1) Another interview with Jordan Ellenberg here (LA Times):
http://tinyurl.com/o63qxnx
For any who missed my review, last week, of Ellenberg's book "How Not To Be Wrong," it's here:
http://mathtango.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-not-to-go-wrong.html
2) A couple of quickie problems from Futility Closet:
http://www.futilitycloset.com/2014/06/15/milestones/
http://www.futilitycloset.com/2014/06/17/pointing-fingers/
3) A May talk (~1 hr.) by Marcus du Sautoy on the aesthetics of mathematics is now online:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-secret-mathematicians
4) If you're interested in chess, a long, but interesting post about cheating in chess, and about Ken Regan (co-author of one of my favorite blogs, "Gödel's Lost Letter..."), who investigates such behavior (I'd never even considered the likelihood of cheating in professional chess!):
http://www.uschess.org/content/view/12677/763
...and R.J. Lipton takes up the same subject here (at the above blog):
http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/the-problem-of-catching-chess-cheaters/
5) Another podcast interview from Sol Lederman, this time with Al Cuoco, author of "Learning Modern Algebra: From Early Attempts to Prove Fermat's Last Theorem," from MAA:
http://wildaboutmath.com/2014/06/14/al-cuoco-inspired-by-math-36/
6) A piece that isn't mathematical, but so interesting (provocative) about the superficiality of philosophy, I thought it ought be passed along (h/t Melody Dye):
http://tinyurl.com/nb6d3py
It's a long interview with philosopher Peter Unger about his new book "Empty Ideas." [There are some narrow aspects of philosophy that interest me, but otherwise I agree with much of what Unger says/implies here.]
7) And also speaking from a sort of quantitative-philosophical bent, the ever-interesting Scott Aaronson posts this very long, creative piece (h/t Cathy O'Neil) on "eigenmorality" (yeah, you read that right), a sort of crossing of philosophy, computer science, and complexity, involving Moses, Jesus, Rebecca Goldstein, Plato, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, et. al.:
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1820
[set aside some significant time to read and digest!]
8) Lastly, for the self-referentially-inclined:
First this: https://twitter.com/michaelshermer/status/478681928703295488/photo/1
and then this (h/t John D. Cook): https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AnthonyScopatz/posts/cCAhUSkRgTR
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