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Wrong, But Useful

Wrong, But Useful

A monthly Science podcast featuring Colin Beveridge and Dave Gale
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A monthly Science podcast featuring Colin Beveridge and Dave Gale
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In this, the final episode of WBU, @reflectivemaths and I discuss: @samuel_hansen's antiracism post((get well soon, Samuel)). Dave and I both assert that Black Lives Matter and acknowledge that we have a significant amount of work to do to crea
In this, the penultimate episode of Wrong, But Useful, we’re joined by @karenshancock (who is Karen Hancock in real life). We discuss: A scoring system for an online quiz round. The Big Mathoff What is a surd? Currently reading Ratio by Michael
In episode 78 of Wrong, But Useful, we're joined by @c0mplexnumber, who is Clarissa Grandi in real life. This month, we discuss: Clarissa's Artful maths books, available via Tarquin - the activity book and the teacher's guide Number of the podc
In this month's Pi Day Special episode, we're joined by @aap03102, who is Chris Smith in real life. We discuss: Negative primes Surdoku (look in issue $2^5$) Chris's dark past Chalkdust book of the year Book (or writing) ideas (I’m trying to co
What's this? Didn't we have a WBU last week? We did indeed. Only we cut out a section of our conversation with @dr_teeluck about APR to keep the episode length (somewhat) reasonable. Here it is as a special bonus episode for your enjoyment.The
In this episode of Wrong, But Useful, we’re joined by @dr_teeluck, who is Dr Vijay Teeluck in real life. We discuss: sunrise (posts by @colinthemathmo and by me got the same answer, someone else disagrees, nice thing to explore) favourite numbe
In episode 75 of Wrong, but Useful, we talk with @astrastefania, who is Stefania Delprete in real life. We discuss: Dreams about Maths and doing Maths in lucid dreams Goodreads maths reading challenge Newsletters I like: Stuff Evelyn Wants You
It’s time for the @BigMathsJam Wrong, But Useful! @stecks (Katie Steckles): Brouwer’s Fixed Point Theorem: “they said it’s a theorem, so I’ve got to believe it.” Mentions @jamesgrime. @christianp (Christian Lawson-Perfect): ordering cards to ge
In this month's episode of Wrong, But Useful, we talk to @AJMagicMessage, who is Andrew Jeffrey in real life, and one of the driving forces behind Maths Week England, which in 2019 is November 11th to 15th. Apologies for a few issues with feedb
In this month's podcast, we're joined by @CoreMathsCat, who is Catherine van Sarloos in real life. We discuss: Number of the Podcast: 179 (balloons) Maths Week England is mid-November (11-16th). Catherine is involved in running a contest for it
In the 71st episode of Wrong, But Useful, we’re joined by @nookiedv, who is Anouk de Vos in real life. We discuss:Number of the podcast: 1729, a fairly uninteresting number.Sums of cubes updates:33423 is also interesting as there are two
In this episode, we're joined by special guest co-host @sophiebays, who is Dr Sophie Carr in real life, and the world's most interesting mathematician1.We discuss:The Big Internet Math-Off. My favourite pitch wasn’t really in the contest!I
In this episode, we're joined by @christianp, who is Christian Lawson-Perfect in real life, our first returning special guest co-host1. We discuss:The Big Internet Math Off and associated stickerbook99 variations on a proof by Philip Ording
In this month’s thrilling installment of Wrong, But Useful, we’re joined by @c_j_smith, who is Calvin Smith in real life.We discuss…Number of the Podcast: 5Are Fish and Chip shop owners good at maths?Two maths puns and a maths jokeAre the
In this month's Wrong, But Useful, we're joined by @sheena2907, who is Sheena in real life. We discuss:Sheena's Number of the Podcast: 3,212Board Games - Number Fluxx, Prime ClimbMagic: The Gathering is undecidable!OxbridgeTime surprises
In this month’s episode of Wrong, But Useful, we’re joined by @cshearer41, who is Catriona Shearer in real life.We discuss:LaTeX (time to fight again)Mathematical sign languageMore interesting ‘bad graphs’ than the obvious howlers you usua
In this month’s Wrong, But Useful, we’re joined by @televisionduck, who is TD Dang in real life. We discuss:Chalkdust Issue 091 Fun spring cover with Harris spiral, Horoscope is back!, New academic webpage checklist (c.f. Colin’s old webpage,
In this month’s episode of Wrong, But Useful, we’re joined by @DrSmokyFurby and his handler, Belgin Seymenoglu.Apologies for the poor audio quality on this call. Dave's fault, obviously1 .We discuss:The Talkdust podcast(via Adam Atkinson):
In this month’s installment of Wrong, But Useful, Dave and I are joined by @honeypisquared, who is Lucy Rycroft-Smith in real life.We discuss:Mathematical board games, includingThe MindCamel CupQwintoNumber of the podcast: Lucy doesn’
In this month’s episode of Wrong, But Useful, we’re joined by @ch_nira, who is Dr Nira Chamberlain in real life - and the World’s Most Interesting Mathematician.Nira is a professional mathematical modeller, president-designate of the IMA, and
Since @reflectivemaths wasn't at Big MathsJam and @samuelhansen was, the MathsJam Special is a bit different this year.The post All The Maths Podcasts appeared first on Flying Colours Maths.
In this month’s episode of Wrong, But Useful, we’re joined by @mscroggs, one of the editors of @chalkdustmag1.Colin has a bug and an article in ChalkdustMatt gives some insights into the editing process at the magazineNumber of the podcast:
In this month’s episode of Wrong, But Useful, we’re joined by Special Guest Cohost @macaronique, who is Angela Brett in real life.Angela recites her poem They Might Not Be GiantsWe discuss joy in teaching and learning, and crosswordsNumber
In Episode 59 of Wrong, But Useful, we’re joined by @el_timbre, who is Emma Bell in real life.We discuss: Emma’s Roots column in Chalkdust1 Number of the podcast: 64, because it’s pleasing, and Dave sings the 64 Zoo Lane theme, which is le
In this episode of Wrong, But Useful, we are joined by freelance mathematician @becky_k_warren, formerly of NRICHBecky likes sharing maths with people who "don't like maths" and the #beingmathematical twitter chatNumber of the podcast: 157,
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