Potpourri

From the past week:

1)  Presh Talwalkar offers up a semi-classic logic problem:

http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2016/10/09/the-mind-twisting-logical-list-riddle-sunday-puzzle/

2)  Tadashi returns to Numberphile with some shoelace knotology:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY69D3PSmIk

3)  There's a new 'Gathering For Gardner' ("Celebration of Mind") rapidly approaching  ~Oct. 21, Martin Gardner's birthday:

http://www.celebrationofmind.org/wordpress_site/?page_id=113

4)  Ben Orlin touched a nerve when he argues in favor of public over private education this week:

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016/10/12/why-competitive-marketplaces-are-an-awkward-fit-for-education/

5)  Great Quanta longread (from 4 great writers) on four math and science teachers:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161011-math-science-teachers/

6)  More p-value discussion:

https://aeon.co/essays/it-s-time-for-science-to-abandon-the-term-statistically-significant

...and a more technical piece:

http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2566171

7)  Another mathematician reporting that the math that turns so many off in school, is NOT real math:

http://ow.ly/dM5o3056pYT

8)  More on algorithms and big data:

https://theconversation.com/how-mathematics-can-fight-the-abuse-of-big-data-algorithms-66065

9)  The importance of mathematics, past and future, via Keith Devlin:

http://devlinsangle.blogspot.com/2016/10/it-was-twenty-years-ago-today.html

10)  New (pricey) book for serious logicians/philosophers-of-math, "Gödel's Disjunction":

http://amzn.to/2dKnY0D

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

1)  For anyone deeply-entrenched in linguistics, this long David Berlinski piece on Chomskyean fare:

http://inference-review.com/article/the-recovery-of-case

2)  It's gone viral so am sure you've already seen it, but that won't stop me from including such a great song put to great use:

[...blogging may continue to be light next several weeks, while I watch the U.S. Presidential campaign in utter disbelief!]