Linkfest

... 51 years ago, this weekend, three young civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were brutally murdered during an ill-fated trip to Mississippi. In light of the past week's further solemn events in the American South, I feel a need to reach back momentarily to this mid-60's tribute from Paul Simon to Andy Goodman:



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Now, on to the week's mathy stuff you mighta missed:

1) "The language of insignificance"... more p-value discussion courtesy of Andrew Gelman:
http://andrewgelman.com/2015/06/13/the-language-of-insignificance/

2)  In time for the NBA finals (well, now over) the "hot hand" streak discussed:
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8719731/hot-hand-fallacy

3)  Nature, behavior, and mathematics, from "Mathematics Rising":
http://mathrising.com/?p=1286

4)  "Some statistical dirty laundry" (via Deborah Mayo):
http://errorstatistics.com/2015/06/14/some-statistical-dirty-laundry-the-tilberg-stapel-report-on-flawed-science/

5)  Last weekend's RadioLab re-played a segment with Steve Strogatz (with an assist from Sesame Street) explaining some of math's foundations (first ~14 mins. below):
http://www.radiolab.org/story/161758-break-cycle/

6)  Jordan Ellenberg and Matt Parker discuss some basic math... or, is it philosophy... on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/rT1sIVqonE8

7)  And here, the ubiquitous Ellenberg writes about "Common Core" for the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/opinion/meet-the-new-common-core.html

...finally (talk about ubiquitous), here is Jordan, or one of his clones, on Bloomberg Business this week:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-06-18/each-dot-represents-an-economist-s-forecast-ellenberg

8)  The story of mathematicians (who are often "crotchety old people") hoarding a specific brand of chalk (that has now gone out-of-business). Who knew...:
http://gizmodo.com/why-mathematicians-are-hoarding-this-special-type-of-ja-1711008881

9)  Submissions to the latest "Carnival of Math" are here:
http://mathematicalmysterytour.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/carnival-of-mathematics-number-123-part_17.html

10)  Will just note that one of my favorite 2015 books, "Single Digits" (by Marc Chamberland), which I reviewed back in March, is just this month showing up widely in bookstores.

11)  H/T to Dave Richeson this week for linking to this wonderful, old posting of the "World's shortest explanation of Gödel's theorem" (from Raymond Smullyan):
http://blog.plover.com/math/Gdl-Smullyan.html

12)  And Mike Lawler has at east 5 posts this week you can catch up on at:
https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/ 

13)  Will close out with this recent geometry problem from "Solve My Maths":
http://solvemymaths.com/2015/06/18/concentric-circle-problem/



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

1)  In time for Father's Day this Sunday, "This American Life" re-ran this older, touching story of a daughter and her father who may be a tad communicatively-challenged:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/438/fathers-day-2011?act=2#play

2)  And what the heck, as long as I'm on "This American Life," I'll cite another of my all-time favorite episodes, going all the way back to 2001, chronicling the Jarvis family:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/177/american-limbo?act=1#play