Friday, September 27, 2024

Taylor Diffusion

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In Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss Poiseuille flow : the flow of a viscous fluid in ...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Transitioning to Environmentally Sustainable, Climate-Smart Radiation Oncology Care

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“Transitioning to Environmentally Sustainable Climate-Smart Radiation Oncology Care,” by Lichter et al., IJROBP , 113:915–924, 2022. Loyal ...
Friday, September 13, 2024

The Million Person Study: Whence It Came and Why

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A screenshot of the article “How Sound is the Model Used to Establish Safe Radiation Levels? ” on the website physicsworld.com. Last fall, p...
Friday, September 6, 2024

Black Carbon and Radon

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Drawdown In a previous post , I reviewed the book Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming . Sometimes ...
Friday, August 30, 2024

Joe Redish (1943–2024)

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Edward “Joe” Redish , a University of Maryland physics professor, died August 24 of cancer. Joe has been mentioned many times in this blog...
Friday, August 23, 2024

The Song of the Dodo

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The Song of the Dodo , by David Quammem . One of my favorite science writers is David Quammen . I’ve discussed several of his books in this ...
Friday, August 16, 2024

Happy 100th Birthday Robert Adair

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Are Electromagnetic Fields Making Me Ill? This Wednesday will be the 100th anniversary of Robert Adair ’s birth. I wrote a blog post about A...
Friday, August 9, 2024

A Comparison of Two Models for Calculating the Electrical Potential in Skeletal Muscle

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Roth and Gielen, Annals of Biomedical Engineering , Volume 15, Pages 591–602, 1987 Today I want to tell you how Frans Gielen and I wrote th...