Another Friday, Another Math-mix

Week #17 of Trump’s looting-and-dismantling of America….

1)  From Quora last week, “What’s the most important thing happening in mathematics right now?”:

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-most-important-thing-happening-in-math-right-now

2)  Futility Closet presented the Thue-Morse sequence:

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/05/21/an-end-in-sight/

3)  “Pi Hiding In Prime Regularities”… another phenomenal presentation from Grant Sanderson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaL_Cb42WyY&feature=youtu.be

4)  Eugene Stern, guest-posting at Mathbabe blog, has some thoughts on value-added models for teachers:

https://mathbabe.org/2017/05/22/eugene-stern-how-value-added-models-are-like-turds/

5)  R. Talbert once again on flipped learning and his new book:

http://rtalbert.org/ihe-interview/

6)  A big “Math Teachers At Play” blog carnival for May:

http://mathhombre.blogspot.com/2017/05/math-teachers-at-play-108.html

7)  “One of the real old chestnuts of mathematics,” the Goldbach Conjecture, newly presented by Numberphile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxiTG96QOxw

8)  Getting to the point that a potpourri without something from Evelyn Lamb is a rare event… and it won’t happen this week:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/what-does-compactness-really-mean/

9)  And lastly, in the quirky math news dept., Fields Medalist Cedric Villani has been nominated as a candidate for the French legislature:

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/the-cheat-sheet/cedric-villani-and-the-future-of-science-in-politics/article9705880.ece

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

1)  ICYMI, Jerry Coyne on the latest ‘Sokalized’ effort to make the rounds:

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/05/19/a-new-academic-hoax-a-bogus-paper-on-the-conceptual-penis-gets-published-in-a-high-quality-peer-reviewed-social-science-journal/

2)  Terry Gross had a fascinating interview with Pulitzer writer Tom Ricks this week:
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/22/529516184/churchill-orwell-and-the-fight-against-totalitarianism

…lastly, I’ll just leave this here for any who’ve missed it along the way: