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Adam Spencer
Aug 14, 2024
Number 24: Factorials and four-dimensional fever
I was recently at the awesome Beaker Street public science festival in Hobart with some Aussie legends #NerdHeaven
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Adam Spencer
Jun 19, 2024
Number 23: The birthday paradox of probability
How many people in a group do you need to have before the probability of a shared birthday amongst them?
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Adam Spencer
Mar 12, 2024
Number 22: The whole 22 yards
Get reading! There’s no time to waste. At 225 million years per rotation, the sun will only orbit the Milky Way another 22 times before...
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Adam Spencer
Feb 29, 2024
What makes a leap year?
Every four years, maths nerds, astronomers and calendrists alike get pretty excited about today's date, 29 February.
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Adam Spencer
Jan 17, 2024
Number 21: Weighing the soul
Debunking an urban myth and 21 stages of Tour de Carb - how would you eat your way through?
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Adam Spencer
Dec 21, 2023
Number 20: Happy silly season
Kids counting down til Santa comes. Watch me in conversation with futurist Amy Webb at SXSW. And was Plato ever wrong?
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Adam Spencer
Nov 30, 2023
Number 19: The beauty of Go
Go is the most simple but strategically complex board game of them, all played on a 19x19 grid...
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Adam Spencer
Nov 9, 2023
Number 18: Solve a classic brain buster to win a prize
Plus the mathematical beauty of the James Webb telescope.
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Adam Spencer
Sep 20, 2023
Number 17: From haikus to subs and sudokus
An English haiku,
Has seventeen syllables,
Flowing through three lines.
All that and more as we go deep on the number 17...
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Adam Spencer
Aug 15, 2023
Number 16: Go the Matildas!
Sixteen things you mightn't know about the Matildas' #16 Hayley Raso. Plus catch me on the ABC TV's Q+A special National Science Week...
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Adam Spencer
Jul 26, 2023
Number 15: Old skool cool
Hanging with the stars, determining dermatoglyphics, necking a Melchizedek and books to be won. Thanks for reading my nerdy newsletter......
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Adam Spencer
Jul 2, 2023
Number 14: Wacky stomachy and wise teens
An ancient puzzle, a dummy spit on the golf course and no fours on the floor. We’ve packed a fortnight of fun into number 014 and you're...
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Adam Spencer
Jun 8, 2023
Number 13: Who's afraid of the number 13?
What scares a triskaidekaphobe? The United (much smaller) States. And an incredibly cool new shape. Enjoy these fascinating facts about...
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Adam Spencer
Apr 20, 2023
Number 12: Can you calculate the angles of a dodecagon?
Let's meet the largest number that has just one syllable (single-morpheme). Take it away 12.
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Adam Spencer
Mar 23, 2023
Number 11: Spinal Tap, Stranger Things, Australian Cricket team
What do Spinal Tap, Stranger Things and the Australian Cricket team have in common? That’s right, the first two-digit prime number – 11!...
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Adam Spencer
Feb 16, 2023
Number 10: Antarctica and tetratcys of the decad
Welcome to 2023! I know it's been a while since we geeked out, but it’s been a big few months, including an incredible trip to Antarctica...
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Adam Spencer
Oct 18, 2022
Number 9: Why 438,579,088 is an incredible number
Welcome to my most jam-packed number newsletter yet. The last of the single digits, 009 won't disappoint! 9th pitch drop Scientists are...
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Adam Spencer
Aug 29, 2022
Number 8: Eight planets in our solar system?
In Chinese culture, the number 8 is considered lucky because the Cantonese word for 8 sounds similar to the word for 'prosper' or...
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Adam Spencer
Jul 7, 2022
Number 7: Is seven the lucky number?
Think of a number between 1 and 10. How many colours in a rainbow? (Hint: strictly more than 7!) What is cyclic permutation? And an...
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Adam Spencer
Jun 14, 2022
Number 6: From sexy primes to the first perfect number
A number so sexy it's perfect. In conversation with AFLW's Daisy Pearce. A chance to navigate the Milky Way. And raising over $70,000,000...
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