Book review: “Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough” by Walter Brown

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A fascinating book about a revolutionary medical discovery that has saved and treated millions of lives, was adopted with a lot of resist...

Spooky factions at a distance

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For me, a highlight of an otherwise ill-spent youth was reading mathematician John Casti’s fantastic book “ Paradigms Lost “. The book ca...
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A new paper on kinase inhibitor discovery: not one on "drugs", and not one on an "AI breakthrough"

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There is a new multicenter study on the discovery of some new kinase inhibitor compounds for the kinase DDR1 that has been making the rou...
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Mathematics, And The Excellence Of The Life It Brings

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Shing-Tung Yau and Eugenio Calabi Mathematics and music have a pristine, otherworldly beauty that is very unlike that found in other hu...

The three horsemen of the machine learning apocalypse

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My colleague Patrick Riley from Google has a good piece in Nature in which he describes three very common errors in applying machine learni...

Infinite horizons; or why I am optimistic about the future

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The Doomsday Scenario, also known as the Copernican Principle, refers to a framework for thinking about the death of humanity. One can re...

Book review: The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson When the British army of regulars capture...
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