Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

The goal of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , and the goal of this blog, is to explore the interface between physics, medicine...

One topic that appears over and over again throughout Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is cancer . In Section 8.8, Russ Hobbi...

Harry was born and raised in England and attended the best schools. After excelling at Summer Fields School , he won a King’s Scholarship t...

When I was measuring the magnetic field of a nerve axon in graduate school, I wondered if I should worry about a nerve’s inductance . Put a...

Random Walks in Biology , by Howard Berg . In last week’s blog post , I told you about the recent death of Howard Berg , author of Random Wa...

Random Walks in Biology , by Howard Berg . Look up at the picture of books at the top of this blog, showing my ideal bookshelf . You see Int...

Bully for Brontosaurus , by Stephen Jay Gould . I have written previously in this blog about my admiration for evolutionary biologist Steph...

Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life , by Gerald Pollack. I recently read Gerald Pollack ’s book Cells, Gels and the Engines of Life: A New, ...

Adrianus Kalmijn , a biophysicist known for his studies of electroreception in sharks , died December 7, 2021, at the age of 88. In Chapt...

Tonight is Christmas Eve.  At this time of the year, I think of the great English physicist Michael Faraday giving the Royal Institution Ch...