Friday, September 28, 2018

Steven Strogatz Lectures on Youtube

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Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos . Previously ( here , here , and here ), I’ve written about Steven Strogatz , Professor of Applied Mathemat...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Quick Calculus

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In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I assume the reader knows calculus . Some readers, however, have weak or...
Friday, September 14, 2018

Gulliver was a Bad Biologist

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Gulliver ’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. Most of my reading is nonfiction , but recently I read Jonathan Swift ’s Gulliver’s Travels . Th...
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Friday, September 7, 2018

Microwave Weapons are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers

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Last Saturday, The New York Times published an article by Pulitzer Prize -winning science writer William Broad with the headline “ Micro...
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Friday, August 31, 2018

Interface between Physics and Biology: Training a New Generation of Creative Bilingual Scientists

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The journal Trends in Cell Biology publishes a type of article called Scientific Life. The journal website states : Interface between Ph...
Friday, August 24, 2018

Baring the Sole: The Rise and Fall of the Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope

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A homework problem in Chapter 16 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology asks the student to estimate the dose experienced by cu...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Scientific Babel

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Scientific Babel , by Michael Gordin. Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , and this blog , are written in English . As far a...
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Friday, August 10, 2018

Craps

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . This week I spent three days in Las Vegas . I know you’ll be shocked... shocke d !.....
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