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• The Physics of Refrigeration

  Today, the high temperature for Baltimore was 37 Celsius, which is body temperature. Much of the US is experiencing a heat wave with many places in the south an... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2024 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Venture Capital Subsidy is Over

  Much has been written about the low approval of the current President and the general disgruntlement of the population despite conventional economic measures... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2023 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Myth of the Zero Sum College Admission Game

  A major concern of the commentary in the wake of the recent US Supreme Court decision eliminating the role of race in college admission is how to maintain... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2023 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Chat GPT and the End of Human Culture

  I had a personal situation this past year that kept me from posting much but today I decided to sit down and write something - all by myself without any help... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2023 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper

  Nature Communications volume 14, Article number: 2851 (2023) Cite this article Abstract Task-related neural activity is widespread across populations of... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2023 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• How Many Different Universes Can There Be?

  If there are an infinite number of universes or even if a single universe is infinite in extent then each person (or thing) should have an infinite number of... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2023 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Falling Through the Earth

  

  The 2012 remake of the classic film Total Recall features a giant elevator that plunges through the earth from Australia to England. This trip is called the... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2022 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Dynamics of Inflation

  

  Inflation, the steady increase of prices and wages, is a nice example of what is called a marginal mode, line attractor, or invariant manifold in dynamical... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2022 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper on Sars-CoV-2

  

  J.C.Phillips, Marcelo A.Moret, Gilney F.Zebende, Carson C.Chow Abstract The novel coronavirus SARS CoV-2 responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic and SARS CoV-1... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2022 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Reorganizing Risk in the Age of Disaster

  I've been thinking a lot about what we should do for the next (and current) disaster. The first thing to say is that I am absolutely positively sure that I coul... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2022 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Dynamics of Breakthrough Infections

  

  In light of the new omicron variant and breakthrough infections in people who have been vaccinated or previously infected, I was asked to discuss what a model... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2022 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Autocracy and Star Trek

  Like many youth of my generation, I watched the original Star Trek in reruns and Next Generation and Deep Space Nine in real time. I enjoyed the shows but... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2021 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• My Immune System

  One outcome of the pandemic is that I have not had any illness (knock on wood), nary a cold nor sniffle, in a year and a half. On the other hand, my skin has... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2021 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Rna

  I read an article recently about an anti-vaccination advocate exclaiming at a press conference with the governor of Florida that vaccines against SARS-CoV-2... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2021 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Covid, Covid, Covid

  Even though Covid- is going to be with us forever, I actually think on the whole the pandemic turned out better than expected, and I mean that in the technical... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2021 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Hash, the Merkle Tree, and Bitcoin

  Although cryptocurrencies have been mainstream for quite a while, I still think the popular press has not done a great job explaining the details of how they... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2021 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Magic Card Tricks

  Interesting article in the New York Times today about how people to this day still do not know how magician David Berglass did his "Any Card At Any Number"... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2021 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Final Stretch

  The end of the Covid-19 pandemic is within reach. The vaccines have been a roaring success and former Bell Labs physicist J.C. Phillips predicted it (see... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2021 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Probability of Extraterrestrial Life

  

  Since, the discovery of exoplanets nearly 3 decades ago most astronomers, at least the public facing ones, seem to agree that it is just a matter of time... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2021 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Inherent Conflict of Liberalism

  Liberalism, as a philosophy, arose during the European Enlightenment of the 17th century. It's basic premise is that people should be free to choose how they... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2021 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE