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What I wrote
- My Favorite Theorem, the podcast Kevin Knudson and I cohost, turned 1 year old in July, and we’re still happily chugging along. We are so grateful to the wonderful guests we’ve had and of course our listeners. In July, we shared episodes featuring Ken Ribet and Ingrid Daubechies. The latter episode forced me to make a very tough decision: when making possessive a word that ends in a silent s, do you use just an apostrophe or an apostrophe s? You’ll have to click through to find out which one I chose!
- Highly scientific suggestions for optimal s’mores-making, for Smithsonian. I did an experiment with water in a thermos to find the specific heat of melted marshmallows for this article. It got pretty messy.
- The International Congress of Mathematicians is taking place right now in Rio. I wrote about Stephen Smale doing math on the beaches of Rio and the role he played in the history of the Fields medal, which is awarded at the ICM.
- The bouquet of n circles did me a big favor in grad school.
- For #womencomposerswednesday I shared music by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Carmen Barradas, Elizabeth Baker, and Judy Hauff.
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