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(What is biophysics? #1)", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2021/12/17/how-can-you-push-dna-through-jello-what-is-biophysics-1/", "published_at": "2021-12-17T23:55:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-f04a-7114-a4e7-67abb016dcea", "title": "Pushed around by stars", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2021/11/29/pushed-around-by-stars/", "published_at": "2021-11-29T03:02:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-f04b-7067-bef8-e183b7cd582f", "title": "When Should You Make a Plot of p-values? Never.", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2021/11/03/when-should-you-make-a-plot-of-p-values-never/", "published_at": "2021-11-03T05:27:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-f04b-7067-bef8-e183b85dc751", "title": "Living Gels", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2021/10/15/living-gels/", "published_at": "2021-10-15T03:56:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-f04b-7067-bef8-e183b95ca4ee", "title": "Course Recap: Physics of Solar and Renewable Energies, Spring 2021", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2021/08/22/course-recap-physics-of-solar-and-renewable-energies-spring-2021/", "published_at": "2021-08-22T16:50:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-f04b-7067-bef8-e183b979ab57", "title": "Graphs about out-of-state college students and money", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2021/06/27/graphs-about-out-of-state-college-students-and-money/", "published_at": "2021-06-27T21:46:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-f04b-7067-bef8-e183ba408a96", "title": "“So Simple A Beginning,” A Popular Science Book about Biophysics", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2021/06/20/so-simple-a-beginning-a-popular-science-book-about-biophysics/", "published_at": "2021-06-20T23:09:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-f04b-7067-bef8-e183bb30bf25", "title": "Welcome to Biophysics! — A “Resource Letter”", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2021/05/09/welcome-to-biophysics-a-resource-letter/", "published_at": "2021-05-09T02:35:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54c-f04b-7067-bef8-e183bbf36806", "title": "Course Recap: Physics of Energy and the Environment, Winter 2021", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2021/04/16/course-recap-physics-of-energy-and-the-environment-spring-2021/", "published_at": "2021-04-16T20:28:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-6579-71bf-8902-b25d0504f638", "title": "A Puzzle about Paris and Climate", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2021/03/24/a-puzzle-about-paris-and-climate/", "published_at": "2021-03-24T18:45:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-6579-71bf-8902-b25d051c8ed2", "title": "Tossing Starfish from the Tidepools — Gut Microbiome Edition", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2021/03/19/tossing-starfish-from-the-tidepools-gut-microbiome-edition/", "published_at": "2021-03-19T16:00:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-6579-71bf-8902-b25d05cda297", "title": "Pop-Science Biophysics, now with a title!", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2021/03/01/pop-science-biophysics-now-with-a-title/", "published_at": "2021-03-01T20:23:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-6579-71bf-8902-b25d06906c3c", "title": "The Year in Books, 2020", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2021/01/01/the-year-in-books-2020/", "published_at": "2021-01-01T22:30:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-6579-71bf-8902-b25d072581b3", "title": "Book Update: Untitled Biophysics", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2020/12/18/book-update-untitled-biophysics/", "published_at": "2020-12-18T21:01:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-6579-71bf-8902-b25d079c5a74", "title": "Comments on over-interpreting results, correlation and causation, and concluding remarks — “Ten common statistical mistakes…” #9-10", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2020/11/30/comments-on-over-interpreting-results-correlation-and-causation-and-concluding-remarks-ten-common-statistical-mistakes-9-10/", "published_at": "2020-11-30T02:09:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-6579-71bf-8902-b25d080d4eb7", "title": "Comments on “Failure to Correct for Multiple Comparisons” — “Ten common statistical mistakes…” #8", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2020/11/20/comments-on-failure-to-correct-for-multiple-comparisons-ten-common-statistical-mistakes-8/", "published_at": "2020-11-20T16:23:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-6579-71bf-8902-b25d089e6633", "title": "Comments on “p-Hacking (Flexibility of Analysis)” — “Ten common statistical mistakes…” #7", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2020/11/13/comments-on-p-hacking-flexibility-of-analysis-ten-common-statistical-mistakes-7/", "published_at": "2020-11-13T16:36:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-6579-71bf-8902-b25d090b7d80", "title": "Comments on “Circular Analysis” — “Ten common statistical mistakes…” #6", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2020/11/05/comments-on-circular-analysis-ten-common-statistical-mistakes-6/", "published_at": "2020-11-05T18:11:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c555-6579-71bf-8902-b25d09e0ba41", "title": "Physics, Face Masks, and a Fun Exercise", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2020/11/03/physics-face-masks-and-a-fun-exercise/", "published_at": "2020-11-03T04:05:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-bd14-70db-adbe-f9dd135de878", "title": "Comments on “Small Samples” — “Ten common statistical mistakes…” #5", "url": "https://eighteenthelephant.com/2020/10/28/comments-on-small-samples-ten-common-statistical-mistakes-5/", "published_at": "2020-10-28T00:09:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c55d-bd14-70db-adbe-f9dd13e707d2", "title": "Comments on “Ten common statistical mistakes…”: #4", "url": 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2026

