Potpourri

It's week #22 of America-as-a-global-laughingstock, and, here's a li'l math:

1)  Interview with Aussie mathematician David Roberts:

http://aperiodical.com/2017/06/the-curious-mathmo-talks-to-david-roberts/

2)  A former child prodigy writes about the movie “Gifted” and being a math prodigy (h/t Jordan Ellenberg):

https://ilaba.wordpress.com/2017/06/24/gifted-while-female/

3)  Recommended books on game theory (h/t Emmanuel Derman):

http://fivebooks.com/interview/ariel-rubinstein-on-game-theory/

4)  The Futility Closet podcast this week paid tribute to Paul Erdös:

http://ow.ly/UIsp30cTe7G 

5)  Confidence intervals and other statistical ranges:

http://statisticsbyjim.com/hypothesis-testing/confidence-prediction-tolerance-intervals/

6) John Baez reports on “Cleo”:

https://plus.google.com/+johncbaez999/posts/9mCF43cqvSn

7)  Another wonderful math profile (from Quanta):

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-path-less-taken-to-the-peak-of-the-math-world-20170627/

8) Robert Talbert on problems with the definition of “flipped learning”:

http://rtalbert.org/how-to-define-flipped-learning/

9)  New from Numberphile, mathematics vs. physics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6rfpQXzXu0

10)  Latest "Bulletin of the AMS" here (h/t Steve Strogatz):

http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2017-54-03/

11)  Gelman on Ioannidis and published research findings:
http://andrewgelman.com/2017/06/29/lets-stop-talking-published-research-findings-true-false/
...and his own followup post here:
http://andrewgelman.com/2017/06/29/lets-stop-talking-published-research-findings-true-false-2/

12)  Latest podcast from "Relatively Prime" is all about communicating mathematics:
http://relprime.com/talkingthetalk/

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

1)  I've been rather distracted this week by a likely June 9th abduction case in central Illinois (near my original hometown) that gets odder as time goes on:

https://math-frolic.blogspot.com/2017/06/time-of-essence.html