[canada_dry]

An aside: his UC Riverside page is full of interesting stuff: https://math.ucr.edu/home//baez/README.html

[chmaynard]

Dr. Baez is a brilliant mathematical physicist, but web design and publishing is not his strong suit.

[civilized]

I think the page looks and is great. One column of plain text and pictures. Minimal, loads quickly, easy to understand and navigate.

It doesn't have any of the pointless bloat of most "modern" web design, and is all the better for it.