As noted elsewhere this week, the eminent American essayist George Scialabba has recently taken his work online with GeorgeScialabba.net.
But that’s just the beginning. He’s on a roll. [click to continue…]
Via 3QD, a nice profile of the great Don Knuth who — amongst many other things — gave the world TeX, which, together with its various descendants, helps make technical writing beautiful and encourages amateur typophiles to waste their time formatting their work.
Not content with their Nobel Prize, Economists also emulate Mathematics with their Fields Medal analog, the John Bates Clark Medal. This year, for the first time, the winner is a woman: Harvard’s Susan Athey. Congratulations to her. (Hat tip: Brad DeLong.)