Uncertainty Rules...

 Siobhan Roberts on epidemiology, uncertainty, and covid:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/15/1037195/engineering-epidemiology-pandemic-problem-solving/

Fun Times... Gather For Martin!

 Gathering For Gardner talks all week long starting Monday:

https://www.gathering4gardner.org/g4gs-celebration-of-mind-2021-10/

Hey Bayesians, What Were the Chances? ;)

 https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1045990641/meteorite-canada-british-columbia-bed

Thinking Outside the Box (...well, sort of)

 Oh, we'll revisit Futility Closet today, this time for "Airy's Paradox":

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/10/08/order-3/

Don't Believe Your Eyes

 A nice geometric illusion from Futility Closet:

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/10/07/a-geometric-illusion/

Poetry Combinatorics

 So you say you always wanted to write sonnets, well....

https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2021/09/30/a-hundred-thousand-billion-poems/

A Grim Paradox

 You've likely heard of Thomson's Lamp paradox (or you can look it up), but have you heard of the Grim Reaper paradox:

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/10/02/the-grim-reaper-paradox/

Drugs and People, Duhhh

 People's genetics and metabolism differ... this is such an obvious truism that it's kind of a shame articles like this even need to be written... but folks prefer thinking along binary, all-or-nothing, black-and-white lines, instead of in terms of continuities and nuances, so yes it needs be said aloud:

https://theconversation.com/why-prescription-drugs-can-work-differently-for-different-people-168645

'Self-organization in Nature'

 Ooooh, sandpile math (via J. Ellenberg)... fascinating:

 https://nautil.us/issue/107/the-edge/the-math-of-the-amazing-sandpile

Carnival of Math

 An array of mathy readings again from this month's Carnival of Math:

https://hardmath123.github.io/carnival-of-mathematics-198.html

Terry Tao Tackles Probability and Risk

 Proposing a unit of measurement of risk:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2021/10/03/nines-of-safety-a-proposed-unit-of-measurement-of-risk/

The "Extreme Ordinariness" of Prodigies

Of genius and childhood:

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/10/01/youth-and-genius/

Jo Boaler with Lex Fridman

 Math educator Jo Boaler recently spent 90 minutes with Lex Fridman on his podcast:

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

The Paradox That Splits Philosophers Down the Middle (Newcomb's)

 Alex Bellos on Newcomb's paradox:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2016/nov/28/newcombs-problem-divides-philosophers-which-side-are-you-on