Potpourri Time

And now for some math:

1)  Sphericons!:

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1012587894043750400

2)  Frank Harrell recommends this piece on Thomas Bayes’ work:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/thomas-bayes-science-crisis/

3)  “The Slippery Math of Causation” (via Quanta):

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-of-causation-puzzle-solution-20180629/

4)  Just sort of a fun tweet & comments:

https://twitter.com/J4CKMULL/status/1012841978650906624

5)  More selections via the 118th “Math Teachers At Play” blog carnival:

http://mathmamawrites.blogspot.com/2018/07/math-teachers-at-play-118.html

6)  New interview with John Horgan and Jim Holt:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/why-does-jim-holt-exist/

7)  Evelyn Lamb’s chockfull latest TinyLetter is out (reviewing what she wrote and read about in June):

https://tinyletter.com/evelynjlamb/letters/stuff-evelyn-wants-you-to-read-18

8)  An intro to mathematical constructivism from plus Magazine:

https://plus.maths.org/content/something-nothing

9)  I was expecting a slow week over at Math-Frolic, BUT, lo-and-behold, ended up with varied posts on Mon., Tues., Wed., Thur., AND Fri.! (inspired by fluid dynamics, a quirky room, a Calif. teacher ;), a contest, and Sean Carroll). So please check out whatever you missed!

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

1)  h/t John Carlos-Baez for this fascinating ‘bit’ of info:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-whats-deepest-hole-ever-dug-180954349/

2)  Longish, interesting piece on Tim Berners-Lee and today’s World Wide Web:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets