Some Remnants From the Week

1)  A little history of 'Question Number 6' from a 1988 Math Olympiad (h/t Egan Chernoff):

http://www.sciencealert.com/the-legend-of-question-six-one-of-the-hardest-maths-problems-ever

2)  Colm Mulcahy reviews Ken Ono's 'Ramanujan' volume:

http://cardcolm.org/Pics/2016_11%20Horizons%20Mulcahy.pdf

...also from Colm this nice tribute to George Boole (on the occasion of his 200th birthday this week):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/colm-mulcahy/george-boole_b_8447686.html

3)  RJ Lipton and KW Regan's fun post for Halloween:

https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2016/10/31/halloween-math-style/

4)  Samantha Schumacher with a wonderful post about a recent White House panel on 'math and the movies':

https://socialmathematics.net/2016/11/01/math-and-movies-white-house-panel/

5)  Rotten-to-the-core? Andrew Gelman again on social science research:

http://andrewgelman.com/2016/11/01/rotten-all-the-way-through/

6)  New puzzle book on the way from Alex Bellos (available in UK now, not 'til next year in U.S.):
http://amzn.to/2egWTPl

7)  Lot of fun geometry over several posts from Mike Lawler this week:

https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com

...speaking of geometry, an area problem from "Solve My Maths" this week:

https://solvemymaths.com/2016/11/02/area-problem-25/

...and from "Maths By a Girl" still more interesting geometry:
https://mathsbyagirl.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/unsolved-problems-part-i/

8)  Some interesting musing (about scientific progress) here from Lance Fortnow (and commenters) toward end of week:
http://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2016/11/do-we-still-need-great-minds.html

9)  And I departed entirely from math earlier in the week to talk of STEM and politics (or should I say demagoguery):

https://math-frolic.blogspot.com/2016/10/vote-like-future-and-that-of-science.html

Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):

1)  A slight cautionary tale about one sort of genetic testing:
https://www.statnews.com/2016/11/03/genetic-testing-fitness-nutrition/

2)  NPR's TED Radio Hour replayed one of the most remarkable stories I've ever heard on the radio (have cited it here before); that of Daniel Kish, who taught himself a sort of human sonar (that he teaches to others) to "adapt" to his blindness:

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/20/455906507/how-can-you-see-without-seeing