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flother··on How a late-blossoming classics don became Britain’s most beloved intellectual
There are also her essays in the London Review of Books [1] and, as mentioned in the article, her long-running blog for the Times Literary Supplement, A Don's Life [2].

[1]: https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/mary-beard [2]: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/category/a-dons-life/

flother··on Towards LaTeX in the Browser
A common solution is to use LaTeX, but to use it indirectly: write in Markdown and convert to PDF using Pandoc [1], which uses LaTeX in the background. This is (part of) the process used in RMarkdown [2], for example. That way, you get all the benefits of TeX and LaTeX but without most of the pain.

[1]: https://pandoc.org/index.html [2]: http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/

flother··on Why driverless cars may mean jams tomorrow
> This title is confusing

The Economist is famous for using puns in its headlines, and this is a play on a well-known expression (that is itself a pun):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_tomorrow

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