Friday Potpourri

This week's grab-bag (and I will either have NO weekly potpourri next week, or else it will appear on Sunday, rather than on Friday, the day after Christmas):

1)  Recent New Zealand interview with Marcus du Sautoy here:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/20160965/marcus-du-sautoy-maths-and-art
...related Sautoy article here:
http://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/326897/painting-numbers

2)  The best puzzle and game theory posts from Presh Talwalkar ("Mind Your Decisions") for 2014 -- catch up if you missed any of these:
http://ow.ly/FYgYZ

3)  Fascinating report on the "Umbral Moonshine Conjecture" (...no, I'd never heard of it either!, but related to the Monster Group):
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141215114816.htm

4)  Technical post from Terry Tao on latest work regarding "long gaps between primes":
http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/long-gaps-between-primes/

5)  "Boolean" vs. "additive" thinking from Andrew Gelman:
http://andrewgelman.com/2014/12/18/key-part-statistical-thinking-use-additive-rather-boolean-models/

6) "Why Should You Learn Math?"... one student's answer:
http://3010tangents.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/why-should-you-learn-math/

7)  I'm always eager to shine light on Dr. Keith Devlin and his endeavors in math communication. This week someone else did it for me:
http://mathematicalmysterytour.blogspot.com/2014/12/professor-keith-devlin-on-youtube.html

8)  And for your smile-of-the-week:
http://tinyurl.com/jvg5ts6