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Happy International Women's Day!

We celebrate with some of our favourite articles and interviews with female mathematicians and physicists from the last year.
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David Spiegelhalter's favourite people of science

David Spiegelhalter, one of our favourite experts on statistics, recently joined David Attenborough, Bill Bryson and other eminent contributors on the Royal Society's People of Science series. You can watch the video here.
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Happy e day!

Today is e day! Celebrate the lovely number e with some of our favourite articles on the topic.
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Bizarre conclusion from alcohol study

Can a pint a day give you dementia? Yes, if reported claims of a recent study are to be believed, but no if you have a closer look at the data the study was based on.
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Spaghetti, chance and typhoid

In 1915 a cook in California accidentally infected 93 people with typhoid. Over 100 years on mathematicians shed light on a long-standing mystery surrounding this and other outbreaks of infectious diseases.
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On the tiles

Our colleague Becky Warren has been distracting us with her wonderful tiling puzzles...