Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

The Genetic Effects of Radiation , by Isaac Asimov. My local public library had their quarterly used book sale last weekend, and as ...

Three years ago I wrote a blog post about a crazy Stanford engineer, Manu Prakash , who developed a paper origami microscope called “ fol...

In Chapter 8 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss transcranial magnetic stimulation .  Since a ch...

Over the Christmas break I discovered a blog written under the pen name Neuroskeptic . Neuroskeptic is a British neuroscientist who takes...

The Story of the World in 100 Species , by Christopher Lloyd. I recently finished reading The Story of the World in 100 Species . The ...

When I worked at the National Institutes of Health in the 1990s, I studied transcranial magnetic stimulation . Russ Hobbie and I discuss m...

A figure from Barry et al. , PNAS , 113:14133-14138, 2016. Last week in this blog , I discussed using a wire-wound toroid to measure th...

In Section 8.9 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the detection of weak magnetic fields. If the...

Selected Papers of Great American Physicists . When I was in college, I was given a book published by the American Institute of Physics...

In my more contemplative moments, I sometimes ponder: who am I? Or perhaps better: what am I? In my personal life I am many things: son, hus...