- The Biggest Smallest Triangle Just Got Smaller | Quanta Magazine |A new proof breaks a decades-long drought of progress on the problem of estimating the size of triangles created by cramming points into a square https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-biggest-smallest-triangle-just-got-smaller-20230908/ 3 comments math
- Turkey's Erdogan moves to sue French Le Point magazine https://abcnews.go.com/international/wirestory/turkeys-erdogan-moves-sue-french-le-point-magazine-66521040 6 comments europe
- Turkey’s Erdogan files criminal complaint against French magazine Le Point https://ahvalnews.com/insulting-erdogan/turkeys-erdogan-files-criminal-complaint-against-french-magazine-le-point 4 comments europe
- Calling Bullshit | The Point Magazine https://thepointmag.com/2018/examined-life/calling-bullshit 5 comments philosophy
- [Slam Magazine] Dwight Howard is working hard on his 3 point shot- "Gonna be weird for people to see" https://twitter.com/slamonline/status/872445544009940993 16 comments nba
- German magazine Spiegel reacting to criticism about its cover of Trump beheading Statue of Liberty: Democracy is at the Tipping Point http://spon.de/aeu2k 5 comments politics
- Are there limits to what a magazine can publish? At what point has it gone too far? http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/02/europe/charlie-hebdo-italy-earthquake/index.html 6 comments philosophy
- NBA writers are trying to start a quarterly basketball magazine called Game Point. Check it out on Kickstarter https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/4meko6/nba_writers_are_trying_to_start_a_quarterly/ 7 comments nba
- Free Issue of The Point Magazine http://thepointmag.com/rip-tnr 3 comments books
- High capacity magazines from a liberal's point of view. http://www.thenewprogressive.com/high-capacity-magazines.html#.uuihhtgcxrq 8 comments politics
- NATURE magazine: Earth Facing Imminent Environmental 'Tipping Point' http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v486/n7401/full/nature11018.html 195 comments worldnews
- Time Magazine: Rush Limbaugh has a point on the BP oil spill. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2007202,00.html 11 comments politics
- "What's the point of devoting all of my free time to something so fleeting?" - Why I stopped being a sports fan. - Slate Magazine http://www.slate.com/id/2237640/ 10 comments sports
- Our governing elites are leading us over a cliff - Case in Point: Marc Benioff, owner of TIME magazine. https://time.com/7178872/agents-unlimited-age/ 97 comments futurology
- Online conversations point to doubts over Modi sarkar in year 2: ET Magazine-MavenMagnet study http://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/online-conversations-point-to-doubts-over-modi-sarkar-in-year-2-et-magazine-mavenmagnet-study/articleshow/52271950.cms 10 comments india
- Trump makes it to the cover of French magazine Le Point as "The Man from Moscow" https://journal.lepoint.fr/sommaire-2744 3 comments europe
- In Highly Connected Networks, There’s Always a Loop | Quanta Magazine - Leila Sloman | Mathematicians show that graphs of a certain common type must contain a route that visits each point exactly once https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-highly-connected-networks-theres-always-a-loop-20240607/ 17 comments math
- Hypergraphs Reveal Solution to 50-Year-Old Problem | Quanta Magazine | In 1973, Paul Erdős asked if it was possible to assemble sets of “triples” — three points on a graph — so that they abide by two seemingly incompatible rules. A new proof shows it can always be done. https://www.quantamagazine.org/hypergraphs-reveal-solution-to-50-year-old-problem-20220714/ 3 comments math
- Why Racing Point copied last year's Mercedes: F1's customer model - Motor Sport Magazine https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/single-seaters/f1/why-racing-point-copied-last-years-mercedes-f1s-customer-model 10 comments formula1
- ESPN put the gallery from their magazine's "body issue" (nude athletes, no genitalia) online. The entire USA women's water polo team poses nude in #9, but the best part is actually and everyone has stopped reading at this point so I'll just leave it at that. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/flash/zoomgallery?section=gen&photogalleryid=5650718 30 comments reddit.com
- Mathematicians Cross the Line to Get to the Point | Quanta Magazine | A new paper establishes a long-conjectured bound about the size of the overlap between sets of lines and points. https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-cross-the-line-to-get-to-the-point-20230925/ 10 comments math
- Andy Murray's beaten opponent on why Federer is greater than Djokovic, Otte told German outlet Tennis Magazin: ‘From my point of view, Federer is the greatest.' https://metro.co.uk/2021/07/01/andy-murrays-beaten-opponent-on-why-federer-is-greater-than-djokovic-14857990/ 99 comments tennis
- Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance On Old Problem | Quanta Magazine - Erica Klarreich | Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are all whole numbers. https://www.quantamagazine.org/merging-fields-mathematicians-go-the-distance-on-old-problem-20240401/ 10 comments math
- A Close-Up View Reveals the ‘Melting’ Point of an Infinite Graph | Quanta Magazine | Just as ice melts to water, graphs undergo phase transitions. Two mathematicians showed that they can pinpoint such transitions by examining only local structure https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-close-up-view-reveals-the-melting-point-of-an-infinite-graph-20231218/ 3 comments math
- A former soldier who struggled to save the children a US helicopter shot up in the Wikileaks-released video makes the point that a NYT magazine bio on Bradley Manning "erased" Manning's political motives. http://www.thenation.com/blog/161902/ethan-mccord-new-york-magazine-profile-bradley-manning-it-erases-his-political-motives 8 comments politics
- [ScuderiaFemboy] max to formule1 magazine: to be honest, twenty seconds is a lot. when pointed out five seconds per penalty is the standard max cynically said: “let’s make it twenty next year.” https://x.com/SCUDERIAFEMBOY/status/1850694646512652580 12 comments formula1
- Mathematicians Solve Long-Standing Coloring Problem | Quanta Magazine | A new result shows how much of the plane can be colored by points that are never exactly one unit apart. https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-break-bounds-in-coloring-problem-20230719/ 6 comments math
- New Number Systems Point Geometry Problem Toward a Real Solution | Quanta Magazine | The Kakeya conjecture predicts how much room you need to point a line in every direction. In one number system after another — with one important exception — mathematicians have been proving it true. https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-number-systems-point-geometry-problem-toward-a-real-solution-20220726/ 14 comments math