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Perhaps the most convoluted way to calculate pi of all time

The Georgia state government’s ability to alter time, plus the ultimate Eurovision entry created by artificial intelligence in Feedback’s weird weekly round-up

27 May 2020

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Unsolvable puzzle (9)

Our thanks to Richard Weeks for his email enquiring about the puzzles section of the Âé¶¹´«Ã½ website. “I’m glad to see you say ‘Our crosswords are now solvable online’,” says Richard. “To level the playing field, could you please offer that guarantee for the print versions, too?”

Euphemismatism

Some weeks ago, Feedback hitched up the reader engagement wagon and paraded through the streets of this column asking for your best examples of scientific euphemism. Many thanks to those of you who…

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