Cheeses and Theorems

Hiking The World In Search Of Rare Cheeses

Madison Chapman | BBC | 12th October 2026 | U

Cheesemaker hitchhikes to remote parts of the world documenting rare cheeses and methods. “The cheeses I find are always far out, made by hermit types sticking to the old ways out of sheer stubbornness.” A place whose cheese has been overlooked? “Hands down, Turkey. Tulum peyniri is aged mainly in furry goatskins, so it looks insane because it can take on animal shapes. It was phenomenal” (2,300 words)

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The Four Colour Theorem

Louis Anslow | Pessimists Archive | 12th October 2026 | U

In 1976, the Four Colour Theorem solved a long-standing mathematical problem. It stated that no more than four colours are required to colour the regions of any map so that no two adjacent regions have the same colour. The authors had used a computer to run 10 billion decisions for the solution. It launched a debate about “proof without reasoning”: is a mathematical proof still valid if it is un-surveyable? (1,300 words)