Abstruse Goose: 3 a.m.

To be honest, I’m not sure whether AG meant this to be about the loneliness of an over-specialized molecular biologist whose best friends are alcohol and a ficus plant; or about the reasons for that loneliness.  If the latter, then he’d need look no further than the recent hoo-ha about research into terrorist viruses, or […]

Guest Post: Remembering Horace Judson

In his several books and many articles in magazines and academic journals, Horace Freeland Judson dared to size scientists up, though he wasn’t one. He died on May 6, age 80. He was my teacher and my friend, and I would like to say a few things about his works both to offer tribute and […]