The Friday Math-mix

Week #21 of the Trump/Putin takeover:

1)  Something different from the unpredictable James Propp this month:

https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2017/06/16/reading-writing-and-rigor/comment-page-1/

…speaking of Jim, he recently won a noble prize (well, seems noble to me anyway), writing about dinosaurs:

https://www.uml.edu/News/stories/2017/ProppBAHFest.aspx

2) The tale of a ranking (guest post at mathbabe.org):

https://mathbabe.org/2017/06/19/guest-post-quatama-elementary/

3)  A little mix of statistics, science, and philosophy (via Daniel Lakens):

https://daniellakens.blogspot.nl/2017/06/verisimilitude-belief-and-progress-in.html

4) Robert Talbert gives an overview of flipped learning and self-regulated learning:

http://rtalbert.org/flipped-learning-srl-connections/

5)  The double life of mathematician/football-star John Urschel (h/t Egan Chernoff):

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607988/the-double-life-of-john-urschel/

6)  Tiling with Koch snowflakes (h/t John Baez):

https://dkwise.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/fun-with-the-koch-snowflake/

7)  Followup to the Anna Haensch “refrain-from-discussing-mathematics” sign/tweet that went viral last week:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-edition-1.4167415/the-story-behind-that-connecticut-deli-math-sign-1.4169424

8)  A podcast with statistician David Spiegelhalter:
https://80000hours.org/2017/06/podcast-prof-david-spiegelhalter-on-risk-statistics-and-improving-the-public-understanding-of-science/

9)  A highlight of my week was interviewing professor/author Ed Scheinerman:

https://mathtango.blogspot.com/2017/06/ed-scheinerman-seeing-masterpieces-in.html

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

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