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Trending today: an article in Biology magazine about bees’ ability to expand the size of their hexagonal hives in the most mathematically efficient way – a problem that’s vexed human mathematicians for years and years. Elsewhere, a study finds the U.S. produces 80 percent of the world’s pecans – though whether that fact is surprising or unsurprising is up to you. (Also, Victor has a weird dislike of Biology magazine. Still not sure what’s going on there.)

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