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Elina Vessonen

Researcher and Circus Teacher, Helsinki, Finland

Elina Vessonen is a researcher and a circus teacher. She has a PhD in philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge and lives in Helsinki, Finland.

Written by Elina Vessonen

A gymnast in a purple leotard mid-performance, captured with a motion blur effect, showing multiple overlapping images of her movement.

Thinking and intelligence

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Hula hooping is not mindless, it is bodily problem solving

There are surprising similarities in the way mathematicians do their work and the way hoop dancers devise new tricks

by Elina Vessonen