Ben Orlin

“I’m a longtime fan of 3 Quarks Daily!”

Ben Orlin, author of four best-selling mathematics books: Math with Bad Drawings (2018), Change is the Only Constant (2019), Math Games with Bad Drawings (2022), and Math for English Majors (2024).



Friday, September 18, 2020

Horst Ludwig Störmer

“I really appreciate your selection of generally sane and mostly stimulating articles. 3 Quarks Daily has been my goto website at the end of the day, and now also during the day!”

Horst Ludwig Störmer, Nobel laureate in physics and emeritus professor at Columbia University.

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Justin E. H. Smith

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Justin E. H. Smith, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Paris.

Friday, November 15, 2019

Scott Newstok

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Scott Newstok, Professor of English, Director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment, Rhodes College, and author of How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education.

Thursday, June 7, 2018

Sean Carroll

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Sean Carroll, physicist at Caltech, author.

Monday, October 30, 2017

Thomas Manuel

“The cross-disciplinary curatorial website 3 Quarks Daily represents a pocket of humanity in an increasingly amoral, algorithmic internet.”

Thomas Manuel, playwright, in The Wire.

Ned Block

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Ned Block, Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science at NYU; former chair of the philosophy program at MIT.

Alain de Botton

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Alain de Botton, best-selling Swiss-British writer and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

William Dalrymple

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William Dalrymple, award winning historian and travel writer, as well as distinguished broadcaster, critic, art historian, foreign correspondent and founder and co-director of Asia’s largest literary festival.

Laura Claridge

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Laura Claridge, former Professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy, and author of Romantic Potency: The Paradox of Desire, Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence, and Norman Rockwell: A Life.

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Clay Shirky, prominent thinker on the Internet and its social and economic consequences, and author of Here Comes Everybody, in The Atlantic.

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Huw Price

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Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. He is also co-founder, with Martin Rees and Jaan Tallinn, of a project to establish a Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

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Mohsin Hamid, author of Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, in the New York Times.

Ken Roth

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Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch since 1993.

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John Allen Paulos, Professor of Mathematics at Temple University, and bestselling author of Innumeracy