A few picks from the week:
5) Ben Orlin on polynomials and the 'playground of reason':
http://tinyurl.com/z2h83b8
6) Not math, but Terry Tao speaks out, essentially on America's flirtation with fascism (unfortunately the comments section is largely infiltrated by TrumpTrolls who I can only guess have some sort of visceral psycho-sexual attraction to Trump; at least I don't know how else to account for their support 8-/ ...would be interesting to learn how many of the responses emanate from a single computer, somewhere in, say, Trump Tower perhaps; depending what tracking software Terry uses for his blog he can likely pinpoint the sources of comments):
http://tinyurl.com/hr7uz6q
...and Scott Aaronson followed up on Tao's post here:
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2777
[p.s... I still think there's no more than a 50/50 chance that Trump will be running for President come the Fall, but IF he is, I presume many MORE scientists/mathematicians will, like Terry and Scott, join a STEM cavalcade speaking out.]
7) Robert Talbert on the growing research database regarding "flipped learning":
http://rtalbert.org/blog/2016/how-much-research
8) The always-interesting Steve Strogatz answering a lot of big questions:
http://www.businessinsider.com/steven-strogatz-interview-on-math-education-2016-6
9) Regular readers here know that if a new "Devlin's Angle" column is posted, I'm going to link to it (in this instance it's actually a revived 10-year-old piece from Keith, on "Infinity and Intuition"):
https://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/2016/06/infinity-and-intuition.html
10) Goodman, Fanelli, and Ioannidis on research reproducibility (h/t Deborah Mayo):
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/8/341/341ps12.full
11) ICYMI, early in the week I talked to the writer of some of the best, most-thoughtful math blog posts around, Jim Propp:
http://mathtango.blogspot.com/2016/06/jim-propp-enchanting-us-with-math.html
...and Evelyn Lamb wrote more beautifully than I could about Jim's blog a day later:
http://tinyurl.com/z6ett3x
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) Got a lot of chuckles from this initial oddball story in the "Prologue" plus "Act One" of last week's "This American Life":
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/588/mind-games-2016
2) Interesting bird story involving the role of expectation in human judgment:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/east-of-siberia-an-osprey-until-it-wasn-t/
1) Ubiquitous math communicator/author Marcus du Sautoy was on Jim Al-Khalili's BBC podcast "The Life Scientific" this week (27 mins.):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dlww4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dlww4
2) Petra Menz battles adversity to get math PhD. 21 years late:
https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2016/sfu-convocation-june-2016/love-for-math-trounces-adversity.html
3) A little statistics primer from Allen Downey (h/t Patrick Honner):
http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2016/06/there-is-still-only-one-test.html
...and a bit more heavyweight statistics (from Deborah Mayo/Daniel Lakens) on the ongoing debate over research significance tests:
http://tinyurl.com/zwoa3hr
4) Formulae generating primes:
https://thatsmaths.com/2016/06/09/prime-generating-formulae/
https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2016/sfu-convocation-june-2016/love-for-math-trounces-adversity.html
3) A little statistics primer from Allen Downey (h/t Patrick Honner):
http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2016/06/there-is-still-only-one-test.html
...and a bit more heavyweight statistics (from Deborah Mayo/Daniel Lakens) on the ongoing debate over research significance tests:
http://tinyurl.com/zwoa3hr
4) Formulae generating primes:
https://thatsmaths.com/2016/06/09/prime-generating-formulae/
5) Ben Orlin on polynomials and the 'playground of reason':
http://tinyurl.com/z2h83b8
6) Not math, but Terry Tao speaks out, essentially on America's flirtation with fascism (unfortunately the comments section is largely infiltrated by TrumpTrolls who I can only guess have some sort of visceral psycho-sexual attraction to Trump; at least I don't know how else to account for their support 8-/ ...would be interesting to learn how many of the responses emanate from a single computer, somewhere in, say, Trump Tower perhaps; depending what tracking software Terry uses for his blog he can likely pinpoint the sources of comments):
http://tinyurl.com/hr7uz6q
...and Scott Aaronson followed up on Tao's post here:
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2777
[p.s... I still think there's no more than a 50/50 chance that Trump will be running for President come the Fall, but IF he is, I presume many MORE scientists/mathematicians will, like Terry and Scott, join a STEM cavalcade speaking out.]
7) Robert Talbert on the growing research database regarding "flipped learning":
http://rtalbert.org/blog/2016/how-much-research
8) The always-interesting Steve Strogatz answering a lot of big questions:
http://www.businessinsider.com/steven-strogatz-interview-on-math-education-2016-6
9) Regular readers here know that if a new "Devlin's Angle" column is posted, I'm going to link to it (in this instance it's actually a revived 10-year-old piece from Keith, on "Infinity and Intuition"):
https://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/2016/06/infinity-and-intuition.html
10) Goodman, Fanelli, and Ioannidis on research reproducibility (h/t Deborah Mayo):
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/8/341/341ps12.full
11) ICYMI, early in the week I talked to the writer of some of the best, most-thoughtful math blog posts around, Jim Propp:
http://mathtango.blogspot.com/2016/06/jim-propp-enchanting-us-with-math.html
...and Evelyn Lamb wrote more beautifully than I could about Jim's blog a day later:
http://tinyurl.com/z6ett3x
Potpourri BONUS! (extra NON-mathematical links of interest):
1) Got a lot of chuckles from this initial oddball story in the "Prologue" plus "Act One" of last week's "This American Life":
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/588/mind-games-2016
2) Interesting bird story involving the role of expectation in human judgment:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/east-of-siberia-an-osprey-until-it-wasn-t/