health
when young to live well, when old to die well
By bluerasberry on October 20, 2010
The University of Washington Alumni Association does these environmental lectures every year. The series is on Tuesday nights for eight weeks. Last year the talks were about coffee and I went to all of them and they were great. This year it is about top-level economic policy on food production, and the series is called [...]
Posted in health, presentation, Seattle | Tagged lecture
By bluerasberry on August 7, 2010
The Seattle Century is a 100 mile bicycle tour organized this year as a fundraiser for Bikeworks, which is a non-profit organizing which promotes cycling for young people. There were participation levels for 50 and 100 miles; I did the 50 mile on July 31, the day of the event. Registration for the event was [...]
Posted in health, non-profit, tour | Tagged ecotourism, fundraiser, sport
By bluerasberry on April 4, 2010
On Saturday April 3 I went to a conference sponsored by Supreme Master Ching Hai in UW’s Meany Hall. I found out about the conference from handbills and posters that were circulating around the neighborhood. It was advertised as a series of lectures on environmentalism, vegetarianism, sports fitness, and family fun on paper and on [...]
Posted in health, non-profit, presentation, religion | Tagged environment, Hinduism, leader, lecture, logistics, proselytize, water
By bluerasberry on February 26, 2010
Seattle Biomed, which until a few months ago branded itself as SBRI for Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, regularly hosts public education sessions targeted at laymen. I went to a lecture series called “Global Health 101″ which they hosted on Thursday, February 25. The format was that they had snacks and a social, then an introductory [...]
Posted in education, encounter, health, non-profit, presentation | Tagged Belltown, global health, lecture, Seattle Biomed, wealth, wine
By bluerasberry on November 20, 2009
The fall conference for the HIV Vaccine Trials Network was here in Seattle November 16-18. This was my second time attending. Conferences like these really get me excited. Part of the fun is in meeting new people who have total expectation of basing a social relationship on the exchange of information. Sometimes I feel like [...]
Posted in education, health, HIV, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged conference, HVTN, vaccine
By bluerasberry on October 9, 2009
I went to a conference on eugenics organized by the University of Washington’s department of disability studies. The focus of the conference was the history of eugenics as applied to Washington state law and state-funded projects. The structure of the lecture was that about 8 historians were present on two panels. Each panel was introduced [...]
Posted in health, rights, Seattle | Tagged delerium, prison, women's rights
By bluerasberry on September 18, 2009
On Tuesday September 16 from 9-10am immediately before opening I toured Insite’s facility in Vancouver. Insite is an organization which provides a location and equipment for persons wishing to inject themselves with illegal drugs such as heroin, cocaine, or methamphetamine. Insite philosophy incorporates harm reduction models with both humanitarian and economical objectives. Insite for Community [...]
Posted in drug, health, HIV, non-profit, research, rights, Vancouver | Tagged civil rights, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine
By bluerasberry on September 16, 2009
On Thursday September 10 I had my wisdom teeth removed at the University of Washington Medical Center. Since my current job makes me medically insured for the first time in my life, I went for routine dental care and the dentist recommended that I have a panoramic x-ray. That showed that my teeth were impacted, [...]
Posted in drug, health | Tagged blood
By bluerasberry on June 29, 2009
I spent Gay Pride this year at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center booth recruiting for people who might be interested in receiving an experimental HIV vaccine. The general criteria is that we are looking for people of all genders and sexual orientations who are between the ages of 18-50 and who are willing to [...]
Posted in drug, education, festival, health, HIV, non-profit, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged Gay Pride, HIV, vaccine
By bluerasberry on May 21, 2009
On Wednesday May 20 I went on a tour of the Hanford Site. This is a decommissioned nuclear reactor on the Columbia River in south-central Washington which had the sole mission of creating plutonium for weapons. The B Reactor there was the first large scale reactor built for this purpose; it was created for the [...]
Posted in education, health, museum, presentation | Tagged military, science, tour