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Happy Easter! I’m not a particularly religious adult, and I have no kids, so I signed up for weekend blogging duty this Sunday. That was a mistake. So far, it’s been an extraordinarily quiet news day. So, while my editor and I wait for something newsworthy to happen, and many of you paint eggs, hunt for eggs, or otherwise engage with this delicious protein source, please allow me to tell you about Egg Math.

Egg Math is an internet concept that went viral late last year, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since. As TikToker @vancouver.dieticians explains in a now-viral video, “Egg Math” means that the number of eggs someone can eat before they get grossed out depends on the form of the egg. So you might be able to easily eat a three-egg omelet, but not three whole hard-boiled eggs or three fried eggs. Baked goods, according to Egg Math, count as zero eggs. “You can have as many as you want.” Similarly, in........

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