Potpourri Time

A few from the week:

1)  Andrew Gelman back on p-values:

http://andrewgelman.com/2017/01/07/we-fiddle-while-rome-burns-p-value-edition/

2)  The Riemann Hypothesis gets wonderful exposure to a wider lay audience with this great Medium piece:

http://tinyurl.com/gwzkt5f

3)  Another month, and another “Carnival of Mathematics” here:

http://www.ganitcharcha.com/view-article-Carnival-of-Mathematics-141.html

4)  John McGowan looks at a career in data science:

http://math-blog.com/should-you-get-started-in-data-science/

5)  Pi in different metrics from PBS’s “Infinite Series”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ineO1tIyPfM&feature=youtu.be

6)  Ben Orlin on mathematics and arithmetic:

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017/01/11/why-are-mathematicians-so-bad-at-arithmetic/

7)  Steven Strogatz on eigenvectors and eigenvalues... and Google:

https://soundcloud.com/edwardoneill/steven-strogatz-on-teaching-eigenvectors-and-eigenvalues

8) Tracy Zager has a book out “Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had.” Read about it here:

https://www.stenhouse.com/content/becoming-math-teacher-you-wish-youd-had/

…and she has an ongoing project collecting autobiographical sketches of math teachers as well, you can keep up with here:

http://tjzager.com/forums/topic/math-autobiographies/

9)  IF you had $3 million to spend on math:
https://www.sunclipse.org/?p=2250

10)  ICYMI, a busy week at Math-Frolic touching upon interviews, a puzzle, student loan debt, Francis Su, and some news in AI.

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

1)  The always-interesting Ed Yong on some not-so-modern medical devices:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/button-spinner-health-care/512549/

2)  Daniel Everett on “Chomsky, Wolfe, and Me”:

https://aeon.co/essays/why-language-is-not-everything-that-noam-chomsky-said-it-is