Friday, March 27, 2009

Sigma Xi

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Here at Oakland University , this Tuesday, March 31, is our annual Sigma Xi lecture (4 P.M. in 201 Dodge Hall of Engineering). Each year, w...
Friday, March 20, 2009

The West-Brown-Enquist Model for Allometric Scaling

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Chapter 2 of the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology ends with a section on “Food Consumption, Basal Metabolic Rat...
Friday, March 13, 2009

The Discovery of Technetium

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In the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the biomedical properties of the element t...
Friday, March 6, 2009

NCRP Report No. 160

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In past entries to this blog, I have reported on a growing controversy over radiation exposure from medical procedures. On December 7, 2007 ...
Friday, February 27, 2009

Hello to the Medical Physics 2 Class at Ball State University

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Russ Hobbie and I would like to thank those instructors and students who use the 4th edition of  Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Bio...
Friday, February 20, 2009

Allan Cormack

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This Monday (February 23) will mark the 85th anniversary of the birth of Allan Cormack (1924–1998), who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physio...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Image Gently

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The December 7, 2007 entry of this blog addressed a controversy over the safety of computed tomography scans, particularly for children. ...
Friday, February 6, 2009

Darwin Day

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The Origin of Species , by Charles Darwin. Thursday, Feb 12, is Darwin Day : the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin ’s birth. This yea...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Lady Luck

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Lady Luck , by Warren Weaver. At the bottom of page 50 in the 4th edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is a short f...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Citation Classic Commentaries

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From 1977 to 1993, thousands of Citation Classic Commentaries appeared in Current Contents , a database of journal tables of contents origi...