One more thing we can learn from Linus Pauling

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W hat makes a successful scientist? The question is hard to answer, not because there is no general consensus but because the precise contri...
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Dirac, Bernstein, Weinberg and the limits of reductionism

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J eremy Bernstein is a physicist and science writer who has worked with some of the leading physicists of the twentieth century and has penn...
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A singular lament

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When I was in high school I used to play keyboards in a band. While my own sweet PSR series Yamaha gave me much pleasure, I used to often sa...
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A marvelous fox: William Lipscomb (1919-2011)

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S ince we were speaking of chemical hedgehogs and foxes the other day, here's a remarkable fox who we forgot to mention, and it's u...
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Hedgehogs and foxes in chemistry

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I saiah Berlin's parable about hedgehogs and foxes has long since served as a thought-provoking lens for looking at science and scienti...
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How (not) to get tenure

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Over at the blog Cosmic Variance , there are two ( 1 , 2 ) excellent and informative posts on how to get tenure and how to kill your chances...

The burden of biological organization

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The Helix's Tale I need time. I need time. To shed my aqueous armor To align flickering, eager dipoles I need time, to liberate A trilli...

How a college student can derive the RNA world hypothesis from scratch

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One of the greatest breakthroughs in twentieth century biology was the finding that RNA can serve as a catalyst and drive some of life's...
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