Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
Friday, April 24, 2026
Evangelista Torricelli and the Torr
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Evangelista Torricelli. In Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I discuss the units of pressure . ...
Friday, April 17, 2026
Henry Oldenburg, Inventor of Peer Review
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Henry Oldenburg. I’ve had many research articles published in scientific journals, and each one of them was peer reviewed . This means the j...
Friday, April 10, 2026
Digital Twin-Guided Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia
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Russ Hobbie and I discuss the electrical behavior of the heart in Chapter 7 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology . We focus a l...
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Ghost Murmur
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This story isn't worth a whole post, but the claim of "ghost murmur" technology used to save an American pilot in Iran was obv...
Friday, April 3, 2026
The Big One
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The Big One , by Osterholm and Olshaker. I’ve been reading The Big One: How We Must Prepare For Future Deadly Pandemics , by Michael Osterho...
Friday, March 27, 2026
Robert Hooke, Biological Physicist
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In Homework Problem 20 of Chapter 1 in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I refer to Hooke’s law , which rela...
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...
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