Lego maths

Computer programmer Andrew Lipson, 42, has a PhD in knot theory. In his spare time he builds Lego models of improbable and minimal-surface shapes, including a punctured torus, Klein bottles, Mobius strips, a cross-cap, Costa surface, a Bour’s surface, figure-eight knots (pictured) and more.

brainy honeybee

While the honeybee’s brain has five orders of magnitude less neurons than that of humans, the little brain they do have they use very effectively. Bees recognise a flower’s colour and shape and waggle-dance that information back to the social network at the hive. Honeybees possess the most complex symbolic language of non-primates.

heart overload

For every 10 kilograms of extra body fat, there are some 29 kilometres of extra blood vessels through which blood must be pumped.

live zoo cam

Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Zoo in the heart of Washington, DC, is a 163-acre zoological park set amid Rock Creek National Park. At nationalzoo.si.edu you can watch live video from numerous enclosures such as tiger cub cam, panda cam, asian elephant cam, naked mole rat cam and many more!  

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March 2007

• Petria Thomas: Beating the Blues

• Growing Great Children

• Mark’s Heroines

• Treasures in Jars of Clay

• John Wycliffe: The Reformation’s Morning Star

• Healing Love

• Little Gods

• The Heavenly Temple

• When Jesus Returns

• From Small Ideas to Big Business

• Suffering Infertility, Grief, and God

• A Little “Thummim” to Help You Make Up Your Mind

  
  

  Signs Regular Columns

• Book Review:
  The Spiral Staircase

• Food Matters Recipe:
  Passionfruit, Avocado and Spinach Salad

• Deeper:
  The Humility of God

• Food Matters:
  Eat More, Weigh Less

• Our Times:
  brainy honeybee, live zoo cam and more

• Bible Discovery:
  true versus false worship

• Medical Hotline
  With Dr James Wright

• Lifeguide

 

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