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Nerdmas Advent Calendar Day One!
Do you feel as strongly as
@standupmaths
about street signs conforming to the geometry of our universe? Open this door to find out...
#nerdmas
#AdventCalendar
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If scientists had logos. (via
@Perimeter
)
http://t.co/vj4s6oRS6D
@AsapSCIENCE
via
@quantumIQC
http://t.co/fboAV4R8vx
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Wherever you are, whoever you're with (and whoever you're apart from) we're wishing you a Very Nerdy Christmas from
@helenarney
@moulds
and
@standupmaths
.
Here's hoping for a better 2021!
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It's PODCAST LAUNCH DAY!
Find the brand new A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail wherever you get your podcasts! 🤓
Or find out more & listen here:
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What better way to mark the festive season than by making paper snowflakes? Fortunately for the nerdily-inclined,
@standupmaths
has created scientifically-accurate (and slightly ranty) instructions...
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When
#TauDay
falls on a
#ThrowbackThursday
, it would be INCREDIBLY rude not to share the great
@MouldS
vs
@standupmaths
Tau-Pi fight of yesteryear! 👀
Will they continue the argument tonight at
@artsdepot
?? Only one way to find out: fotsn.comdvdrecord
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Put your hands up if you like a graphic laugh or two! Just For Graphs DVD, download & VHS (yes!) available now
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We are 10 years old!
That's right, our first show with
@standupmaths
@helenarney
@moulds
as Festival of the Spoken Nerd was 10 years ago this month. 🎉
We can't have a party, so instead all our DVDs and downloads are £π (£3.14) at 📀🤓
#FOTSN10
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Happy Tau Day everyone! It's 6.28 and we are celebrating the second most mathematical date of the year (although
@MouldS
thinks it's the first...)
Today at the Nerd Shop, get two of our comedy specials on DVD for just Tau pounds each - including free downloads of all three! 1/4
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Today's top discovery: four-year-old internet craze 2048 has a Numberwang variation!
#ThatsNumberwang
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"Hello Hannah"!
Our favourite mathematician (don't tell Matt) is doing this in London next Thursday.
Algorithms! Data! Potential Live Birth!
Next Thursday is one of your last chances to see my Hello World talk before I retire it from public lectures
It's a year old now, so I've got all the jokes DOWN.
Plus I'll be 8 months pregnant which'll make for an exciting evening if you like jeopardy..
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When are cornflakes impossible? Steve explores the breakfast-cereal limitations of a four-circle Venn diagram.
Plenty more diagram-chart-graph based comedic Nerdity in
#JustForGraphs
, available now in download, DVD and
#VHS
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BREAKING NEWS FOR
#DomesticScience
FANS! We just heard that
@BBCRadio4
want another series - thank you, all you listeners!
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KLAXON: We are playing the
@RoyalAlbertHall
!
NOT the little room upstairs. THE BIG AUDITORIUM. In an amazing line-up put together by
@robinince
@Cmdr_Hadfield
@cosmicshambles
.
It’s Friday 15th June. Cancel your other plans.
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So, can anyone beat the scenes of extreme Nerdiness (courtesy of
@geofftech
) lurking behind Door Twenty-Four of the Nerdmas Advent Calendar...?! 🤓😱
#Nerdmas
#AdventCalendar
#NerdingToTheMax
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Our very own
@standupmaths
has arrived! And he's waving a floppy disk on stage! 💾😀
This is peak
#AnEveningOfUnnecessaryDetail
#AEOUD
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Got a spare 40 minutes? STRONGLY recommend you spend it watching
@themonkeycage
100th episode TV special, too packed full of fun Nerdy stuff to fit into 280 characters, but can *definitely* confirm that
@robinince
has a good eye for relish!
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So.... this is the secret thing we were honking on about all of last week... somehow we've booked a 1,200 seat West End theatre in November... so we can announce...
"An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail" at London's Cambridge Theatre on Mon 20th Nov! 🤓🤓🤓
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Who knew there were so many possibilities with a
#Sudoku
?
