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The sunflower seed pattern used by the National Museum of Mathematics contains many spirals. If you count the spirals in a consistent manner, you will always find a Fibonacci number (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, …).
Fibonacci Numbers of Sunflower Seed Spirals – National Museum of Mathematics
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There was built-in exclusivity, as some design houses create unique dust covers for particular products. The covers are emblazoned with the brand’s name — Gucci, Prada, Balenciaga, Chanel — and sell for $65 to $150.
Masks Are Here to Stay. And They’re Quickly Becoming a Way to Express Ourselves.
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I asked him how I could improve my batting average. He said, “Hit ’em where they ain’t.” Dad was echoing the words of Wee Willie Keeler, the smallest man in the history of baseball. At only 5'4" and 140 pounds, Keeler amassed a streak of 200-hit seasons that lasted from 1894 to 1902, and after 19 years in the major leagues he retired with a lifetime batting average of .347. What’s more, he did it with a bat not much bigger than the one my father bought me when I was five. How? He used brains instead of brawn. He learned how to find the spaces between the fielders.
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