“If the temperatures are above freezing, you have a chance of encountering a tick. It is kind of a heavy lift, but we tell people to check themselves every single day for ticks.”
Honeycombs take advantage of hexagonal lattices to store the most honey in the smallest possible space. Cornell mathematician Steven Strogatz explains that engineers take advantage of space-saving math to make solar cells and to optimize video streaming. Click the link to read his New York Times column and learn how.
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New York Times | Math, Revealed
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