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What I wrote
- On our podcast My Favorite Theorem, my cohost Kevin Knudson and I talked with math communicator and letter-folder extraordinaire Katie Steckles about the fold-and-cut theorem and science writer Yen Duong about the math of cocktail parties. Yen and I both started our science writing careers with a mass media fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. If you or someone you know is interested in science writing, the fellowship is a great way to get a foot in the door!
- If mathematicians were in charge of punctuation, there would be brackets around everything.
- There is a family in Michigan with 14 children, all boys. That is a lot of boys, for sure, but is it statistically anomalous? I crunched some numbers.
- For #womencomposerswednesday, I shared music by Björk/Tanya Tagaq, Carol Barnett, Tanya Tagaq/Christine Duncan/Jean Martin, and Elsa Barraine. (I’m really into Tanya Tagaq right now.)
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