A Few Bits From the Week

The "I really don't care, do u?" edition of the Friday math potpourri:

1)  Some discussion of statistics, and cause-and-effect (…and a recent book); h/t Frank Harrell:

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/06/pearl-gray-statistics-causality-claims-difficult-swallow.html

2)  Prime numbers, kids, and math education:

https://medium.com/@sunilsingh_42118/prime-numbers-their-general-exclusion-from-math-education-is-inexcusable-8a30241406b1

3)  Some cool geometry from Patrick Honner, involving squares, points, and colors:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-numbers-and-geometry-behind-a-math-coloring-puzzle-20180618/

4)  Jim Propp on James Tanton’s “exploding dots”:

https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2018/06/16/why-does-exploding-dots-work/

5)  Andrew Gelman on Sabine Hossenfelder’s new book, “Lost In Math”:

http://andrewgelman.com/2018/06/20/quest-beauty-lead-science-astray/

6)  And the latest effort from wacky cartoonist Len Robin:

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018/06/20/math-explained-through-anagrams-2/

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

1)  In case you didn’t hear already, Koko the Gorilla died this week:

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/622160278/koko-the-gorilla-dies-redrew-the-lines-of-animal-human-communication

2)  Finally, just because it's been one of those weeks:

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”  

      ~ E. Burke

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