The ongoing series on information geometry also looks excellent.
Speaking of the marriage between mathematics and biology. Is there an online repository or books of 'recipes' for fractal models of real plants or landscape features? There are things like fern fractals, plant-building grammars or random fractal landscapes, but as of yet no systematic attempt to (publicly?) describe natural features through procedural means.
This is a great idea. I hope applied mathematics in the 21st century will leave purely quantitative fields like physics and engineering, to reach more quantitative ones, for example finance and economy (already done), biology, ecology, and perhaps social sciences like anthropology.
Perhaps the "Joan Baez" should be removed from the title. I clicked thinking it was a folk singer talking about politicized mathematics.
You know they are cousins right ? That you happened to have an incorrect impression is not a reason enough that a blog post should not be correctly attributed. By the way you share your name with the spokesperson of the Dow chemical company...