Scientist, Artist, Fulbright Scholar

Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini a Nobel-winning biologist, has died. I was reading her obituary in this morning's New York Times and came acros...

I think we can all agree that learning takes place when we put together pieces of knowledge to build a larger whole. We can call this larger...

Science and art rule the world. Without them the world, especially human life, would be not just a duller place. It would not function. A ye...

Heavy rain in the forecast for Boston today. As I sit here writing in the predawn light I see the trees out front swaying in the wind. Wat...

I put together some dough last night that would not rise. Did I introduce the yeast to too-hot water or was this another co-op failure, mold...

My first mentor in botany, a wonderful woman named Alix Wennekens, told me that before she learned botany the world was like a green tunnel ...

So I feel like the direction of my blog is changing as I continue to define aesthetics and the ways we can use it in solving problems, visu...