Chemistry and Biology: Kuhnian or Galisonian?

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Peter Galison who has emphasized the dominance of experimental techniques in engineering scientific revolutions (Image: BNL). First...
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Nobel Week Dialogue

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There hasn't been much blogging over the last two weeks, mainly because I have been blogging for a special event preceding the offici...

Why the same can be different: The case of the two enantiomers

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The R enantiomer (green) allows Tyr337 to adopt two different orientations. The S (yellow) does not. Since we were discussing thermod...
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Angewandte Chemie retracts hexacyclinol paper. Sort of

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So it seems that the infamous hexacyclinol saga has been finally put to rest and Angewandte Chemie has retracted the paper. For those c...
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Occam, me and a conformational medley

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Originally posted on the Scientific American Blog Network. William of Occam, whose principle of parsimony has been used and misused...
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Does modern day college and graduate education in chemistry sacrifice rigor for flexibility?

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This is what I love about blogging; it's the classic "one thing leads to another" device. The previous discussion on the pau...
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Who's afraid of Big Bad Thermodynamics?

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George Whitesides , in a trademark outfit. In a talk at Northeastern University yesterday, George Whitesides asked the students in the...
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Live blogging the Northeastern Drug Discovery conference

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So I figured that since I am attending the drug discovery conference at Northeastern University I might as well jot down a few thoughts abo...
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Book review: Benoit Mandelbrot's "The Fractalist"

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"My life", says Benoit Mandelbrot in the introduction to his memoir , "reminds me of that fairy tale in which the hero fin...
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How to run a world-class lab

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One of this year's Nobel laureates in physics, Serge Haroche, has a few words of wisdom for fostering a good research environment. ...
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