Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Recently, there has been a brouhaha about “Ghost Murmur,” a proposed way to detect the magnetic field of a human heart from miles away. I wa...

Evangelista Torricelli.  In Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the units of pressure . ...

Henry Oldenburg. I’ve had many research articles published in scientific journals, and each one of them was peer reviewed . This means the j...

Russ Hobbie and I discuss the electrical behavior of the heart in Chapter 7 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . We focus a l...

This story isn't worth a whole post, but the claim of "ghost murmur" technology used to save an American pilot in Iran was obv...

The Big One , by Osterholm and Olshaker. I’ve been reading The Big One: How We Must Prepare For Future Deadly Pandemics , by Michael Osterho...

In Homework Problem 20 of Chapter 1 in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I refer to  Hooke’s law , which rela...

I have now written over one thousand blog posts about Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . That’s a lot of posts; one a week for ...

It’s been nine years since I wrote a post about scientific illustrator David Goodsell . That’s too long. Russ Hobbie and I cite his wonder...

It’s been 40 years since I attended the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Francisco (February 9–13, 1986), coauthoring a poster abo...