Potpourri of the Week

During week #20 of Donald Trump’s Emperorship:

1)  A new math/statistics blog from a graduate stats couple:

http://www.statsathome.com

2)  What are complex numbers… I mean, really? (h/t to Jim Propp for this one):

http://robjlow.blogspot.com/2017/06/what-is-this-thing-called-i.html?m=1

3)  “The illegitimate open-mindedness of arithmetic”… (h/t to Joselle Keyhoe):

https://blog.oup.com/2017/05/open-mindedness-arithmetic-philosophy/

4)  Coordinate planes as only Ben Orlin would fancy them:

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017/06/14/life-in-coordinate-planes/

5)  Another commentary on math giftedness (h/t Cathy O’Neil):

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2017/06/12/what-it-truly-means-to-be-gifted.html

6)  Another post on p-values and fake science results (h/t Stephen John Senn):

https://blog.oup.com/2017/06/suspected-fake-results-in-science/

7)  Correlation vs. causation in “genome-wide association studies” (h/t Daniel Engber):

https://www.nature.com/news/new-concerns-raised-over-value-of-genome-wide-disease-studies-1.22152

8)  Gödel comes to Twitter, sort of:
https://twitter.com/fermatslibrary/status/875340896379817984/photo/1

9)  I blurbed about a new book anyone into cryptograms will want to have:

https://mathtango.blogspot.com/2017/06/for-alan-turing-wannabes.html

…and on Wed. I passed along some puzzles:

https://math-frolic.blogspot.com/2017/06/puzzles-to-while-away-time.html

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

1) The fascinating case of a former polygraph operator last week on This American Life:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/618/mr-lie-detector?act=0#play

This story actually comes from another great Web podcast series: Love + Radio 

http://loveandradio.org

2)  Last week’s TED Radio Hour included a replay of a favorite old segment with Mike Lowe explaining people’s success with “dirty jobs”:

http://www.npr.org/2013/11/01/240780579/are-people-with-dirty-jobs-the-most-successful

And as long as I’m pushing podcasts, may as well remind folks that NPR’s wonderful “Invisibilia” is back for its third season:

http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510307/invisibilia