I have made some adjustments to the blogroll. It turns out that physicists, to a greater extent than chemists, have taken up the craft of blogging.  Why chemists seem less inclined to blog remains unclear.  This tendency is seen on the shelves of book stores as well.  Whereas, bookstore science shelves are clogged with treatises on Quantum _____ (fill in the blank), works on chemistry are often limited to chemical dictionaries or Schaums Outlines.  Here in Colorado, where the per capita college education is reasonably high, in certain counties at least, urban bookstores may have chemistry titles that go ever so slightly beyond the study guides and dictionaries. 

It seems to me that many of the popular quantum mechanics books on the market are peddling to people looking for a mystical experience.  Fred Alan Wolf and a few others have made a career of feeding this need.  I recall the quote by Niels Bohr-

“‘There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature.“. 

But I’ve ventured out on a limb. I am but a lowly synthetic organic chemist, a plebian scribbler in the scientific pecking order, who has not used a Hamiltonian operator or a Kroniker delta since grad school. My fragmented knowledge of quantum mechanical formalism is but a mote in the eye of Schrodingers cat.

Note: I’ve deleted The Volokh Conspiracy from the blogroll. They have developed an unfortunate neocon twitch that I find distasteful.