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2026

My Top 10 Postsoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2026
The Machinery Underneath – update on my 2nd thermodynamics bookoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2026
Top 10 behaviors to achieve a successful careeroriginal ↗
28 Feb 2026

2025

The Machinery Underneath – update on my 2nd thermodynamics bookoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2025
Share your story! Tell us your mass and energy balance moment.original ↗
5 Nov 2025
The Machinery Underneath – update on my 2nd thermodynamics bookoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
Afterword to my bookoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2025
How Shannon’s entropy met Clausius’s entropy in one illustrationoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2025
Entropy = order (not dis-order)original ↗
6 Sept 2025
James Clerk Maxwell’s path to the Gaussian distributionoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2025
My Unanswered Questions – three updatesoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2025
Clausius, the gadfly, and the power of asking penetrating questionsoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2025
Work in Progress – Bear with me as I make changes to my websiteoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2025
“One data point is worth one thousand opinions” – guest writer contributionoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2025
How It Happened: The Geological Tale of Upstate New York (dedicated to Pat Bickford)original ↗
2 Jun 2025
Revisiting the kinetic theory of gasesoriginal ↗
9 May 2025
Five Years of Thermodynamics: Building the Bridge from Micro to Macrooriginal ↗
30 Apr 2025
“One data point is worth one thousand opinions” – three storiesoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2025
The Clausius-Clapeyron equation – explainedoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2025
Physical chemistry – a new field in scienceoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2025
Let’s treat the gap between where we are and where we could be as an inspiring call to actionoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2025
How We Used A.I. to Revolutionize Case Studies in Graduate Educationoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2025
Problem Solving – illustratedoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2025

2024

Dissemination of Gibbs’s work (Path 2):  Gibbs ➔ van der Waals ➔ Roozeboom ➔ communityoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2024
Dissemination of Gibbs’s work (Path 1):  Gibbs ➔ Maxwell ➔ Pupin ➔ Helmholtz ➔ van’t Hoff ➔ communityoriginal ↗
1 Dec 2024
How Gibbs’s work spread into the science communityoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2024
Why Gibbs’s maximum work equation continues to fascinate meoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2024
Gibbs’s 3rd Paper – not for the faint of heart!original ↗
20 Oct 2024
Clausius: “The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum” – a statement built on an assumptionoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2024
My favorite graph of J. Willard Gibbsoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2024
From steam to entropy: Creating a thermodynamics tour through Europe (and Yale)original ↗
29 Aug 2024
J. Willard Gibbs – setting the stageoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2024
The Unsung Legacy of Rudolf Clausiusoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2024
Professor Pat Bickford, lead isotopes, and the age of Earthoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2024
The birth of thermo-dynamics!original ↗
17 Jul 2024
Why was the science of heat conduction so difficult to comprehend?original ↗
19 Jun 2024
Building a thermodynamics syllabus on the atomic theory of matter – proposaloriginal ↗
9 Jun 2024
Why ask why?original ↗
1 Jun 2024
Reading Clausius – no easy featoriginal ↗
21 May 2024
Standing on the Shoulders of Mentors: Sadi Carnot’s Inspired Scienceoriginal ↗
8 May 2024