Friday, January 26, 2024

Craig Henriquez (1959–2023)

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I just learned that my friend Craig Henriquez passed away last summer. Craig earned his PhD at Duke University in their Department of Bio...
Friday, January 19, 2024

The Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max Accident

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Last week, the plug door panel on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max airplane detached during flight, leaving a gaping hole in the side of ...
Friday, January 12, 2024

The First Log-Log Plot

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In Chapter 2 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss log-log plots . Have you ever wondered who made t...
Friday, January 5, 2024

Basic Rheology for Biologists

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Cell Mechanics . In Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss ideal solids and ideal liquids. ...
Friday, December 29, 2023

Special Relativity in IPMB

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Electricity and Magnetism , by Edward Purcell. In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I rarely discuss special...
Friday, December 22, 2023

An IPMB Episode of Meeting of Minds

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A few weeks ago, I published a blog post about the television show Meeting of Minds . That show from the late 1970s was created and hosted ...
Friday, December 15, 2023

The Three Laws of Thermodynamics

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Thermodynamics is often summarized in three laws. Do Russ Hobbie and I discuss the three laws of thermodynamics in Intermediate Physics f...
Friday, December 8, 2023

One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

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One Hot Summer , by Rosemary Ashton . I recently finished Rosemary Ashton ’s book One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great S...