Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

The Song of the Dodo , by David Quammem . One of my favorite science writers is David Quammen . I’ve discussed several of his books in this ...

I’m a big Alan Alda fan. As a teenager, I would watch him each week as Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H . Besides being an actor, Alda also had a...

The Nuclear Energy Option: An Alternative for the 90s . by Bernard Cohen. Today is the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of American nu...

One Hot Summer , by Rosemary Ashton . I recently finished Rosemary Ashton ’s book One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great S...

Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) One recurring theme in this blog is how scientists make the transition from working in the physical sciences to st...

The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science , by Peter Hotez . This week I read The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science: A Scientist’s Warning , by Peter Hotez ...

Breathless , by David Quammen . Whenever David Quammen has a new book, I put it on my “to read” list. Recently I finished his latest: Breat...