Vice Presidents Flourish at the University of Oregonoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2026
The idiocy of space mirrors continuesoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2026
A historical course enrollment visualizeroriginal ↗
26 May 2026
Online courses, supply and demand, and academic integrityoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2026
Space mirrors, solar panels, fools, and their moneyoriginal ↗
12 Mar 2026
Some Like it Hot: Plant Editionoriginal ↗
13 Jan 2026
The Year in Books, 2025, in which I learned about workoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2026

2025

Remembering the year when I almost went on strikeoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2025
Reading Like It’s 1937original ↗
17 Oct 2025
Some data on homework and its correlationsoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2025
Course Recap: Physics of Solar and Renewable Energies, Spring 2025original ↗
18 Jul 2025
An Informal Overview of US Science Fundingoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2025
Are we missing 400 students?original ↗
6 May 2025
The most important, and the most pointless, course I’ve taughtoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2025
The Bright Side of Life (Literally)original ↗
4 Mar 2025
Why Don’t Academics Care About Artificial Intelligence?original ↗
3 Feb 2025
Image Analysis Course Recap, Fall 2024original ↗
10 Jan 2025

2024

The Year in Books, 2024original ↗
31 Dec 2024
A gut-wrenching tale of bacteria and immune cellsoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2024
What I did on Thursdayoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics — Yes, Physics!original ↗
9 Oct 2024
Is Our University President Poorly Paid?original ↗
1 Sept 2024
The Active Seating Zone (An Educational Experiment)original ↗
31 Jul 2024
A strike, avertedoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2024
AI and exams in May 2024original ↗
22 May 2024
Insulin is an abomination: Recent bad news about foodoriginal ↗
10 May 2024
Course recap: “The Physics of Life” Winter 2024original ↗
31 Mar 2024
Enhance Your Productivity by Ignoring Biophysicsoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2024
Recap of a Graduate (and Undergraduate!) Biological Physics Courseoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2024

2023

The Year in Books, 2023original ↗
31 Dec 2023
How did we make reading genomes a million times cheaper? — What is biophysics? #18original ↗
15 Dec 2023
How can one nose make so much mucus? — What is biophysics? #17original ↗
1 Dec 2023
Can viruses explode? — What is biophysics? #16original ↗
27 Oct 2023
Zoom Interview Questions and Other STEM Faculty Hiring Tidbitsoriginal ↗
3 Oct 2023
Statistical Mechanics Has a Good Beat and You Can Dance To Itoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2023
A Few Flavors of Microscopes — SAIL recap, 2023original ↗
31 Aug 2023
How does a bacterium find its center? — What is biophysics? #15original ↗
2 Jul 2023
Reading Like It’s 1965original ↗
22 Jun 2023
If you care about the environment, and you don’t care about numbers, do you care about the environment?original ↗
10 Jun 2023
Introduction to Biological Physics — an old and new courseoriginal ↗
28 May 2023
Book inflationoriginal ↗
10 May 2023
ChatGPT takes my Energy and the Environment final examoriginal ↗
12 Apr 2023
“Eighty percent of success is showing up” — Physics of Energy and the Environment, Winter 2023original ↗
29 Mar 2023
What sets the speed of thought? — What is biophysics? #14original ↗
22 Mar 2023
College Major Trends: The Movieoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2023
10 Double the number of Computer Science majors / 20 GOTO 10original ↗
12 Feb 2023
Majors at [Your Ad Here] U. of Oregon, 2011-2021original ↗
4 Feb 2023
How can a swarm swarm? — What is biophysics? #13original ↗
5 Jan 2023

