The Math Keeps Comey, er, I mean Coming

Some of the math bits from week #19 of Donald Trump’s attempted lockdown of democracy:

1)  The latest Carnival of Math is ready to entertain and elucidate you here:

https://www.peterkrautzberger.org/0194/

2)  Lie groups, E8, and communicating cutting edge math to the public:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/math-has-no-god-particle/

3)  Squared squares from Numberphile and James Grime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoRjwZomUK0&feature=youtu.be

4)  An intro to Zipf’s Law:

https://plus.maths.org/content/statistics-language

5)  A new social media (“Mathstodon”), specifically for math buffs:

http://blogs.ams.org/blogonmathblogs/2017/06/08/twitter-but-for-math-with-toots/

6) “statistical evidence for research misconduct,” via Andrew Gelman:

http://andrewgelman.com/2017/06/07/bombshell-statistical-evidence-research-misconduct/

7)  Here’s another review of what is so far my favorite popular math volume of the year:

https://plus.maths.org/content/mathematics-lovers-companion

8)  Mathematics and the real world of near-misses (yet another fun read from Evelyn Lamb):

http://nautil.us/issue/49/the-absurd/the-impossible-mathematics-of-the-real-world

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

1)  The always-interesting physicist Brian Greene with Krista Tippett on “On Being” last week:

https://onbeing.org/programs/brian-greene-reimagining-the-cosmos-2/

2)  Some heavy discussion from Scott Aaronson and a sh*tLOAD of commenters on reductionism/causation/emergence:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3294