Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology

Friday, July 31, 2026

Marcello Malpighi and Capillaries

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Marcello Malpighi. When discussing distances and sizes in Chapter 1 of Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology , Russ Hobbie and I w...
Friday, July 24, 2026

Magnetic Stimulation Using Microcoils: A Skeptical Review

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Magnetic Stimulation Using Microcoils: A Skeptical Review. Over the last decade I’ve written a lot in this blog about magnetic stimulation o...
Friday, July 17, 2026

George Benedek (1928–2026)

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Physics with Illustrative Examples from Medicine and Biology , by Benedek and Villars. George Benedek passed away on July 5 at the age of 9...
Friday, July 10, 2026

MKUltra, Anti-Science, and Mind Control

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MKUltra (pronouced M-K-ultra) was a covert  Central Intelligence Agency  research program carried out between 1953 and 1973 to investigate ...
Friday, July 3, 2026

The Semiquincentennial

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Tomorrow we celebrate our country’s 250th birthday; the United States Semiquincentennial . Happy 4th of July to you all. I hope you have so...
Friday, June 26, 2026

Methodological Guidelines for Circadian Modeling of Daylight Saving Time

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“Methodological Guidelines  for Circadian Modeling  of Daylight Saving Time: Application to the United States” Most mornings I get an email ...
Friday, June 19, 2026

The Rest of the Story 6

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Ed was born in Taylorville , a small town in central Illinois, in 1912. Some of his earliest memories were of scavenging electronic equipmen...
Friday, June 12, 2026

A New Homework Problem on Modeling

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Russ Hobbie and I like to use the homework problems in Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology to illustrate modeling . But rarely d...
Friday, June 5, 2026

Grandparents For Vaccines

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For the last six months, I’ve been the Michigan Representative of the volunteer group Grandparents For Vaccines . Our group’s mission is to ...
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 ...
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Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology
I am an emeritus professor of physics at Oakland University, and coauthor of the textbook Intermediate Physics for Medicine and Biology. The purpose of this blog is specifically to support and promote my textbook, and in general to illustrate applications of physics to medicine and biology.
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