Daily Archives: August 27, 2011

Blogging David Goodsell’s “The Machinery of Life” (Evolution, Scale, and the Counter-Intuitive Nano-Realm)

David Goodsell is a molecular biologist at The Scripps Research Institute in California, and he has written a hippie-beautiful introductory text to molecular biology, The Machinery of Life (2nd edition, Springer 2010), which Scientific American calls “an impressive and original book.” I call it “hippie-beautiful” because … Continue reading

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Blogging David Goodsell’s “The Machinery of Life” (Chapter 1)

David Goodsell is a molecular biologist at The Scripps Research Institute in California, and he has written a hippie-beautiful introductory text to molecular biology, The Machinery of Life (2nd edition, Springer 2010), which Scientific American calls “an impressive and original book.” I call it “hippie-beautiful” because … Continue reading

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Via Satellite, Tropical Storms Remind Me of Einstein’s Hair

Just an observation.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 . And:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            . Source for images: Wikipedia Commons via NASA and the World-Telegram.

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