088 = Tired Tires and Curvy Cubes

A Problem Squared

🚘 What happens when tires get tired?

🧊 What is the equation for the curve on a spinning Ruibik’s cube?

📜 And there’s some pin related AOB!

Find out more about the counting crows here: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0984

You can hear Bec on Ali Plumb’s podcast ‘Screen Time’ here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02r4zfx/episodes/downloads

If you want to learn more about the EMF Festival, follow this link: https://www.emfcamp.org/

To read ‘Where the tire meets the road: Emerging environmental impacts of tire wear particles and their chemical cocktails’, go here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.171153

For more information on the cones, ruled surfaces, hyperbolic paraboloids and more, have a look at the links below!

• https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hyperboloid.html

• https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RuledSurface.html

• https://mathworld.wolfram.com/HyperbolicParaboloid.html

You can see some nice hyperboloid structures here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid#Hyperboloid_structures

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