This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading.
What the left is doodling.
What the right is doodling.
Reader essay.
This week, we received this feedback in an email responding to our edition on lab-grown meat: “Just a minor numerical note: you mentioned that there has been a 308% decrease in investment in lab-grown meat from 2022 to 2023. However, it's impossible for any quantity to decrease by more than 100% without becoming negative. From looking at the report you linked, it looks like it was actually a 75.5% decrease.” That came from Elias Leventhal, a graduating high-school senior with an interest in math. But Elias wasn’t always captivated by math, and he has some criticisms about K-12 curriculums. He shares those criticisms, his suggestions for improvement, as well as his story of how he came to love math outside of school in this week’s ready essay. You can read the piece here!
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Reader review.
In this section, we like to include reader responses that counter opinions we publish in the newsletter, or include viewpoints we didn’t cover. On Israel's Rafah invasion, prolific commenter Derrick White added his doubts about dealing with Hamas to return hostages during a potential ceasefire: