And What Have You've Been Doing During Lockdown?

Some folks, it would appear, may have a wee bit too much free time on their hands...:

'Arbitrary thresholding' and Statistical Practice

Black-and-white thinking and p-values... a recent post (and comments) from Andrew Gelman's blog:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/24/banishing-black-white-thinking-a-trio-of-teaching-tricks/

Sudoku Frenzy

OK, for all ye Sudoku buffs out there, 2 incredible Sudoku puzzles passed along by Ben Orlin on Twitter (no, really, incredible puzzles):

Siobhan Roberts Returns With More...

You probably think you've read enough about him by now, but yet another fantastic Siobhan Roberts' piece on John Conway in today's NY Times (ought not be missed):

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/science/john-conway-math.html

ADDENDUM:  ...and a day later, Jim Propp adds his own personal memories/experience to the mix:
https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2020/05/16/confessions-of-a-conway-groupie/

Peeping Through a Keyhole

"Peeping through my keyhole I see within the range of only about thirty percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some little ultraviolet, perfectly apparent to many animals, but invisible to me. A nightmare network of ganglia, charged and firing without my knowledge, cuts and splices what I do see, editing it for my brain. Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. 'This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.'"

                                             -- Annie Dillard ("Pilgrim At Tinker Creek")