2022

The Year in Books, 2022, in which I discovered audiobooksoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2022
Image Analysis Course Recap, Fall 2022original ↗
19 Dec 2022
How to build a gut microbiome in 119 easy stepsoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2022
Can a Molecule Walk? — What is biophysics? #12original ↗
11 Nov 2022
Do Sea Stars See? — What is biophysics? #11original ↗
21 Oct 2022
The Case For, and the Case Against, “The Case Against Education”original ↗
13 Oct 2022
Things Fall Apart; The Bacterial Cluster Cannot Holdoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2022
How Big Is Your Genome? — What is biophysics? #10original ↗
16 Aug 2022
Three views of a statistics puzzleoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2022
How are tears like salad dressing? — What is biophysics? #9original ↗
15 Jul 2022
How are tears like ketchup? — What is biophysics? #8original ↗
8 Jul 2022
Are molecules ever still? — What is biophysics? #7original ↗
9 Jun 2022
Books I Like about Energy, Climate, and Civilizationoriginal ↗
21 May 2022
Can you see single photons? — What is biophysics? #6original ↗
6 May 2022
What does the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle have to do with microscopy?original ↗
17 Apr 2022
The perils of online learning, in one graphoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2022
Are Ants Really So Strong? — What is biophysics? #5original ↗
13 Mar 2022
The Physicality of Lifeoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2022
Why is your heart on your left side? (Or is it?) — What is biophysics? #4original ↗
18 Jan 2022
Can a brainless bacterium navigate? (What is biophysics? #3)original ↗
10 Jan 2022
Image Analysis: Reflections on a New Courseoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2022

2021

The Year in Books, 2021original ↗
31 Dec 2021
What’s the shape of a protein? (What is biophysics? #2)original ↗
24 Dec 2021
How can you push DNA through Jello? (What is biophysics? #1)original ↗
17 Dec 2021
Pushed around by starsoriginal ↗
29 Nov 2021
When Should You Make a Plot of p-values? Never.original ↗
3 Nov 2021
Living Gelsoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2021
Course Recap: Physics of Solar and Renewable Energies, Spring 2021original ↗
22 Aug 2021
Graphs about out-of-state college students and moneyoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2021
“So Simple A Beginning,” A Popular Science Book about Biophysicsoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2021
Welcome to Biophysics! — A “Resource Letter”original ↗
9 May 2021
Course Recap: Physics of Energy and the Environment, Winter 2021original ↗
16 Apr 2021
A Puzzle about Paris and Climateoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2021
Tossing Starfish from the Tidepools — Gut Microbiome Editionoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2021
Pop-Science Biophysics, now with a title!original ↗
1 Mar 2021
The Year in Books, 2020original ↗
1 Jan 2021

2020

Book Update: Untitled Biophysicsoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2020
Comments on over-interpreting results, correlation and causation, and concluding remarks — “Ten common statistical mistakes…” #9-10original ↗
30 Nov 2020
Comments on “Failure to Correct for Multiple Comparisons” — “Ten common statistical mistakes…” #8original ↗
20 Nov 2020
Comments on “p-Hacking (Flexibility of Analysis)” — “Ten common statistical mistakes…” #7original ↗
13 Nov 2020
Comments on “Circular Analysis” — “Ten common statistical mistakes…” #6original ↗
5 Nov 2020
Physics, Face Masks, and a Fun Exerciseoriginal ↗
3 Nov 2020
Comments on “Small Samples” — “Ten common statistical mistakes…” #5original ↗
28 Oct 2020
Comments on “Ten common statistical mistakes…”: #4original ↗
22 Oct 2020
Comments on “Ten common statistical mistakes…”: #3original ↗
15 Oct 2020
CRISPR, the Nobel Prize, and the “Forgotten Man”original ↗
7 Oct 2020
Comments on “Ten common statistical mistakes…”: #1 and #2original ↗
7 Oct 2020
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alternative Careers, and Active Learningoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2020
What’s the point of a first-year physics class?original ↗
17 Aug 2020
Book draft done!original ↗
9 Jul 2020
Two graphs about on-line learningoriginal ↗
21 May 2020
An informal image analysis courseoriginal ↗
5 May 2020
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