"Finding Moonshine: a mathematician's journey through symmetry" is a new book by the author of The Music of the Primes. In twelve chapters, one for each month of his working year, Marcus du Sautoy explores the nature of symmetry and gives an unparalleled insight into the working life of a mathematician.
Over the Christmas period the BBC World Tonight programme did a series of features where people proposed an object for the future. Listen here if you want to hear my proposal: a conscious-ometer.