One of the requisite skills for my job as a scientist is the ability to communicate the details of my work to a wide range of audiences, fro...

The final entry in the Rabbit Angstrom series by author John Updike is entitled Rabbit Remembered . This book was published in 2001, a litt...

The starting pitcher for the winning team in game 1 of the baseball World Series was accused after the contest of doctoring the ball using V...

My occasional blog series "Observations" was created to be an outlet to share a variety of topics that pop into my field of view ...

Sometimes I can be a nasty, prejudiced, small-minded so-and-so. I see someone, make a snap assessment, and apply my opinion-laced first impr...

A few years ago I wrote a post entitled Chalk Dust about an experience that I had with some former university students of mine. Basically t...

The final novel in the "Rabbit Angstrom" tetralogy by John Updike, entitled Rabbit at Rest , was published in 1990. As was the ca...