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Matt Parker's Snowflake Crusade →
English standup comic and mathematician Matt Parker @standupmaths has started his own twitter snowflake campaign. Welcome to the global movement!
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Send your examples!
We’re always keen for new examples of designer snowflake disasters… submit, email or tweet (#snowflakefail) anything you’ve found and we’ll add it to the list.
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Paper Snowflake Pattern Generator →
On the one hand you say that snowflakes have six side but you still insist on encouraging people make 8-sided snowflakes… AAARRRGGGGHHHH
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This snowflake is all skin and bones →
draw your own snowflakes using this fun flash HTML 5 tool
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8-sided snowflakes make scientists cry →
8-sided snowflakes make scientists cry… do your part to help the scientists
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Save a Snowflake for Decades  →
Create a lasting cast of nature´s perfect crystals with a drop of chilled superglue via @PopSci
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Snowflakes on Christmas Cards Drawn Wrong →
By Jeanna Bryner Via LiveScience In pop culture depictions, snowflakes are usually drawn inaccurately, an expert now says. Snowflakes are six-cornered, rather than the four-, five- and eight-cornered crystals typically depicted in children’s books, Christmas cards and even in an ad for a science magazine…
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What's Wrong With This Snowflake? →
by Jon Hamilton via NPR During the holiday season we see images of lots of stuff not found in nature: flying reindeer, sugarplum fairies, and geometrically incorrect snowflakes. Now, Thomas Koop, a chemist, is trying to fix the snowflake problem. Koop thinks ice crystals are masterpieces of natural beauty. Unfortunately, he says, “This beauty is sometimes corrupted.”… Via
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Listenvia @cbcquirks - not only can no two snowflakes be...
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