Manifolds and Sudan

What Is A Manifold?

Paulina Rowińska | Quanta | 3rd November 2025

An accessible primer. “Standing in the middle of a field, we can easily forget that we live on a round planet. We’re so small in comparison to the Earth that from our point of view, it looks flat. The world is full of such shapes, ones that look flat to an ant living on them, even though they might have a more complicated global structure. Mathematicians call these shapes manifolds” (1,800 words)

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How To Write About Sudan

Yassmin Abdel-Magied | Good Chat | 2nd November 2025

“Treat Sudan as if it were one homogenous place. Sudan is made up of 18 states, 50 million people and over 70 indigenous languages. Ignore this. Describe what is happening as a “civil war”. The audience will be most comfortable when the Sudanese are seen to be killing each other like unthinking savages, rather than for common reasons like territorial and resource acquisition, political power” (1,800 words)