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Hi, I’m David Plaxco. On this account, I share aesthetic solution states of n-layer Rubik's cubes. Otherwise, I teach math at UGA, research undergraduate mathematics education, and try to make my experiences here on earth more meaningful.

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Back-to-school admin meetings already started?

30.07.2025 22:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Create an animation showing that two reflections are equivalent to a rotation. #MathsAnimationTMiP
YouTube video by Sam Hartburn Create an animation showing that two reflections are equivalent to a rotation. #MathsAnimationTMiP

My video for #MathsAnimationTMiP July: Create an animation showing that a reflection followed by another reflection is equivalent to a rotation. youtu.be/wFdlrn-kzsg

Find out more and join in at www.talkingmathsinpublic.uk/animation/

24.07.2025 08:45 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Wow! I didn’t realize the dollar was so weak against the pound!
😉

20.07.2025 22:28 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Dual-Sided Rubik's Cube Mosaic: MDSI Method | Andrey Maslov for Bridges 2025
YouTube video by SQUILE | Rubik’s Cube Art Dual-Sided Rubik's Cube Mosaic: MDSI Method | Andrey Maslov for Bridges 2025

Teenage cuber, Andrey Maslov, was scheduled to speak at Bridges about making two-sided Rubik's Cube mosaics (the same image on both sides, with different colors). He found out at the last moment that he was unable to attend. So, he posted his talk on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uap0...

16.07.2025 20:48 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
Shiny angular jewelry with black and white accents.

Shiny angular jewelry with black and white accents.

Getting excited for the Bridges fashion show tonight! On the runway will be the world premiere of my black and white rhodium plated knight's tour jewelry!

16.07.2025 17:12 — 👍 32    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Hate to miss this!

11.07.2025 21:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

BIG day for mathematicians who play NYT Spelling Bee.

28.06.2025 16:17 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The same goes for surgery on many folds.

24.06.2025 09:17 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Definitions in math are not inevitable, but rather are choices people have made. We could make different choices if we thought it would be useful.

18.06.2025 02:54 — 👍 42    🔁 8    💬 5    📌 2

12,555 to be on the safe side?

17.06.2025 20:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Remarkable.

MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful."

Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd.

Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

14.06.2025 23:07 — 👍 44801    🔁 16395    💬 1079    📌 1201

Weather update?

14.06.2025 21:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Aha!! I probably played that as my first word about 150 times before it hit. Now I have to think of a new one!

14.06.2025 21:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

??

14.06.2025 16:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wordle 1,456 1/6*

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

14.06.2025 12:05 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Does each of the 8 points have to be *on* the quadrilateral? Might some be on the extended lines (looks like you have a faint trace of each side extending outward)

14.06.2025 11:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Any chance I could get a link to an article/video of the original lie/promise?

10.06.2025 12:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Leviticus 19:33-34 (New International Version)

33 “‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 34 The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

08.06.2025 12:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BTW: This is the Bible verse referenced in the graffiti.

08.06.2025 12:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Here are all 54 distinct knots/links that Tanya and I have identified in our exploration of a specific class of knots on 9-layer Rubik's cubes. We have also determined that this list contains no redundancies & that any of the 4096 patterns that we began with is equivalent to one of these 54 knots.

07.06.2025 12:16 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

archive.bridgesmathart.org/2024/bridges...

04.06.2025 13:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A mathematical knot superimposed on a disk that represents a projection of a Rubik's cube. This knot has 12 crossings and is one of 54 such knots that I have found with Tatyana.

A mathematical knot superimposed on a disk that represents a projection of a Rubik's cube. This knot has 12 crossings and is one of 54 such knots that I have found with Tatyana.

A mathematical knot superimposed on a disk that represents a projection of a Rubik's cube. This knot has 12 crossings and is one of 54 such knots that I have found with Tatyana.

A mathematical knot superimposed on a disk that represents a projection of a Rubik's cube. This knot has 12 crossings and is one of 54 such knots that I have found with Tatyana.

I've been investigating a class of knots with Tatyana Khodorovskiy. We began with 4,096 initial patterns on a 9-layer cube and have reduced this set to identify 54 distinct knots in this class. You can read more about it in my Bridges paper from last year, but we're currently writing up the results!

04.06.2025 13:47 — 👍 23    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Are you working in civil rights enforcement for the federal government and being made to investigate racial equity programs OR are you an organization being investigated or had your federal funds stripped for racial equity work? Message me. Signal: nhannahjones.67

29.05.2025 13:17 — 👍 231    🔁 118    💬 1    📌 1

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

28.05.2025 16:22 — 👍 10766    🔁 2246    💬 492    📌 110

This explains it! Thanks for including me, Martin.

26.05.2025 12:11 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Artemis
This is a photo of a cat yawning while sitting in a window bed. The afternoon sun is coming through the window.

Artemis This is a photo of a cat yawning while sitting in a window bed. The afternoon sun is coming through the window.

20.05.2025 21:55 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Apparently, “notationally” is not one of the six pangrams today.

20.05.2025 11:58 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#MSH45 | 8:32 a.m.
The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens.
The bulge collapses outward.
Within seconds, a lateral blast surges through the disintegrating slope.

7 miles north, Gerry Martin describes what he sees—until the radio goes silent.

18.05.2025 15:32 — 👍 544    🔁 208    💬 18    📌 48

Younger folks around here might shocked to learn that once upon a time Bill Clinton let a few campaign donors have a sleepover at the White House & the national media spent months treating it as the greatest scandal in the history of the republic

16.05.2025 21:11 — 👍 1374    🔁 406    💬 35    📌 8
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Mathematical Objects Podcast – list of episodes Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett chat about some aspect of mathematics using a mathematical object as inspiration. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | RSS. …

Thinking about @steckl.es and my Mathematical Objects podcast.

Last season we chatted poetry, category theory, space-filling curves, parallelepipeds, voting & road sign regulations, we stared deep into an area the size of Wales and feasted on a universe of cake.

Search wherever you get podcasts.

15.05.2025 13:09 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

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