Friday, January 12, 2018

The Friday Weekly Grab-bag


While Trumpie was kept busy all week laundering money, I put together another Friday potpourri, in-between washing tie-dye T-shirts:

1)  Last week’s TED Radio Hour (on NPR) re-ran a popular entertaining excursion into numbers and math (and includes Randall Munroe):

2)  Interesting take on leaving the Langlands program:

3)  Nice introduction to some very basic statistics concepts and uncertainty:

4)  Peter Cameron on bees, Bayer, and publication:

5)  Andrew Gelman on ‘randomized controlled trials’ (…as if there is such a thing):

6)  20+ introductory videos on statistics from the “Statistics Learning Centre”:

7)  A listing of (mostly British) math podcasts you may enjoy:

8)  A tribute to John Cook upon a decade of blogging:

9)  A new episode of the “My Favorite Theorem” podcast is up:

11)  Finally (because there is most certainly math involved), science journalist learns poker from scratch and wins national championship:

…perhaps worth noting, some may want to follow along the ongoing Joint Math Meetings in San Diego through tomorrow, on Twitter or Facebook with hashtag #JMM2018

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

1)  Interesting piece, a bit ago, with philosopher Peter Unger:

2)  You either are or are not a Jerry Seinfeld fan… if you’re the former you’ll enjoy this audio interview with the New Yorker:



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