Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Science Under Siege , by Michael Mann and Peter Hotez. I recently finished reading Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful ...

Last November, right after the Presidential election, I wrote a blog post about trusted information on public health . In that post, I featu...

The Age of Reason Begins , by Will and Ariel Durant . The title of this week’s post is ironic, because with all the events of the last few m...

I’m used to thinking about climate change from a physics perspective: what technologies can we use to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide a...

In last week’s blog post about A Toy Model for Climate Change , I wrote “The main constituents of the atmosphere—oxygen and nitrogen—are tr...

Introduction A screenshot of the online book Math for the People . In Introductory Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I mak...

“Transitioning to Environmentally Sustainable Climate-Smart Radiation Oncology Care,” by Lichter et al., IJROBP , 113:915–924, 2022. Loyal ...

A screenshot of the article “How Sound is the Model Used to Establish Safe Radiation Levels? ” on the website physicsworld.com. Last fall, p...

Drawdown In a previous post , I reviewed the book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming . Sometimes ...