The protein folding funnel and its discontents

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Speaking of protein folding, here's something interesting. One of the most enduring views of protein folding from the last decade is tha...
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Lindau 2011: What do scientists do after winning the Nobel Prize?

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Most of us know about the prize-winning work of this year's Lindau Nobel Laureates, but how many of us keep track of what they did aft...

The fine-tuning problem in protein folding: Is there a protein multiverse?

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O ne of the deepest questions physicists have struggled with in the last half-decade is the so-called "fine-tuning problem". The f...
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Lindau 2011: From designing airplanes to designing proteins

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An inspiration from the birth of aviation A few weeks ago I visited the small coastal town of Kitty Hawk in North Carolina. Kitty Hawk is w...

Putting the filosophy back into fysiks

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How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival- David Kaiser Does philosophy have a place in serious scienc...
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Lindau 2011: The beginning

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This year I am privileged to be invited again to write for and attend the 61st Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany. This year...

God is not only unsubtle but she is malicious

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This PNAS piece definitely takes the pick for the most suggestive abstract I have seen in recent history. The picture above is of a butterf...
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Why would a molecule become more soluble at low temperature?

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This is something I wanted to put out there. A colleague of mine reported a situation in which his flexible, complex organic molecule was be...
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Xtreme C-H functionalization: Natural Edition

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Blogging has been swamped lately by that miracle called life but I could not help but be drawn to a paper in this week's Science which...
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Links...

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1. A Nature News article on how scientists burnish their credentials online. The article describes a bizarre case where a researcher named ...
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