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Math Mutation 231: A New Dimension in Housing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:33

Buckminster Fuller's first four-dimensional house. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 230: Just Say The Dog Ate It | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:03:50

Should professors assign famous unsolved problems as homework? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 229: When Numbers Change | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:24

If you test a conjecture with values up to 60 digits, can you assume it will be true forever? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 228: So Easy It's Hard | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:05

Exploring the "Collatz Conjecture", which is simple enough to explain to a child, but has yet to be proven. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 227: Heads In The Clouds | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:03

Gulliver's lesser known voyage to Laputa, which satirized out-of-touch mathematicians. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 226: See You Next Year | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:58

If a friend wants to meet "a year from Monday", when exactly is that? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 225: A Crazy Kind of Computer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:28

How stochastic computing cleverly utilizes the laws of probability. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 224: Did America Fail a Math Test? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:04:21

Did the Third Pound Burger fail because people thought it was too small? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 223: Think With Both Your Brains | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:01

Harness the power of your "R-mode" for problem solving. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 222: Fractal Expressionism | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:55

Are abstract expressionist paintings really fractals? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 221: The Trouble With Glass Beads | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:07:17

Are modern physicists just playing a "glass bead game"? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 220: Cognitive BSes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:29

Are the "Cognitive Biases" reallly flaws in the human mind? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 219: A Portal to the Past | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:32

Can you travel in time using the International Dateline? (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 218: Itching for the I Ching | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:06:26

John Cage's music and the mathematics of the I Ching. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

Math Mutation 217: The Oxford Calculators | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:05:30

Discussing a lesser-known group of 14th-century philosophers who laid the foundations for Galileo. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)

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