From the perspective of someone lucky enough to have landed a tenure-track professorship. Thursday, May 07, 2015. A neat movie of zooming into a fractal. I must have zoned-out for a good five minutes while watching it.

This is what a computer scientist looks like. On June 29, 2016.

Friday, May 6, 2011. You have probably heard or seen in the news that people in education are trying to implement different changes aimed to improved the system. Michelle Rhee, in Waiting for Superman.

Thursday, April 14, 2011. The Division of Computational Physics of the American Physical Society has got a blog on blogspot. Sunday, March 27, 2011.

This is a blog about life, liberty, and the pursuit of physics. Tuesday, October 6, 2015. Just to follow up on the last post. I guess they found the correct two people to give the prize to. Undoubtedly this discovery was extremely important no matter how you slice it. Sunday, October 4, 2015. Reuters has some interesting guesses here.

Ruminations on emergent phenomena in condensed phases of matter. Wednesday, March 21, 2018. Why am I interested in platypus milk? A fundamental principle of molecular biology is that structure determines properties which determine biological function. This is what drives massive scientific industry of protein structure determination. Led me to read the following paper. The reason this got my attention was that my late father. The paper is of scientific interest for two reason.