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September 24, 2017

The work I am most proud of is not my best-known work. As a graduate student, I was enthralled by a mysterious phenomenon of emergent cell synchrony that …

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What impedes substantive progress?

December 28, 2014

It is widely discussed, most prominently by Alberts et al., that the current academic culture is increasingly suppressing the creativity, …

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Can mere hype succeed in the long-term ?

October 21, 2014

Michael I. Jordan, one of the most prominent statisticians of our time, warns that “The overeager adoption of big data …

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Tell me about the science, not the prizes!

August 13, 2014

One might introduce Egas Moniz as the great Nobel laureate and Dmitri Mendeleev as a chemist with few great awards. Much more informatively, however, one should introduce Egas Moniz as an influential protagonist of lobotomy and Dmitri Mendeleev as the co-inventor of the periodic table of elements.

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The Best Projects Are Least Obvious

September 26, 2013

We are fortunate to live in an exciting time. Today, new technologies enable the design and execution of straightforward experiments, …

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The mission of MIT

February 7, 2012

I still remember very clearly the key reason behind my decision to attend MIT about a decade ago. It was …

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I love nature and want to understand it through science. I also like writing about and sharing my views and experiences along this journey of understanding.

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