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Hundreds of trans people, activists and supporters rally outside of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C ...

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How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...