February 13, 2004

Learning math at the corner store.

Yesterday I smelled something pleasantly tangy as I walked into a meeting. One of my colleagues was nestling a Wint-O-Green Life Saver candy in his mouth.


Illustration from Kepler's journal

According to this morning's New York Times, scientists have made another important breakthrough in the fascinating field of complex materials theory: the problem of how to most densely pack spherical or round molecules.

Posted to crescat scientia by salim at 01:28 PM