Indeed - when I was majoring in math (more than a decade ago), a professor pointed me towards John Baez's Usenet posts and suggested I keep up on them. I've be

Indeed - when I was majoring in math (more than a decade ago), a professor pointed me towards John Baez's Usenet posts and suggested I keep up on them. I've been hooked ever since. I was initially dismayed when I heard that he was leaving math for environmentalism, but having read his recent posts on network theory, it's clear that he hasn't completely left his mathematical passions behind. I was extremely interested when I heard that he and Eliezer had been talking, it's a strange meeting of worlds, but a really fascinating one. IMO Baez should really write some books. He consistently explains highly technical and difficult topics in a way that they become comprehensible even to a lay observer; he could very easily do something along the lines of Penrose's Road To Reality and bring some of the high-falootin abstract nonsense down to an understandable level.