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Ten Irreligious Questions in 3 Quarks Daily
How Math Can Defeat Bullies, excerpt from book in The Atlantic
My “twitter war” with Neil deGrasse.
Some Wonderful Responses to A Numerate Life
How the Conjunction Fallacy and Confirmation Bias Make Fake News Credible, in Slate
The Mathematical Case for Hypocrisy, in Slate
The Bush Presidency Was My Fault, in Salon
Radio Times interview with Marty Moss-Coane on WHYY(NPR)
Blogging Heads TV interview with Glen Whitney of the Museum of Math
Justifiably Believing That Something Is True Doesn’t Mean You Know it, in 3 Quarks Daily
We’re Reading the Coronavirus Numbers Wrong, OpEd in the New York Times
Curiosities
harmonic thoughts
The David Letterman Show
Tom Lehrer on the New Math
“an extensively kudized author”
My Erdos number: I co-authored “Truth Tables And Inference Rules” along with Hugues Leblanc and George Weaver, Reports On Mathematical Logic, 1977. Fortuitously Weaver co-authored a paper with Ralph Mckenzie, who co-authored a paper with Saharon Shelah, who co-authored a paper with Paul Erdos. This gives me an Erdos number of 4! That’s four, not four factorial.
Science, science, science
Celebrity Bios Amazing Miracles
Baseball in Tokyo
Sheila and I near Chiang Mai, Thailand
A Little Puzzle
Each of the six expressions – 8y, 6x, 8z, 7w, 7x, 6w – will disappear when focused upon. Stare at one and check below to see if the occult ocular software has guessed your choice.
Wow, 2015 Is a Palindromic Year, Equals 11111011111 in Binary
“Illuminati” quotes Check out the fourth one; I won’t debunk. 😉
Twitter “War”” – Neil deGrasse Tyson and John Allen Paulos
Lewis Carroll and Mathematical Ideals of John Allen Paulos
Mathematics and Humor: John Allen Paulos and the Numeracy Crusade
Ten Verbal Brain Scans
