Via “3QD”:http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/, a nice “profile”:http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2006/mayjun/features/knuth.html of the great “Don Knuth”:http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/ who — amongst many other things — gave the world “TeX”:http://www.ctan.org/, which, together with its “various”:http://www.latex-project.org/ descendants, helps make technical writing beautiful and encourages amateur typophiles to “waste their time”:https://crookedtimber.org/2005/04/27/fetishizing-the-text/ formatting their “work”:http://www.kieranhealy.org/files/drafts/moral-order.pdf.

Not content with their Nobel Prize, Economists also emulate Mathematics with their Fields Medal analog, the “John Bates Clark Medal”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bates_Clark_Medal. This year, for the first time, the winner is a woman: Harvard’s “Susan Athey”:http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~athey/. Congratulations to her. (Hat tip: “Brad DeLong”:http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/04/susan_athey_win.html.)