Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
Friday, May 29, 2026
James Keener (1946–2026)
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Mathematical Physiology , by Keener and Sneyd. James Keener died in April. He was a biomathematician who worked at the University of Utah ...
Friday, May 22, 2026
Toy Models
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Using Math in Physics: 4. Toy Models, by Joe Redish . In Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I introduce many ...
Friday, May 15, 2026
Elective MRI Screening of the General Public—Buyer Beware
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Elective MRI Screening of the General Public—Buyer Beware. I saw an article by Matthew Davenport and Scott Reeder published recently in J...
Friday, May 8, 2026
IPMB Machete Order
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What’s the best order to watch the Star War movies? Aficionados have been arguing about this for years. (In fact, this debate raged before...
Friday, May 1, 2026
Oh My! I Was Wrong
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Recently, there has been a brouhaha about “Ghost Murmur,” a proposed way to detect the magnetic field of a human heart from miles away. I wa...
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...
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