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My info
I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. I moved to a suburb, Stickney, when I was in High School. That
meant I transfered from Tilden Technical High School near the Chicago Stockyards, to J. S. Morton in Cicero during my second
year. Due to the transfer, I could no longer graduate in the winter so I did some summer school and graduated in 3 1/2
years. I went to the Illinois Institute of Technology on a Regular NROTC Scholarship, chose the USMC option and was
commissioned a Regular Officer when I graduated in 1957. I served the obligated three years and then entered graduate
studies in Physiology at the University of Chicago in 1960. I was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1963 and
went the work on postdoctoral studies in Membrane Biophysics with Aaron Katchalsky at the Weizmann Institute for Science ,
from 1963 to 1965. I came back early because I was concerned about the Vietnam War and took my first faculty job in
Biophysics at SUNY Buffalo, NY. I also was a leader in the anti-war/civil rights movement and have been active in progressive
politics ever since. In 1968-1969 I taught Mathematics and Physics at a predominantly Black College, Philander Smith,
in Little Rock Arkansas. I went from there to The Biohysical Lab at Harvard Medical School; then to Meharry Medical
College and finally to the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University in 1973. I did sabbaticals
in Paris at the University of Paris and the College of France with Claude Gary-Bobo, the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics
in Frankfurt, Germany with Fritz Sauer, and at the University of Rouen, France with Michel Thellier. I also taught at
the 10 day Poland Schools on Membrane Biophysics annually and then ever other year during the period 1974-1986.
About this blog
This blog is for people to share ideas. I am philosophically a holist so no topic is excluded. My
scientific work has overflowed into looking at people's world views and this means that I am interested in why people believe
what they do. My holistic philosophy makes me want to see the interaction in thought processes in all areas. The
artificial lines between science, religion, philosophy, politics, and othger compartments that human thought has been forced
into by reductionism are of no real use in this context. We are each a being with thoughts and feelings. The world
has required us to compartmentalize those thoughts and ideas and this often leads to a forgetting that they all are part of
one being. The fundamental rule for human interaction is that we respect each other's person and if we try to change
anyoneone we must be ready to be changed by them in return. If we violate this, we are seeking to control the other
and that is not welcome here.
Here I'll describe why I started this blog and describe the topics I'm primarily interested in covering in it.
I have been discussing on line and blogging for a long time. I also publish papers in scientific journals, edit and
write books, and give lectures. This blog is a place where I hope to interact with others and explore ideas without
having limits to the topics we use to break down our being into for the purpose of that interaction. I'll refine this
as time goes on.
This is a picture of me. I am wearing my John Kerry cap so you know how old it is. I'll have to get a new
one with a Barack Obama cap. I am a member of the Mathews county Democratic committee so I'll be backing John Warner
for Senate and, hopefully, a candidate for the Frist Congressional District seat as well.
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