Condensed concepts

I just posted on the arXiv a long review article on emergence Emergence: from physics to biology, sociology, and computer science The abstra...

It is important to be clear what the system is. Most of chemistry is not really about isolated molecules. A significant amount of chemistry ...

The comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) getting a lot of attention , pointed out to me by my friend Alexey. Why is it green? This basic question turns out...

 Until a few years ago I had never engaged with or received feedback from my writing from a professional editor. This is because the only ge...

Roald Hoffmann and Jean-Paul Malrieu are two of my favourite living theoretical chemists. Both greatly value the role of concepts and intell...

 How can we design a room-temperature superconductor? How can a government stimulate economic growth? How can an NGO help reduce domestic vi...

Life is truly amazing! Life is beautiful! ...and it involves quantum many-body physics... There is a beautiful (short) review Heme: Fro...

One of the most basic skills needed to succeed, or even survive, in professional life is to be able to write well. This is true whether you ...

Previously I have posted about the fascinating challenge of understanding singlet fission [and the inverse process of triplet-triplet annih...

This is the main point of a nice article by Roald Hoffmann , that I posted about in the early days of this blog. I experienced this a few...

Roald Hoffmann and Sason Shaik are two of my favourite theoretical chemists. They have featured in a number of my blog posts. I particularly...

Robert Mulliken was one of the founders of quantum chemistry. In 1965 he gave a conference talk Molecular Scientists and Molecular Science...

Weston Borden's article 40 years of fruitful chemical collaborations  has an significant observation concerning writing effective papers...

Electronegativity is a simple and profound concept for understanding and giving a semi-quantitative description of broad classes of chemical...

The Journal of Chemical Physics website has a fascinating podcast with Roald Hoffmann, Neil Ashcroft, and Vanessa Labet talking about a ser...

There is an interesting editorial by Roald Hoffmann, What, Another Nobel Prize in Chemistry to a Nonchemist ? in the latest issue in Angewan...

I just read a nice article Theory in Chemistry by Roald Hoffmann . Although, written in 1974, I consider it just as poignant (or perhaps ev...

I have a dream. That every advisor (supervisor) who gets a student to perform a computational chemistry calculation will have them read the ...

Chemists and physicists tend to talk different languages, including when discussing the same thing. One important parallel is the common con...

Here are a few reasons why you should work hard at picking the title of your papers. * They are one of your only chances to get people int...