Toy Models - Tadashi Tokieda
Would you like to see some toys? 'Toys' here have a special sense: objects of daily life which you can find or make in minutes, yet which, if played with imaginatively, reveal surprises that keep scientists puzzling for a while. We will see table-top demos of many such toys and visit some of the science that they open up.

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Toy models, Tadashi Tokieda | LMS Popular Lectures 2008

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Tadashi Tokieda - Magic with a ribbon, paperclips, rubber bands

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How AI Cracked the Protein Folding Code and Won a Nobel Prize

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How to Use Math to Get Rich in the Lottery* - Jordan Ellenberg (Wisconsin–Madison)

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Perplexing Paperclips - Numberphile

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Politics Chat, June 25, 2026

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AI Is Creating A Rare Opportunity For Investors. How Jim Roppel Is Playing It. | Investing With IBD

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Math Encounters -- Toy Models: Extracting Mathematical Surprises from Everyday Life

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Topology & Geometry - LECTURE 01 Part 01/02 - by Dr Tadashi Tokieda

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A world from a sheet of paper - Tadashi Tokieda

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Mathematical Research from Toy Models - Professor Tadashi Tokieda

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Unexpected Shapes (Part 1) - Numberphile

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A world from a sheet of paper

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Four Ways of Thinking: Statistical, Interactive, Chaotic and Complex - David Sumpter

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Interview| Bloomberg Technology Special

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The Hardest Questions in Physics | World Science Festival

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Topology & Geometry - LECTURE 01 Part 02/02 - by Dr Tadashi Tokieda

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Surprises from rubbing the wrong way - A public lecture by Tadashi Tokieda

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How do fish swim so quickly?

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