Friday Potpourri

While the Appeaser-and-Chief was working out a few details for a new Trump Tower Pyongyang, I compiled another weekly collection of math bits:

1)  A potpourri within a potpourri… the latest Carnival of Mathematics blog carnival is out:

http://aperiodical.com/2018/06/carnival-of-mathematics-158/

2)  A recent video interview with Ed Frenkel:

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

3)  Math, science, engineering… and origami (via Erik Dermaine):

https://blogs.ams.org/capitalcurrents/2018/06/07/origami-meets-math-science-and-engineering/

4)  Brief interview with Eli Maor, author of “Music By the Numbers”:

http://blog.press.princeton.edu/2018/06/12/eli-maor-on-music-by-the-numbers/

5)  “Statistics — the Rules of the Game”:

https://justindomke.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/statistics-the-rules-of-the-game/

6)  Just a little quickie commentary about commentary (…and causation):

https://adamdrake.com/market-commentary-correlation-and-causation.html

7)  The Mediterranean Diet, clinical studies, randomization, oh my…:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/06/13/619619302/researchers-soften-claim-that-mediterranean-diet-prevents-heart-attacks?live=1

8)  Economist Gary Smith, who I interviewed last week, has a new column for Marketwatch on the probability of a good company becoming a great company… and, the Feynman trap:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-great-companies-dont-always-make-good-stocks-2018-06-13

9)  Set theory for second graders:
http://mathmisery.com/wp/2018/06/14/set-theory-for-second-grade/

10)  Meanwhile, early in week I was enamored of Jim Holt:

https://math-frolic.blogspot.com/2018/06/on-jim-holt-kick-and-rfi.html

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

1)  Physicist Frank Wilczek with Krista Tippett on “On Being”:

https://onbeing.org/programs/frank-wilczek-why-is-the-world-so-beautiful-jun2018/

2)  Just what we all need at the end of a long week, more street posters:
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2013/05/03/30-amazing-street-posters/