Condensed concepts

 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...

When considering a writing project it is good to think about the nature and feasibility of the project. Here my focus is not on projects a t...

Unfortunately, there is a paucity of good review articles that give gentle introductions to current research in condensed matter, both for b...

There is a very helpful review article Demystifying the Holographic Mystique by Dmitri Khveshchenko In order to motivate a proper full r...

I finally read most of an interesting Colloquium article in Reviews of Modern Physics Statistical mechanics of money, wealth, and income  ...

Sometimes I bemoan the decline of scholarship in science, and in academia more broadly. About six years ago I posted about Ph.D's witho...

I recently read a couple of review articles about topics I am trying to learn about. What was really striking was how much the authors cited...

Chemical Reviews just published an article Nuclear Quantum Effects in Water and Aqueous Systems: Experiment, Theory, and Current Challeng...

Last October I enjoyed attending a meeting,  Water: the most anomalous liquid  at NORDITA. One of the goals of the workshop was to produce a...

There is a nice helpful review Biochemistry and Theory of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer  Agostino Migliore, Nicholas F. Polizzi, Michae...

In several posts I have emphasised that Chemistry is local. This is illustrated by the fact that specific bonds within a molecule have appr...

On the arXiv, Andre-Marie Tremblay has posted a nice tutorial review  Strongly correlated superconductivity . It is based on some summer sc...

There is a nice review article Low-barrier hydrogen bonds in proteins by M.V. Hosur, R. Chitra, Samarth Hegde, R.R. Choudhury, Amit Das, an...

There is a very nice and helpful review article Correlated quantum phenomena in the strong spin-orbit regime William Witczak-Krempa, Gang ...

The review article that Ben Powell and I just finished, Quantum frustration in organic Mott insulators: from spin liquids to unconventional...

Ben Powell and I have finished the revised  and updated version of our review article, Quantum frustration in organic Mott insulators: from ...

My subjective impression is that chemists are better at producing useful review articles, both in quality and quantity, than physicists. I p...

In 1983, when I was a budding young student heading off to Princeton to do a physics Ph.D. I had the privilege of spending some time with an...

I finally read Conyer Herring's article Distill or Drown: the need for reviews. It contains the figure above which is worth thinking abo...

Physics Today has a nice obituary for Conyers Herring , written by Phil Anderson, Ted Geballe, and Walter Harrison. Herring founded the The...