Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
Friday, August 14, 2026
A New Homework Problem and Some Bidomain History
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Russ Hobbie and I describe the bidomain model of cardiac tissue in Section 7.9 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . The bid...
Friday, August 7, 2026
How Bright is a Firefly? Resolving a Century of Overestimation
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“ How Bright is a Firefly? ” by David Silver. My favorite science journal is the American Journal of Physics . I was browsing through recent...
Friday, July 31, 2026
Marcello Malpighi and Capillaries
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Marcello Malpighi. When discussing distances and sizes in Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I w...
Friday, July 24, 2026
Magnetic Stimulation Using Microcoils: A Skeptical Review
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Magnetic Stimulation Using Microcoils: A Skeptical Review. Over the last decade I’ve written a lot in this blog about magnetic stimulation o...
Friday, July 17, 2026
George Benedek (1928–2026)
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Physics with Illustrative Examples from Medicine and Biology , by Benedek and Villars. George Benedek passed away on July 5 at the age of 9...
Friday, July 10, 2026
MKUltra, Anti-Science, and Mind Control
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MKUltra (pronouced M-K-ultra) was a covert Central Intelligence Agency research program carried out between 1953 and 1973 to investigate ...
Friday, July 3, 2026
The Semiquincentennial
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Tomorrow we celebrate our country’s 250th birthday; the United States Semiquincentennial . Happy 4th of July to you all. I hope you have so...
Friday, June 26, 2026
Methodological Guidelines for Circadian Modeling of Daylight Saving Time
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“Methodological Guidelines for Circadian Modeling of Daylight Saving Time: Application to the United States” Most mornings I get an email ...
Friday, June 19, 2026
The Rest of the Story 6
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Ed was born in Taylorville , a small town in central Illinois, in 1912. Some of his earliest memories were of scavenging electronic equipmen...
Friday, June 12, 2026
A New Homework Problem on Modeling
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Russ Hobbie and I like to use the homework problems in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology to illustrate modeling . But rarely d...
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