Math Incoming...

Another week, another math potpourri:

1)  Keith Devlin overviews "A Brilliant Young Mind" for NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2015/09/12/439727420/love-multiplies-at-a-math-olympiad-in-brilliant

2)  Last weekend Mike Lawler favorably pointed out something called "Idea Math" that I had not heard of:
http://www.ideamath.org/

Mike references it in this post: 
https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/revisiting-lines/

...I also enjoyed hearing about a meeting Mike reported on where Cathy O'Neil spoke (among his many posts this week):
https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/harvards-gender-inclusivity-in-mathematics-talk/

3)  Tim Gowers interviewed in MAA's "Math Horizons":
http://t.co/eCY5JsHRX3

4)  From last weekend, Crystal Kirch's list of helpful links for teachers from the prior week (and she should have a new list up this weekend):
http://flippingwithkirch.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-best-articles-resources-ive-found_13.html

5)  Robert Krulwich covers Tyler Vigen's wonderful "Spurious Correlations":
http://tinyurl.com/p5fp632

6)  An oddball cryptographic find at Futility Closet this week (is there a logical, deductive answer?):
http://www.futilitycloset.com/2015/09/14/heart-and-head/

7)  Meanwhile, Ben Orlin continues honing his skill at making me laugh (and not easy getting me to chuckle over trig):
http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2015/09/16/13-trig-functions-you-need-to-memorize-right-now/

8)  Speaking of chuckling, I only discovered this "Wayward Algebra" blog this week, and it's worth some chortles:
http://waywardalgebra.tumblr.com/

9)  Another (as usual) fascinating post from Fawn Nguyen on her teaching, well, grading techniques (including a great little 'problem of the week'):
http://fawnnguyen.com/giving-feedback-with-a-highlighter/

10) The "Breakthrough Junior Challenge" prize got quite a bit of coverage this week, but in case you missed it, The Aperiodical gets you up-to-date:
http://tinyurl.com/pd7wshf
...and site for the prize here:  https://www.breakthroughjuniorchallenge.org/ 

11)  Here is the paper that just won the 2015 Ig Nobel prize for mathematics:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0085292

12)  Numberphile does it's aways fine job of introducing folks to math philosophy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA2cdHLKYB8&feature=youtu.be

13)  I linked to a couple more reads in my prior MathTango post dealing with science and research:
http://mathtango.blogspot.com/2015/09/research-good-sometimes-often-bad-andor.html
...and Sunday here I'll be recommending a couple more recent books, so do come back then.

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

1)  Great article from "The Verge" on the war for dominance (to the death?) between Google, Facebook, and Apple:
http://tinyurl.com/nzt3xs4

2)  An interesting piece on bucket-drumming! (...yup, I said bucket-drumming):
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/14/9323365/bucket-drumming