Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

In an appendix of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I analyze the Gaussian probability distribution It...

Yuan-Cheng Fung celebrated his 100 th birthday last Sunday. Biomechanics: Mechanical Properties of Living Tissues , by Y. C. Fung. ...

A New Website This summer I received an email from University Technology Services saying that faculty websites, like the one I maintain ab...

Certain topics discussed in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology always fascinate me. One is the linear no-threshold model . In Se...

The Book of Why , by Judea Pearl. At Russ Hobbie ’s suggestion, I read The Book of Why , by Judea Pearl . This book presents a new way ...

Godfrey Hounsfield (1919-2004). Wednesday, August 28, is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Godfrey Hounsfield , the inventor of...

What’s the biggest idea in science that’s not mentioned in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology ? Most of the grand principles of ...

Arthur Sherman My friend Arthur Sherman —who I knew when I worked at the National Institutes of Health in the 1990s—has won the Arthur ...

Can magnetic resonance imaging detect electrical activity in your brain? If so, it would be a breakthrough in neural recording, providing b...

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