Steven Weinberg (1933-2021)

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I was quite saddened to hear about the passing of Steven Weinberg, perhaps the dominant living figure from the golden age of particle physic...

Kurt Gödel's open world

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Two men walking in Princeton, New Jersey on a stuffy day. One shaggy-looking with unkempt hair, avuncular, wearing a hat and suspenders, loo...
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Jim Simons: "We never override the computer"

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Billionaire-mathematician Jim Simons has been called the most successful investor of all time. His Renaissance Technologies hedge fund has r...
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Review: James Hornfischer's "The Fleet at Flood Tide".

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A superb book on the last year of the war in the Pacific Theater, full of incredible details about underappreciated leaders like Raymond Spr...

Malcolm Gladwell's "The Bomber Mafia" - Weak Tea

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Just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell's new book, "The Bomber Mafia", and am sorely disappointed. It's like Gladwell has ...
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The human problems with molecular modeling

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Molecular modeling and computational chemistry are the neglected stepchildren of pharmaceutical and biotech research. In almost every compan...
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Book review: Charles Seife’s “Hawking Hawking”

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I still remember the first time I encountered “A Brief History of Time”. I must have been in high school. I marveled at the elfin-looking be...
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Chandra and Johnny come close to discovering black holes

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This is from Jagdish Mehra and Helmut Rechenberg's monumental "The Historical Development of Quantum Mechanics, Vol. 6, Part 2"...
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"Hawking Hawking" and Michio Kaku

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Two items of amusement and interest. One is a new biography of Hawking by Charles Seife, coming out tomorrow, that attempts to close the gap...

Six lessons from the biotech startup world

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Having worked for a few biotech startups over the years, while I am not exactly a grizzled warrior, I have been around the block a bit and h...