More ponderings on non-mathematical recreational activities in
#JustForGraphs
, out now in a wide variety of formats 📀 🖥️ 📼
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Wishing you a safe, happy & nerdy holidays wherever you are in the wold!
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RIP Stephen Hawking. A huge inspiration in the fields of theoretical physics and science communication, knocking down barrier after barrier. We’ve also lost a legendary sense of humour:
Sad that Stephen Hawking has died. But remember that he held a party for time travellers on the 28 June 2009 if any people of the future want to meet him. 12:00 UT 52° 12 21" N, 0° 7 4.7" E.
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We've been pretty quiet here recently, but behind the scenes
@helenarney
@moulds
@standupmaths
have been busy plotting our next live show.
Here's a hint to join our email list by Friday morning for a preview announcement JUST for mailing listers... 👀
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So,
@standupmaths
refused to make a DVD that didn't have binary subtitles
http://t.co/DUNCMwm1W5
http://t.co/T7oEVyPFt0
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Another guest star (more accurately: stars) appearing at our bumper "Best Of An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail" show on Thursday 25 July is
@allthestations
!
AKA
@geofftech
&
@VickiExplores
, with a 10-minute tale of touring every station in Ireland.
Tix
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Well, did we have a good time last night or what?
Thank you to the over 1200 of you who came out on a Monday night to watch a group of nerds share an extraordinary level of detail!
What were your best bits?
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Delighted to have been immortalised in cross-stitch form by the multi-talented
@stecks
!
#StitchyNerds
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We made it to No.1 in the Kindle ebooks best sellers !! Thanks to all who have bought it, and to those that havn't you have 25 mins left to grab the most bargainous book today for a mere 99p.
Some happy nerds are off to bed now.
#ElementInTheRoom
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Need we say any more?
Come see
@standupmaths
at An Evening of Unnecessary Detail on 15th October!
In-person
Online
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Little-known fact about
#ElementInTheRoom
; you can play a fun game of "Spot the
@jimalkhalili
" as you read!
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Some of you might be excited to hear that we're recording another new episode of
#APodcastOfUnnecessaryDetail
this afternoon, as we pull together Series 2 for 2022.
Any guesses what we're talking about from these ISO symbols?
#APOUD
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🤣
⚾️🎾⚽️🎱
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It's quite tricky to draw a valid five-way Venn, and when you have, you need some good-quality data to demonstrate its validity...
Tons more diagrams, charts, plots & graphs in
#JustForGraphs
on
#DVD
, download &
#VHS
- plus a T-shirt of this very diagram!
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Since listening to PRIMED AND READY, listener Jeff S has found each of us a prime based on our twitter profile photos!
Each number is 4096 digits and written in base 10, although they don’t make use of all ten digits.
First up is
@standupmaths
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FAO
@MouldS
I’m gigging at the Science and Media Museum in Bradford tonight and, just to give you a peek behind the magician’s curtain of a science museum, this microwave is in their staff too and the labels are very necessary
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If you're signed up to our email newsletter, you MIGHT want to go check your inbox and spam folder right now...
If you're NOT signed up, you MIGHT want to go to and do it, while checking our "Buy Tickets" page for a streamy little announcement...👀👀👀👀
Home | Festival of the Spoken Nerd
Comedy for the insatiably sci-curious
festivalofthespokennerd.com
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Hey nerds!
Looks like our new podcast is in at No. 32 on the iTunes Comedy charts after one day... AMAZING!
But we're three places behind Russell Brand... who wants to to help us leapfrog him into a hallowed top 30 place?
Subscribe and download it now!
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Helen, Steve and Matt.
We will take no furthers questions at this time.
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Oh blimey! That
@geofftech
only went and persuaded 200 lovely people to go stand in a field in the shape of the London Underground tube map...
See here for actual proof:
Round of applause to everyone involved in this ludicrous stunt! 👏
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So the ace
@jimalkhalili
appears three times in our new book
#ElementInTheRoom
- go spot him in your copy next week
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You can now access all of Richard Feynman's physics lectures for free.
http://t.co/visLCYiCUX
http://t.co/FRh1FoA6OP
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Thank you
@RoyalAlbertHall
for letting us rig a pie from your 147 year old roof... it survived!
