Ravi Vakil, Anton Geraschenko and I are writing an opinion piece for the Notices about Math Overflow. Following in the fine tradition that John Baez started with his opinion piece about mathematical blogging, we’d like to post our d...

Read the draft of an expository paper on higher gauge theory by John Huerta and John Baez.

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Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, John Mellencamp, Smokey Robinson, Jennifer Hudson, Will.i.am and more artists took the stage earlier this week in Washington, DC, for a Black History Month special titled “In Performance at the White House: A C...

He performed alongside John Mellencamp, Smokey Robinson, and Joan Baez at the White House for a PBS special on music and the civil rights movement (not "music from the Watchmen soundtrack" although: idea file!). More at NYT. ...

A host of musical performers, including folk rock legend Bob Dylan, are expected to perform in the East Room of the White House today as part of “In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Moveme...

Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone by John C. Baez and Mike Stay, 2009. In physics, Feynman diagrams are used to reason about quantum processes. In the 1980s, it became clear that underlying these diagrams is...

In a previous post, I noted John Baez’s thread discussing his incipient article for the Notices of the AMS, entitled “What do mathematicians need to know about blogging?”.  John has now completed an initial draft of his article and ...

Mike Stay tries to explain the pi calculus to John Baez.

John Baez has been invited to write a short opinion piece for the Notices of the AMS to report about the maths blogging phenomenon to the wider mathematical community, and in the spirit of that phenomenon, has opened up a blog post ...

As you can tell from the title of this post, I am trying to drag John Baez over to our blog. Let be the ring of quaternions, i.e., with the standard relations. Let -mod be the category of left -modules. This has an obvious tensor ...

In an expository paper on category theory and quantization, John Baez says there is no natural functor from SYMP (the category of symplectic manifolds, with symplectomorphisms as morphisms) to HILB (the category of Hilbert spaces, w...

Help John Baez write a paper on the prehistory of n-categorical physics --- the prehistory of a history that hasn't quite started yet.

Folk music hero Pete Seeger turned 90 yesterday and was celebrated with a concert at Madison Square Garden. The concert featured such heavyweights as Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Tom Morello, and Ani...

“Platforms have yet to be decided.” - producer John Baez I am really hoping we get this game on the Wii. I mean, we had Alien Hominid on the Cube…it’s about time these guys threw some more support at the Wii! Link...

Photo: Mazur/WireImage It looks like Bob Dylan may be hitting the road with John Mellencamp for a run of minor league ballpark gigs this summer. Nothing has been confirmed, but at a recent Joan Baez concert in Bloomingon she let the...

Joan Baez, Ben Harper, Ani DiFranco, Dave Matthews, Emmylou Harris, Juanes, John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen are among performers for a concert celebrating Pete Seeger's 90th birthday. The Clearwater Concert: Creating the Next ...

John Baez alerts us to a a bill before Congress that would overturn the National Institute of Health’s open access policy. The NIH, one of the major sources of funding for medical research, requires that any papers that result from...

As I have noted earlier, some posts by John Baez and others on certain crackpots having their own Elsevier journal to dump their E-infinity weirdness have disappeared from the net. Luckily, one brave soul keeps copies of this stuff....

Ever since john Baez wrote his delightful, very funny and insightful crackpot index (which I recalled reading this post from Sean on Cosmic Variance), the genre has undergone a small revolution. There are many reasons for that pheno...