Friday Potpourri

 First, a note that Sunday morning, here, I'll have up my review of Jordan Ellenberg's new volume, "How Not To Be Wrong" -- hint: (like everyone else) I loved it.

 Now, some recent math links:


1) Math professor Dan Rockmore argues the case for banning laptops from the classroom:
http://tinyurl.com/obtfzzv

2) I'm often taken by surprise by which tweets I do get significantly re-tweeted. This week one by Cliff Pickover, regarding pi, was popular:
https://twitter.com/pickover/status/444533534284189696/photo/1

3) New podcast from Sol Lederman, with David Reimer, interesting author of "Count Like An Egyptian":
http://wildaboutmath.com/2014/06/07/david-reimer-inspired-by-math-35/

4) The 111th Carnival of Mathematics appeared last week full of its usual variety:
http://boolesrings.org/krautzberger/2014/06/08/carnival-of-mathematics-111/

5)  Oftentimes, mathematical puzzles have ramifications in other fields, as in this news report about the four-color theorem and crystal structure:
http://phys.org/news/2014-06-four-color-theorem-linked-crystal-magnetic.html

6) A bounded gaps update and other polymath projects:
http://cp4space.wordpress.com/2014/06/01/bounded-gaps-one-year-on/

7)  Alex Bellos' latest book, "The Grapes of Math" is newly-available in US:
http://tinyurl.com/nutompp

8) From xkcd (channeling Fermat):
http://xkcd.com/1381/

9) Lastly, my own latest rant about "truth-in-labeling," courtesy of Coca-Cola:

http://math-frolic.blogspot.com/2014/06/pomegranate-blueberry-juice-not.html