Friday, March 20, 2026

Asimov on Writing Essays

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I have now written over one thousand blog posts about Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . That’s a lot of posts; one a week for ...
Friday, March 13, 2026

Catching Up With David Goodsell

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It’s been nine years since I wrote a post about scientific illustrator David Goodsell . That’s too long. Russ Hobbie and I cite his wonder...
Friday, March 6, 2026

Action Current Propagation Across an Electrical Synapse: Magnetic Measurement on a Septated Earthworm Axon

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It’s been 40 years since I attended the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting in San Francisco (February 9–13, 1986), coauthoring a poster abo...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Igor Tamm, Biological Physicist

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“How Physicists Became Biologists” by Istvan Hargittai. One goal of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology is to illustrate the clos...
Friday, February 20, 2026

The American Institute of Physics Publishing Award for Exceptional Contributions to Biophysics and Bioengineering

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This weekend at the Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco, John Wikswo will receive The American Institute of Physics Publishing ...
Friday, February 13, 2026

Sneak Peak at the New Chapter About Surface Tension in the 6th Edition of IPMB

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The first page of Chapter 2 about surface tension in the sixth edition of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . For those interest...
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Friday, February 6, 2026

Salk's 1954 Polio Clincal Trial

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Viruses are rarely mentioned in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . We do discuss them in the very first section of the book, w...
Friday, January 30, 2026

If Anything Is Proven, Climate Science Is Proven

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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , being a textbook, talks a lot about scientific theories, models, and facts, but not much abo...
Friday, January 23, 2026

Walter Gilbert, Biological Physicist

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Walter Gilbert,  provided to Wikimedia  by the Science History  Institute as part of a cooperation project . I like to collect examples of...
Friday, January 16, 2026

Magnetism and its Effects on the Living System

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In this blog, I’ve discussed several people who promote pseudoscience related to health effects of electric and magnetic fields , including...