Nobel Week

It's been an interesting week so far, with the vesicle transport, Higgs boson, and now multiscale modeling being recognized.   While I clearly missed the ball this year in contrast to last year, I suppose it still leaves a potential Prize for molecular dynamics to be awarded in Chemistry, or perhaps Physics without the Higgs juggernaut lying in wait.

Of course, I am tremendously entertained to see the "those three do a lot of biological applications" comments already cropping up elsewhere.  Heh.   Read more!

Trifling Thoughts.

1.) I really was hoping to go for a couple of more years before having to deal with a poorly behaving high-power RF amplifier.

2.) Whenever someone says that quantum mechanics should be understood at an intuitive level, I wonder if they never had to occasionally take solace in the mathematics earlier on in their education.  While it was fleeting during intro E&M at university, the intermediate E&M class did have me routinely finding some sanity in mathematics.  Perhaps my intuition is just exceptionally poor, of course. 

3.)  Given all the hoo-ha about AFM recently, I thought this was interesting and timely.

And there's a good ending point for today......


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