Friday, October 26, 2018

Earl Bakken (1924-2018)

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Earl Bakken. From the Bakken Museum, via wikipedia. Earl Bakken , cofounder of the medical device company Medtronic , died Sunday at the...
Friday, October 19, 2018

The Bond Number

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In graduate school, I did experiments on nerves submerged in saline . When dissecting or manipulating the tissue, I was amazed by the effect...
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Friday, October 12, 2018

A Trick to Generate Exam Problems

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . When teaching a class based on Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , instruct...
Friday, October 5, 2018

A Bidomain Model for the Extracellular Potential and Magnetic Field of Cardiac Tissue

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My research notebooks from graduate school. In graduate school, I worked with John Wikswo measuring the magnetic field of a nerve axon ...
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...