January 24, 2011
So, how cold was it?
Snow in Alabama, a blizzard in Boston, the AFC championship game played at a wind chill of 5 degrees. . .Yep, it’s cold outside.
January 5, 2011
A short tour of the universe.
In this animation, every satellite, moon, planet, star, and galaxy is represented to scale and in the correct, measured location according the best scientific research to-date.
December 15, 2010
Impressions of Monet.
I never realized how many shades of red there are until I saw Red Chrysanthemums at the Monet exhibit in Paris.
November 22, 2010
Learning to be an architect of ideas.
Interviews with writers are a source of insight and inspiration for my work in the Pharma of the Future™ project.
November 2, 2010
You WILL innovate!
Innovation is something that comes from a mysterious creative force that strikes like lightning to the fortunate inventor—or is it?
September 15, 2010
But. . .my projects are special.
To be successful, interdisciplinary R&D needs a conceptual synthesis to bridge the disciplines and allow research results from one discipline to be applied to the questions of another. Disease-drug models can provide this conceptual synthesis.
September 15, 2010
Model hurricanes.
Although some meteorological modelers may disagree, it seems to me that models predicting development and movement of hurricanes are getting more and more accurate.
September 8, 2010
What if the constants we take for granted are not really constant?
If the universal constant alpha were a mere 4% bigger or smaller than it is, our carbon-based life would not exist. But is this constant really constant?
August 24, 2010
Kinda like standing in front of a development team, huh?
There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
August 19, 2010
Not too complicated for words.
Increasing the transparency, speed, and reliability of information flow among researchers in integrated project teams is a critical step in improving research productivity.
