A book burning in Palo Alto

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This is my latest monthly column for 3 Quarks Daily . As a book lover it wasn't easy for me to write this, but it also made me realiz...

A terrible year for academic organic chemistry

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In the last one year, academic chemistry has lost Jack Roberts, Jerome Berson, George Olah, Gilbert Stork and now Ron Breslow. The last tw...
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Interpreting Kafka’s Metamorphosis in the Digital Age

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I re-read Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”, wondering if it presented parallels for our age of mute communication enabled by the Internet. The Met...
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Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity

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Andrew Robinson’s compendium on all things Einstein is a lavishly illustrated treat which I read with great pleasure in one sitting. It...
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Fine-tuning the future: A review of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"

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Before there was ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Bladerunner’, before there was even ‘1984’, there was Brave New World. It is astonishing that Aldous Hu...

Cryo-electron microscopy, scientific convergence and - again - why we need to fund basic science

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Cryo-electron microscopy has won the Nobel Prize for chemistry this year, and while I did not expect it to make it quite so fast, nobody ...
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The Madness of J. Robert Oppenheimer: A poem

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The day you were born, the world died. Died in glitter and grist, in skeletons and slogans. Scenic Riverside Drive which bequeathed you...
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