The Curious Wavefunction
Musings on science, history, philosophy and literature
Brenner, von Neumann and Schrödinger
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Erwin Schrödinger's book, "What is Life"?, inspired many scientists like Crick, Watson and Perutz to go into molecular biology...
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On change
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Two weeks ago, outside a coffee shop near Los Angeles, I discovered a beautiful creature, a moth. It was lying still on the pavement and I w...
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Book Review: Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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I n the 19th century it was coal and steel, in the 20th century it was oil and gas, what will it be in the 21st century? The answer, accordi...
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A Science Thanksgiving
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It’s Thanksgiving weekend here in the U.S., and there’s an informal tradition on Thanksgiving to give thanks for all kinds of things in our ...
Book review: A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age, by Alec Wilkinson
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A beautifully written account of mathematics lost and found. The author got "estranged" from mathematics in school and now, at th...
Temple Grandin vs algebra
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There's a rather strange article by Temple Grandin in the Atlantic, parts of which had me vigorously nodding my head and parts of which...
David McCullough (1933-2022)
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I have been wanting to write about David McCullough who passed away recently and whose writings I always enjoyed. McCullough was admittedly ...
Book review: "The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age", by Steve Olson
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In the history of the Manhattan Project, Los Alamos has always been the star, and Hanford and Oak Ridge where plutonium and uranium respecti...
The root of diverse evil
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It wasn’t very long ago that I was rather enamored with the New Atheist movement, of which the most prominent proponent was Richard Dawkin...
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Book review: "Unraveling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA", by Gareth Williams.
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Newton rightly decried that science progresses by standing on the shoulders of giants. But his often-quoted statement applies even more broa...
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