Brilliant 25min watch by @veritasium.bsky.social on the geometry of protein folding, AI development, and the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Great explaining with loads of quality clips and images.

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MIT economist Abhijit Banerjee and team show that kids' excellent practical math skills like mental arithmetic learned working in India's markets are not being transferred to success in the classroom and social mobility. Missed opportunities. #STEAM.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Aesthetics, mathematics and formalism - Jonny Thomson for @bigthink.com with Marcus du Sautoy citing Mozart, Debussy, Messiaen, Bartok, Shakespeare, Le Corbusier, Pollock.

"I believe that our Universe around us is a physical piece of mathematics" - Marcus du Sautoy

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"Molecular drawings and representations of crystals... are some of the beautiful aspects of chemistry. When I was a kid, I encountered these molecular drawings and didn’t know what they were but for some reason I immediately fell in love with them." - Omar Yaghi, reticular chemistry pioneer.

"There is also little doubt that my ‘Meccano’ set whetted my appetite many years later for constructing artificial molecular machinery from the bottom up." - Fraser Stoddart, the late Nobel laureate and nano technology pioneer who died recently aged 82.

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Incredible geometric sculptures made from straw by Finnish himmeli artist Eija Koski in this @nytimes.com article from 2021.

"For me, it’s a three-dimensional structure which speaks a mathematical language of beauty... They speak to me" - Eija Koski

www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/f...

Brilliant collection of interviews with Scandinavian artists & designers by Vimala Söderqvist - particularly the one with Bella Rune talking about her career and practice, and her exquisite textile sculptures. #ExaPlex #sculpture

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MatterGen, a program using AI diffusion models to generate new material candidates from existing stable material structures. Nice photo of Nobel laureate Frederick Sanger working with a DNA molecule model. Thanks @msftresearch.bsky.social @forbes.com. #ExaPlex.

www.forbes.com/sites/johnwe...

Short Q&A with Manjul Bhargava on how playing with a 2x2 Rubik's cube inspired his work that won him the 2014 Fields medal. Thanks @newscientist.bsky.social. #ExaPlex #play #STEAM

www.newscientist.com/article/mg22...

Such a great article and video from 2014 about Manjul Bhargava and his methods linking math, music, art and play. Thanks @ericaklarreich.bsky.social. #ExaPlex #play #STEAM

www.quantamagazine.org/number-theor...