Linkage

Some good discussions this time over on G+, especially for the vote-off-the-island post but also on the golden spiral, P=NP counterexample, and election-system posts.

• 3d rendered art by Joey Camacho (G+)

• Rivers don't actually approximate semicircles

• Intimidating researchers from discussing known vulnerabilities in fly-by-wire systems

• ICALP accepted papers

• Animations of mechanical linkages

• If impact factors are so obviously irrelevant, why do we still use them?

• California MOOC boondoggle flops (G+)

• Enabling students to vote disliked instructors off the island (G+)

• Festival of short films on quantum mechanics (G+)

• What do Don Sheehy, a sewing machine, and the golden spiral have to do with each other? (G+)

• Undergraduates publish counterexamples to P=NP proofs as a result of a research seminar at Rochester conducted by Lane Hemaspaandra (G+)

• Deciding elections by who has the best median-voter score (G+)