Another Veek of Math Links... You're Velcome

Lest you missed them:

1)  A message from an Iowa teacher... that some others can probably relate to:
http://shawncornally.com/wordpress/?p=4097

2)  "Solve My Maths" blog wants to 'take back the F-word':
http://solvemymaths.com/2015/03/31/taking-back-the-f-word/

3)  A John Conway puzzle via Futility Closet:
http://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/04/08/overheard-4/

4)  Mathematician Jason Rosenhouse looks at good, and not-so-good, writing:
http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2015/04/08/on-bad-writing/

5)  Interviews with a couple of math-crowd favorites from last week:

a)  A brief transcribed interview with Steven Strogatz here:
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.3022

b) ...and a 30-minute podcast interview with Jordan Ellenberg at ACME Science:
http://www.acmescience.com/2015/04/scc56ellenberg/

AND, in more good news for Jordan, he was just awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship! CONGRATS and well-deserved! -- one of only two mathematicians, the other being Tatiano Toro, to receive the award, which more heavily goes to recipients in the arts/humanities.

6)  Another review/update of the twin-prime conjecture proof (which, if one other conjecture is assumed true, is now down to a gap of 6):
https://plus.maths.org/content/find-gap

7)  And thoughts, from Minhyong Kim, about Mochizuki's ABC conjecture proof, via John Baez:
https://plus.google.com/117663015413546257905/posts/d1RsN4KnCUs

8)  Uhhh, "prime number magnitudes" are kinda big:
http://mathscinotes.com/2015/04/prime-number-magnitudes/

9)  The future of big data????
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-numbers-really-speak-themselves-big-data-john-poppelaars


10)  I'll bet Mike Lawler worked on some math this week:   
https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/

11)  And heads-up for  PBSNova show, "The Great Math Mystery" (math, invented or discovered?) coming up this Wednesday:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/great-math-mystery.html

 

Meanwhile, Sunday morning, right here, Math-Frolic Interview #30 will be posted, and appropriately for such an auspicious #, it will be with one of the premier math writers currently on the Web.


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

1)  Eric Meade, in a segment from last week's TEDTalkRadio, on the art of magic:
http://www.npr.org/2014/06/20/322537247/how-do-magicians-manufacture-reality
Reminds me of this older Ricky Gervais/David Blaine clip (not necessarily for the squeamish):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLAs11gkqKE

2)  And to close out the week, a feel-good animal story:
https://www.thedodo.com/elephant-reunion-video-thailand-1078233173.html