Friday Math Miscellany

While Donald & Melania are busy sorting out their marital bliss, here's plenty of math bliss for the rest of us to attend to:

1)  Excellent TED Radio Hour last week on algorithms:

https://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/580617765/can-we-trust-the-numbers?showDate=2018-01-26

2)  Canning efficiency (mathematically speaking); h/t @MathematicsProf:

http://datagenetics.com/blog/august12014/index.html

3)  More teaching tips from someone named Fawn:

http://fawnnguyen.com/how-i-use-between-two-numbers/

4)  “Why Colleges Must Change How They Teach Calculus”:

https://theconversation.com/why-colleges-must-change-how-they-teach-calculus-90679

5)  3Blue1Brown looks at Fourier Transforms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY

6)  Who knew prime numbers could be THIS popular:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/31/c_136939569.htm

7)  Good or bad approach to ‘thinking outside the box’?:

http://www.newsweek.com/can-you-solve-it-bizarre-math-exam-question-leaves-students-scratching-their-796005

8)  A blogger picks out 5 must-see math TED talk videos:

https://lifethroughamathematicianseyes.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/5-ted-ed-videos-on-mathematics-you-have-to-watch/

9)  Mathematics Rising on math, information, and consciousness:

http://mathrising.com/?p=1554

10)  Moravec’s Paradox via DataGenetics:

http://datagenetics.com/blog/february12018/index.html

11)  Evelyn Lamb recounts her math doings & more for the month of January in her latest TinyLetter:
https://tinyletter.com/evelynjlamb/letters/stuff-evelyn-wants-you-to-read-13

12)  And if all that isn't enough reading material for you, plenty more in the latest (free) edition of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics here:

http://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol8/iss1/

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

1)  There are plenty of good pieces on Thomas Kuhn out there, and now another:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/scientific-revolutions-thomas-kuhn/

2)  Biotech continues advancing in leaps-and-bounds… $1000 hand-held gene sequencer now available:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetwburns/2018/01/29/handheld-device-gives-clearest-ever-view-of-human-genome-for-1000/#1e64b72836a5