I'm on vacation with my financier fiancée for a week in South Carolina: a few days at our friends' wedding, a few days at Hilton Head, and a few days with my soon-to-be in-laws. The weather has been beautiful: heat and humidity reminding of my UNC days. The shark that swam past me gave me the [...]...

I have a chance to brag, so I'm going to take it. I just published a Communication in JACS. The basic idea is to use an an azide to disrupt the push-pull character of a known fluorophore, rendering it dark. Because the azide is photoconvertible to an electron donor (the amine), you can photoactivate fluorescence. The motivation for [...]...

JACSβ is ACS's attempt at going Web2.0, but I'm not too impressed, yet. The strangest thing is the JACS podcasts, which is nothing more than someone reading a JACS Comm word-for-word … literally! Seriously, they even read the submission date and describe the figures. You can't really get the full effect of a scientific article unless [...]...

JACSβ is ACS's attempt at going Web2.0, but I'm not too impressed, yet. The strangest thing is the JACS podcasts, which is nothing more than someone reading a JACS Comm word-for-word … literally! Seriously, they even read the submission date and describe the figures. You can't really get the full effect of a scientific article unless [...]...

How much does research on "Godly Love" cost? If you said $150,000 per project, you'd be right! To what extent can emotionally powerful experiences of a "divine flame of love" move us beyond our ordinary self-interests and help us express unconditional, unlimited love for all others, especially when our human capacities seem to reach their limits? The [...]...