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Men's small atom t-shirt
$25.89
What makes the ideal t-shirt? Three things: neutrons, protons and electrons. We're positively certain you won't feel negative about this design. Buying from us directly supports our charitable activities, such as support to engage with science for disadvantaged schools.
Women's our galaxy t-shirt
$25.89
Part of The Digital Collection at the Royal Institution. Inspired by the work of our team behind our record-breaking YouTube channel! Celebrate your love of science with our 1.3 million subscribers today. Buying from us directly supports our charitable activities, such as support to engage with science for disadvantaged schools.
Fitted Pride Collection t-shirt small logo
$25.89
Celebrate pride Ri style with our new for 2024 pride collection! We're committed to championing diverse voices within science throughout the year. We believe that science is for everyone, and are committed to ensuring that everyone feels safe, represented, and welcome within the sciences.
Kids' Schrödinger's cat t-shirt
$19.42
No cats were harmed in the making of this design! In quantum mechanics, Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment that illustrates a paradox of quantum superposition. A hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur. Buying from us directly supports our charitable activities, such as support to engage with science for disadvantaged schools.
Women's Pi(e) hoodie
$58.24
I don't know about you, but we're a bit peckish... Enjoy a tasty slice of pi(e) with this new mathematics inspired design! Pi is one of the most well-known mathematical constants and is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. For any circle, the distance around the edge is a little more than three times the distance across. Buying from us directly supports our charitable activities, such as support to engage with science for disadvantaged schools.
Men's small atom t-shirt
$25.89
What makes the ideal t-shirt? Three things: neutrons, protons and electrons. We're positively certain you won't feel negative about this design. Buying from us directly supports our charitable activities, such as support to engage with science for disadvantaged schools.
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Four Dimensional Maths: Things to See and Hear in the Fourth Dimension - with Matt Parker
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2015Feb 25
Matt Parker, comedian and mathematician, shows how four-dimensional shapes appear in a 3D world in this hands-on talk, featuring what is possibly the world's nerdiest knitted hat! Subscribe for weekly science videos: http://bit.ly/RiSubscRibe Buy Matt's book "Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension" - https://geni.us/M2MIA Discover how to make love hearts from Mobius strips, 4D frames from drinking straws and pipe-cleaners, and other maths tricks in this entertaining talk by Matt Parker. Matt explains how to know when someone's throwing a 4D cubes at you and also what happens when your mum knits a three dimensional shadow of a four dimensional donut - to wear on your head, in this fun talk on the challenges of visualising the fourth dimension. Matt Parker was an Australian school teacher before he moved to London where he works as a stand-up comedian and a maths communicator. He writes books, appears on radio programmes and TV shows, contributes to newspapers, makes school visits and gives live comedy shows. This event took place at the Royal Institution on Tuesday 27 January 2015. The Ri is on Twitter:   / ri_science   and Facebook:   / royalinstitution   and Tumblr:   / ri-science   Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://bit.ly/RiNewsletter Our editorial policy: http://www.rigb.org/home/editorial-po...

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