Friday, July 26, 2019

The Oxford English Dictionary

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The Meaning of Everything, by Simon Winchester. I’m a fan of Simon Winchester , and I recently finished his book The Meaning of Everyth...
Friday, July 19, 2019

The 5G Health Hazard That Isn’t

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Screenshot of the start of the article "The 5G Health Hazard That Isn’t" by William Broad in the New York Times . A recent a...
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Friday, July 12, 2019

The Fifth Solvay Conference

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Participants at the Fifth Solvay Conference in 1927. This iconic photograph taken at the Fifth Solvay Conference shows the greatest gat...
Friday, July 5, 2019

The Biophysics and Pathophysiology of Lesion Formation During Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation

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This week I went with a group of Oakland University undergraduates—part of an American Heart Association -funded summer research program—to...
Friday, June 28, 2019

The Innovators

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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution , by Walter Isaacson . Computers play a larg...
Friday, June 21, 2019

More About Implantable Microcoils for Intracortical Magnetic Stimulation

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Three years ago, I wrote a post in this blog discussing an article by Seung Woo Lee and his coworkers (“ Implantable Microcoils for Intra...
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Friday, June 14, 2019

Isotopes to Worry About: Cesium-137, Iodine-131, and Strontium-90

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Three hazardous isotopes released by a nuclear explosion or accident are cesium-137 , iodine-131 , and strontium-90 . Cesium-137 Isoto...
Friday, June 7, 2019

Slice Selection During Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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In Chapter 18 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss magnetic resonance imaging . The first step in m...