Douglas Bell
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Douglas Bell
@bellye66.bsky.social
writer, math groupie
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Puzzles and puzzle makers constitute in part Siobhan Roberts' beat. Today's entry is a corker.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/s...
Puzzle Designers Search for That ‘Satisfying Click’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
‘Don’t Think, Just Solve’ www.nytimes.com/interactive/... @eroston.bsky.social this has you written all over it (I mean it's not the The Beatles; still...) Siobhan Roberts at her weirdo best! Four bylines!
How a Speedcubing World Record Holder Does It
Max Park is a longtime speedcubing world record holder — for the 3x3x3 cube, his best official time is 3.13 seconds. Let's show you how he does it.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Reposted by Douglas Bell
A Mathematical ‘Fever Dream’ Hits the Road www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/s...
A Mathematical ‘Fever Dream’ Hits the Road
Meet “Mathemalchemy,” a traveling math-meets-art installation coming eventually to a dimension near you.
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Savonarola lives!
March 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Reposted by Douglas Bell
A rose plant is red
And a late bloomer.
I'm logging off, to
See less about Schumer.
March 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's Pi day: "Ingrid Daubechies...is an expert on many matters, not least the baking of cookies in the shape of pi... she prefers a savory version with cheese (Parmigiano-Reggiano) and herbs (thyme and marjoram)." The incomparable Siobhan Roberts! @eroston.bsky.social nytimes.com/2025/03/14/s...
A Mathematical ‘Fever Dream’ Hits the Road
Meet “Mathemalchemy,” a traveling math-meets-art installation coming eventually to a dimension near you.
nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Richard Hamilton. who devised the Ricci flow and should have received half the Millennium Prize for solving the Poincare conjecture (this according to Perelman who won it then turned it down), gets a suitable obit in The Times from Siobhan Roberts. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/s...
Richard Hamilton, Who Helped Solve a Mathematical Mystery, Dies at 81
He came up with an innovative equation called the Ricci flow that helped mathematicians explore fundamental questions that were once out of reach.
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December 5, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Reposted by Douglas Bell
No one, last week: The right is taking advantage of popular anger at campus antisemitism to roll a Trojan Horse-attack into universities.

This week:
www.inquirer.com/education/ma...
Penn faculty fear the donor who started the effort to oust Liz Magill is attempting to set the agend...
Marc Rowan, who co-leads Wharton’s board of advisors, is asking questions about instruction, faculty hiring, free speech, and political orientation.
www.inquirer.com
December 13, 2023 at 1:24 PM