The complex truth about "smart" drugs

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In 'Limitless', a cognitive enhancement pill enables Bradley Cooper's character to finish his novel in four days, learn ...
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Paul Dirac: The Ernest Hemingway of physics

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Paul Dirac was sort of the Ernest Hemingway of physics, only better. Both his equations and his prose were as tight, spare and to the po...
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Genius and Einstein: From 'Great Man' to 'Every Man'?

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Einstein is the poster child for genius because he was a genius The American organic chemist Robert Burns Woodward was a genius; the ...
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The problem with Food Babe

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The Charlotte Observer has a good article on Food Babe , a health and nutrition activist who has been responsible for many a scientist and...
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A response to recent events on Sci Am Blogs

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The re-post of my Feynman post  on SciAm and the note attached to it have led me to write this response. Several readers have asked me wha...
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Richard Feynman, sexism and changing perceptions of a scientific icon

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I fell in love with Richard Feynman when I was in middle school. That is when I discovered " Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman ...
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Molecular modeling and physics: A tale of two disciplines

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The LHC is a product of both time and multiple disciplines In my professional field of molecular modeling and drug discovery I often fe...

Crystallography and chemistry: The culture issue

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Image: Charles Reynolds and ACS Med Chem Letters As the old saying goes, beware of crystallographers bearing ligands. Charles Reynolds ...
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Phil Baran is a man of style. We, of course, knew that for a while.

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Thanks to @ChemicalBiology I just came to know about a piece of news that may simultaneously help resurrect chemistry's moribund publi...

Free Energy Perturbation (FEP) methods in drug discovery: Or, Waiting for Godot

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For interested folks in the Boston area it's worth taking a look at this workshop on Free Energy Perturbation (FEP) methods in drug de...