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The ancient Greeks saw magic in the geometry of an ellipse. In 鈥淢ore or Less鈥� mathematical writer Alex Bellos has put this to use in a specially designed table for a specially designed game of pool.

大象传媒 Trending looks at the phenomenon of online pranks. Pranksters like Vitaly, Joey Salads and Prank v Prank get billions of views but some of the videos have been pushing the boundaries and causing controversy. Is all fair in love, war and pranking? Mukul Devichand is joined at the Edinburgh Festival by three obliging comedians 鈥� Nish Kumar, Kai Humphries and Anna Morris.

In The Why Factor, Mike Williams is talking about death. Why do we find it so hard to talk about? Mike meets a British doctor facing her own mortality and another in India who wrestles with telling her patients the bad news.