Thank you Royal Albert Hall
#spaceshambles
audience! We calculated π to be 3.17 with expert assistance by
@Cmdr_Hadfield
. (photo by
@Discombenulated
) Come see a ¼ scale pi-endulum at
@FOTSN
DVD recording, 27,28 June London.
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Nerds! If you haven't seen this video from
@bechillcomedian
, you should remedy this error now.
(If you want the science, Bec's mixing Mondegreens with flip charts - what you see with your eyes affect what your hear with your ears. Though don't need science to know it's funny!)
This one finally hit its first million views over on Facebook! No, I do not regret anything.
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Our very own
@standupmaths
will be MCing both
#AEOUD
shows next month!
If you want even more Matt, he's also doing 4 solo shows in April in Norwich, Cambridge, Cheltenham & London
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We've just added two new "Nerd" tees to our
@teemillstore
: one in Binary, and one in Non-Binary
(OK, so the second one is in Hex, but it's
#LGBTQIASTEMDay
today so get on board with the nomenclature, people!)
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This is extremely satisfying...
Cancellation of Momentum:
A ball is fired at 50 mph, out of a cannon from a truck that is going at 50 mph. The two momenta cancel each other and in the Earth reference frame the ball has 0 momentum.
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Ooh, we're
@Londonist
Pick Of The Week for our
@bloomstheatre
shows on Thu+Fri!
They are both INSANELY stellar line-ups of detail-focussed nerds and comedians, inc
@allthestations
@soozaphone
@rialina_
@bechillcomedian
@seb_ly
plus host
@standupmaths
.
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Our new co-producer is the legendary
@HanaAyoob
- you might have seen her on stage already, and now from April she'll be running it all backstage too. She really knows her nerds!
Co-producing
@FOTSN
’s awesome An Evening of Unnecessary Detail with the brilliant
@helenarney
from this month onwards!
Looking forward to massively increasing my intake of unnecessary detail this year 😂
#AEOUD
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Here is a poem involving the Fibonacci sequence to celebrate
#WorldMathsDay
from our favourite poet
@brian_bilston
http://t.co/WhFsNJsqcw
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People just cheered their heads off at the mention of π.
That's just the kind of gig this is...
#aeoud
#aneveningofunnecessarydetail
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What a show!
Thank you to all of the audience, the performers, the
@Ri_Science
for hosting us and of course, the balloon on the floor for being the main character in tonight's show!
What a ridiculously good time had by all!
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This is the kind of twitter unnecessary detail we can all get on board with...
I'm a planetary scientist with published papers specifically on Saturn's atmosphere/rings, so thought it'd be fun to rank the "Ringed Planet" emojis🪐
First I'm gonna assume they're trying to be SATURN ok, so I'll be ranking their accuracy based on that. Results end of thread!👇
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End-of-decade "Spot The Difference" competition!
How have
@helenarney
@standupmaths
and
@moulds
changed since our first photoshoot, nearly 10 years ago?
Our account is off twitter for most of January 👋
Until our next
#AEOUD
at
@Backyard_Comedy
on Tuesday 28th anyway...
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Have we mentioned we have a podcast?
If you haven't listened to the 1st season yet, you can catch up and find a whole load of unnecessary detail here
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The story behind this week's maths meme 🤓
#MathsTeachersAreTheBest
#IncludingExMathsTeachers
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Very please to report to
@standupmaths
that Spot The Dog supports geometrically accurate football illustrations ⚽️
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Festive gift idea: For the sweet-toothed maths-lover in your life, there's literally "proof in the pudding" bowls:
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On 9th June at
#CheltSciFest
,
@standupmaths
'll be hosting the festival's Variety Night. Expect a smörgåsbord of scientifically-verified entertainment!
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Helen can't be at
@UnderbellyFest
tonight but don't worry, the show goes on - with extra Matt and Steve!
@standupmaths
@MouldS
#YCPAN
#ExtraMattAndSteve
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There are snippets from You Can't Polish A Nerd on
@standupmaths
&
@MouldS
's YouTube channels...watch out for the inevitable minor Pi vs Tau spat!
Matt's video is HERE and Steve's is HERE
#YPCAN
#Pi
#Tau
#OnlyOneWayToFindOut
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Binary and Klingon subtitles, anyone? Full Frontal Nerdity from £π
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Babelfish is here!
Google's new smart earbuds can translate more than 40 languages in real time as conversations happen
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Hey nerds! Tell us your favourite element (and why), and we'll DM you a preview sampler of our first book 📗
#ReadABookDay
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As flowcharts go, this is pretty splendid - how to name animals in German. Oak croissant, anyone? Cheers to
@JohnErik_Jordan
for sorting out the Gürteltier from the Truthahn...
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For all at Hammersmith Apollo last 2 night... Here's how to make a mini toroidal vortex cannon from our January show:
http://t.co/OkVbknW6CI
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If you like any combination of
@standupmaths
, Douglas Adams and the number 42, then this celebration of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on
@Radio4Extra
will be right up your intergalactic superhighway:
!
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AAAAAND WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
@j1a1b2c2
has spotted our podcast episode acrostic and is the first to tweet us about it.
@standupmaths
@MouldS
@helenarney
@jondharvey
let’s shower this person with gifts/gifs!!!
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Matt is still bouncing around...
New prime found by
@PrimeGrid
! 919444^1048576+1 has 6,253,210 digits making it 2nd largest known non-Mersenne prime.
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We were having so much fun we completely forgot to tweet about it...
Our first new material night for nearly 3 years, and
@ri_science
were the perfect venue for a perfect audience.
Shall we do it all again some time?
What a night! So good to have An Evening of Unnecessary Detail back again!
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What happens when maths goes awry?
@standupmaths
explores a world of calculation cock-ups in Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors. Furious typing happening now, and out in November!
Pre-order here ▶️ (UK) & here ▶️ (US)
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New podcast episode is out!
@standupmaths
exposes false advertising in the Jigsaw Puzzle industry,
@MouldS
matches up what we know about the immune system &
@helenarney
writes a new tune that fits an old song
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HAPPY π DAY NERDS!
In case you missed it,
@MouldS
helped with
@standupmaths
's Pi Day video this year!
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For everyone asking whether we will be back with a live show any time soon...
...the answer is now a resolute YES! We're back on 26 Feb at
@Ri_Science
with a bumper edition of "An Evening Of Unnecessary Detail"
Tickets available now!
We're going to be back for one night of An Evening of Unnecessary Detail at the
@Ri_Science
this Sunday 26 February. Nine performers, one bar, all detail.
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Geoff is one of the supreme leaders of transport nerdkind! If you don't already follow
@geofftech
and his
@allthestations
channel with
@norwegiancheese
and you'll fill your boots with train facts (oh and their new book is out in the Autum too...) 🚂🚈🚃🚝💯
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If you're wondering where we all are this weekend, here's a tiny clue...
@standupmaths
@moulds
and
@helenarney
all hit Huntsville, Alabama for
@ThinkerCon
today! Give us a yell if you're going to be there too 🙌
#thinkercon
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Are you free tomorrow in the daytime? Are you in London? Go see
@stecks
at Greenwich Maths Time with the bonkers 2 metre tall
@mirrorpillar
. Our
@helenarney
will be there too
Details over here:
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Over the moon to learn that the Banana Equivalent Dose featured in the
#AQAphysics
GCSE paper today! Delighted to be suppliers of
#AccidentalRevisionMaterial
🍌
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Thank you lovely
#aroud
audience, as always your performance was stellar! Plus top stuff from
@standupmaths
@helenarney
@MouldS
@y_ohene
@rialina_
@hancam14
@kyledevans
@SimonDWatt
and
@geofftech
. Also the flawless
@hannahroza
on the tech desk!
See you all at the next ones...
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