Friday Wrap-up...

This week's eclectic mix:

1)  Funny words... involve math (and why not, pretty much everything else does) (h/t John Golden):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMfpw5us_7Y

2)  You may be interested in taking up Jason Rosenhouse's offer to send you his latest paper via pdf:
http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2016/02/12/happy-darwin-day/

3)  Peter Woit has some links to more info about Grothendieck in this post:
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=8311

4)  The 131st "Carnival of Mathematics" posted earlier in week with its usual variety:
http://aperiodical.com/2016/02/carnival-of-mathematics-131/

5)  Another remarkable Numberphile video from Tadashi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuuYFt8bahE&feature=youtu.be

6)  Last weekend Mike Lawler had a long, chock-full post about Common Core and sharing math with kids:
https://mikesmathpage.wordpress.com/2016/02/14/sharing-math-from-mathematicians-with-the-common-core/

7)  If you like some physics mixed in with your math, this piece from plus Magazine on "Symmetry Making and Symmetry Breaking":
https://plus.maths.org/content/symmetry-making-and-symmetry-breaking

8)  I was VERY pleased to see that Michael Harris' "Mathematics Without Apologies" recently won a PROSE Award in the 'Mathematics' category. This was my 2nd favorite book for all of 2015, and it is a rich volume evoking fresh thoughts/ideas with every re-reading:
https://mathematicswithoutapologies.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/disorganized-snobs-want-to-know/

9)  Gotta love Futility Closet's almost-always succinct math puzzles -- easy-to-state, tricky to solve... like this one from yesterday:
www.futilitycloset.com/2016/02/18/pip-squeak/

10)  Evelyn Lamb writes about (and seeks further information on) Black mathematicians in this AMS posting:
http://tinyurl.com/jpad378

...speaking of which here's a new Anthony Bonato piece on John Urschel:
http://tinyurl.com/joy3zg4

11)  Dylan Kane reflects (or perhaps meta-reflects) on the 'why and how of learning math,' everyday language... and throwing future teachers under the bus:
 https://fivetwelvethirteen.wordpress.com/2016/02/18/affirmation/
  

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

1)  ICYMI, the story of the California hospital that just paid a ransom to free its computers from ransomware:
http://tinyurl.com/hp49hqj

2)  10 finalists for the million-dollar Varkey Foundation Global Teacher of the Year award have been announced:
http://www.globalteacherprize.org/2016-finalists

(the list includes 2 Americans, Joe Fatheree and Michael Soskel) 
Congratulations and good luck to all ...and I have no friggin' idea why Fawn Nguyen isn't on this list :-((