Does Math Talent Make You Smarter than Other Talents?

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2012/08/30/are-assessments-of-scientific-intelligence-biased-toward-mathematically-oriented-fields/

Do people who are good at math get more credit for their smarts than people with other types of genius?

Discalculia - what's going on in the brain?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120829103516.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Grains of Sand

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-many-grains-sand-on-earths-beaches

How many grains of sand are on the world's beaches?

Soul Mate Math

http://what-if.xkcd.com/9/

If you have one true soul mate, what's the probability of finding him/her?

Happy Numbers

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/08/27/why-167-is-a-happy-numberbesides-being-scientific-americans-age/

What are happy numbers?

Vihart: Connecting Dots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c&feature=share&list=UUOGeU-1Fig3rrDjhm9Zs_wg

Doodling in Math Class:  Connecting Dots

The Mathematical Legacy of William Thurston (1946-2012)

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/08/23/the-mathematical-legacy-of-william-thurston-1946-2012/

Does How Much You Make Change Proportional Spending in Your Budget?

http://www.prosebeforehos.com/article-of-the-day/08/21/how-america-spends/

All American Handyman

http://www.hgtv.com/all-american-handyman/show/index.html

A great show  - math skills in measurement and geometry are often what causes a competitor to lose out on the top position.

Pi-Hundred People live in U.S.

http://www.krdo.com/news/Pi-hundred-million-people-live-in-U-S/-/417220/16134822/-/dy10tc/-/index.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Is it Math or Maths?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/08/14/maths/

What If? - Could we really all leave the planet?

http://what-if.xkcd.com/7/

If an asteroid is headed to earth, could we all get off, assuming we had somewhere to go?

Can Math Determine if and when History will Repeat Itself?

http://www.nature.com/news/human-cycles-history-as-science-1.11078

Why Olympic Feats Raise Suspicion

http://www.nature.com/news/why-great-olympic-feats-raise-suspicions-1.11109