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=== Forums<!--'N-Category Café' and 'N-Café' redirect here--> === Baez is the author of ''This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics'',<ref>[http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/TWF.html This Week's Finds]</ref> an irregular column on the internet featuring mathematical exposition and criticism. He started ''This Week's Finds'' in 1993 for the [[Usenet]] community, and it now has a following in its new form, the blog ''Azimuth''. ''This Week's Finds'' anticipated the concept of a personal [[blog|weblog]].<ref>Lieven LeBruyn, [http://www.neverendingbooks.org/the-unbearable-lightness-of-math-blogging The unbearable lightness of math-blogging], August 23, 2007</ref> Baez creates blog posts about topics or questions he wants to understand more through his column publishings.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Muehlhauser |first=Luke |date=2014-02-22 |title=John Baez on Research Tactics |url=https://intelligence.org/2014/02/21/john-baez-on-research-tactics/ |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=Machine Intelligence Research Institute |language=en-US}}</ref> ''Azimuth'' also covers other topics that include [[climate change mitigation|combating climate change]] and various other [[Environmental policy|environmental]] issues.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Azimuth Project|date=March 24, 2010 |url=https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/about/}}</ref> He is also co-founder of the '''{{anchor|n-category café}}''n''-Category Café'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> (or '''''n''-Café'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->), a [[group blog]] concerning [[higher category theory]] and its applications, as well as its philosophical repercussions. The founders of the blog are Baez, [[David Corfield]] and [[Urs Schreiber]], and the list of blog authors has extended since. The ''n''-Café community is associated with the [[nLab|''n''Lab]] wiki and ''n''Forum forum, which now run independently of ''n''-Café. It is hosted on [[University of Texas at Austin|The University of Texas at Austin]]'s official website.
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