John Baez is writing about technology and the global ecological crisis

[bananas]

John Baez used to write a column called "This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics".
He now calls it "This Week's Finds" because it includes other stuff.

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/

John Baez's Stuff

I'm a mathematical physicist. I'm about to make a big career shift: I've been working on n-categories and fundamental physics, but now I'm going to the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore for two years, and I plan to think about technology and the global ecological crisis. I'll probably keep thinking about the old stuff a bit, too.

What's New?

"Week303" of This Week's Finds features the third part of my interview with Nathan Urban. Learn how Lake Agassiz flooded out into the Northern Atlantic and made temperatures in Europe plunge by shutting down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC. Could global warming cause a similar event? Learn about Urban's work on this question. It's a great introduction to the mathematics of climate modelling!

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[kristopher]

1. Look forward to more insights from Baez...

Thanks for posting. It is amazing that anyone could find this post unrec worthy on its merits, so I suppose there must be some here who automatically try to downgrade anything you post.

Recced.

[Dead_Parrot]

2. Oops. Damn.

I hit unrec by mistake. :(

Mea Culpa, and have a kick instead.

[petronius]

3. I was reading that as "Joan Baez" for an embarrassingly (and confusingly) long time

Looks like a great resource - thanks!

[bananas]

4. They're cousins

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Baez

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Singer and progressive activist Joan Baez is his cousin and her father, physicist Albert Baez, was his uncle.<2>

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He's an official Usenet Celebrity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_celebrity

A Usenet celebrity (or Usenet personality) is a particular kind of Internet celebrity, being an individual who has gained a certain level of notoriety from posting on Usenet, a global network of computer users with a vast array of topics for discussion.

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John C. Baez – mathematical physicist at the University of California, Riverside, known to science fans as the author of This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics<15> an irregular column on the web featuring mathematical exposition and criticism, which he originally started in 1993 for the Usenet community and which now has a worldwide following. Baez is also known on the World Wide Web as the author of the crackpot index, a numerical method for rating scientific claims and the individuals that make them.

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