Lux et Libertas

The Beauty of Organic Chemistry Revealed

Browsing through the recent issue of Nature, I stumbled upon an headline that triggered fond memories of freshmen organic chemistry at Yale: “Electrostatic catalysis of a Diels–Alder reaction.” In a remarkably elegant experiment, the authors show that…

Science Research Report on Cocaine

New research on patients with Cocaine Use Disorder (CUD) was published in the June 17, 2016 issue…

Oncohistones and Gene Regulation

Today I heard a great presentation by Chao Lu from the Rockefeller University at a day-long symposium in epigenetics hosted by the New York Genome Center.

The next big step in graduate education: Why Yale should build its first graduate college

Optogentic dopamine sleep switch

Gero Miesenboeck’s lab at Oxford published in the Aug 16 issue of Nature results of an experiment in…

Putin’s Political Power

I spent a year in Moscow fifteen years ago, right at the time that Vladimir Putin was consolidating his power. He…

How much would an ideal treatment for opioid addiction cost?

Imagine if your high school offered classes on AI and quantum mechanics

A Marshall Plan for the Middle East

Instead of continuing to wage wars in Afghanistan and in the Middle East, the cost of which has…