The Crime is Shown
Greetings! My daughter says "awww shunks" instead of "shucks," because she is four and the world is glorious.
Here you go:
I tried to find order in the chaos of leading a whole-class discussion that gets everybody involved.
And if you want a list of everything I wrote in 2021, you can find that here.
I was supposed to start writing another book in 2021, but I couldn't get it together. Maybe in 2022?
If I want to become a smarter reader of research in the coming year, maybe I'll read "The Effect," a free textbook on research design by Nick Huntington-Klein. Fixed effects shows up a lot!
Problem. For how many prime numbers p, is the expression 2 to the p-power + p-squared is a prime? (Click through for a solution.)
This wonderful video from 3Blue1Brown on Numberphile explains how a single probability question can seem to have three different answers. In short: not always easy to figure out how to choose something randomly.
This week I learned what a howcatchem is: "An inverted detective story, also known as a "howcatchem", is a murder mystery fiction structure in which the commission of the crime is shown or described at the beginning," says wikipedia.
When home with my kids and my attention badly depleted, I find it helpful to keep a bunch of books around. Books I have enjoyed recently, not necessarily finished: "Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God," by Etgar Keret; "Life's Edge" by Carl Zimmer; "Big Time" by Jen Spyra.
Music-wise, Soto's list of ELO songs has me listening to "Shine a Little Love," which Soto describes as "[Jeff] Lynne doing ABBA doing disco, or perhaps ABBA heard ELO’s use of strings and thought, “Hm…”"
Two great collections of cartoons, from Li Chen and Asher Perlman.
Good luck! Be in touch.
-Michael