - Period Tracking
What math did we do before agriculture?
Aug 28
•
Aaron Zinger
7
1
Levenshtein's Festival
On the mythic roots of autocorrect.
Aug 20
•
Aaron Zinger
4
3
The Hermit and the Bear
A cautionary tale whose moral keeps changing.
Aug 15
•
Aaron Zinger
3
Triangle-Sitting
On the history of dance and the dance of history, plus an irrelevant cute dog story.
Aug 5
•
Aaron Zinger
6
3
This is a freedom struggle
A Muslim, a priest, and a rabbi get on a bus...
Jul 1
•
Aaron Zinger
8
Who Shot Richard Honey?
Let's crack a two hundred years cold case.
May 29
•
Aaron Zinger
2
1
Five "Our Fathers"
Some notable recitations of the Lord's Prayer.
May 20
•
Aaron Zinger
5
1
Is it ethical to eat this pineapple?
A flowchart.
May 15
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Aaron Zinger
6
1
A Civil War Soldier And Other People Who Maybe Saved My Life Today
I was on a train today that hit a deer, causing the brakes to fail.
May 4
•
Aaron Zinger
6
4
The Princess and the Porcupine
The royalist and the royal behind the 1830s democratization of Britain.
Apr 29
•
Aaron Zinger
16
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