Friday, October 2, 2020

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

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Many readers of this blog live far from me—sometimes in countries on the other side of the world—and may not be interested in local topics g...
Friday, September 25, 2020

Comparative Anatomy is Largely the Story of the Struggle to Increase Surface in Proportion to Volume

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On Being the Right Size , by J. B. S. Haldane . J. B. S. Haldane ’s essay “ On Being the Right Size ” is a classic. In the first chapte...
Friday, September 18, 2020

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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Spillover , by David Quammen I recently read Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic , by David Quammen . This book was wri...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Charlotte's Web

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Charlotte's Web , by E. B. White “ Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig.”     ...
Friday, September 4, 2020

Xenon-Enhanced Computed Tomography

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Homework Problem 28 in Chapter 16 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology analyzes xenon-enhanced computed tomography . Section ...
Friday, August 28, 2020

An Advanced Undergraduate Laboratory in Living State Physics

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One weakness of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is that it doesn’t have an associated laboratory. Students need to learn how ...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Heaps of Precessing Protons

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Spin Dynamics , by Malcolm Levitt . Last week’s post quoted from Spin Dynamics: Basics of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance , by Malcolm Levitt . ...
Friday, August 14, 2020

Can T2 Be Longer Than T1?

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In Chapter 18 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss magnetic resonance imaging . A key process in MR...
Friday, August 7, 2020

The SI Logo

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology uses the metric system . On page 1, Russ Hobbie and I write “The metric system is official...