Congratulations! John Allen Paulos

 Author and Temple University professor John Allen Paulos, author of "Innumeracy" (a favorite of mine) as well as several other books and writings, was awarded the 2013 Math Communicators Award given out by a joint group of mathematical societies recently (he'll actually receive it Jan. 10, 2013):

http://math.mit.edu/mathcomm/archives/john-allen-paulos-to-receive-math-communications-award/

The very illustrious list of past winners is here:

http://www.maa.org/awards/jpbm.html

Paulos won a similar award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science back in 2003.