Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

In Chapter 14 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss vision. In particular, we analyze the refraction...

MRI pioneer Peter Mansfield died last week. Russ Hobbie and I mention Mansfield in Chapter 18 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Bio...

When I worked at the National Institutes of Health , one of my coworkers had a sign in his office that read “Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick Any Two...

Alan Perelson , of Los Alamos National Laboratory , has been named the winner of the 2017 Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics by the A...

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...