A Few Picks From the Week

Some math I looked at whildst surviving week #27 of the Trumpian cesspool (now headed to a grand jury):

1) John Baez is turning his sights on biology, and in turn chemistry:

https://plus.google.com/+johncbaez999/posts/hhyzhu1mB7F

2)  A little bit on graph theory and Ramsey numbers:

https://theconversation.com/this-math-puzzle-will-help-you-plan-your-next-party-80256

3)  A lot of cool responses/comments to a question Grant Sanderson posed on Twitter this week:

https://twitter.com/3Blue1Brown/status/892955297748099072

4)  A relatively new (couple months old) statistics blog here:

http://www.statsathome.com

5)  Tim Gowers’ efforts to “flip” journals, paying off:

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2017/07/27/another-journal-flips/

6)  Patrick Honner recaps the problems with the NY State Regents Math Exam:
http://mrhonner.com/archives/17804

7)  Okay, not much math here, but I just enjoy statistician Gelman when he’s peeved at psychology:

http://andrewgelman.com/2017/07/31/letter-editor-perspectives-psychological-science/

8)  Episode 2 of Kevin Knudson/EvelynLamb's "My Favorite Theorem" podcast, with Dave Richeson:
https://kpknudson.com/my-favorite-theorem/

9)  Need more math enjoyment?:

Evelyn Lamb’s monthly reading suggestions for your pleasure here:

http://tinyletter.com/evelynjlamb/letters/stuff-evelyn-wants-you-to-read-7

…and the new “Carnival of Mathematics” here:

http://hardmath123.github.io/carnival-of-mathematics-148.html

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

1)  Yet another science podcast debuted this week (“Methods”) with 3 episodes right off the bat:

http://methods.libsyn.com/website

2)  A new map of the Universe's dark matter:
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-40817897