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By bluerasberry on November 13, 2011
The HVTN conference was from November 7-9. I was there every day. It was cool and I learned stuff but of course the point of a conference is meeting people and making plans together. There was a meetup in the conference which was only for people who are involved in community education, so no scientists. [...]
Posted in HIV, presentation, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, HVTN
By bluerasberry on October 19, 2011
I went to see Joanne Silberner at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation tonight. Silberner is an elite American journalist who reported public health stories, most notably for NPR. The title of her talk was “Global health and the media: what’s news and what’s not, and why.” The audience were statisticians in public health [...]
Posted in education, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged computer, journalism, social media
By bluerasberry on October 11, 2011
I went to this conference called “Internet Research 12” where the focus was on people using the internet to pull data. One of the keynote speakers was Mike Minello with a marketing agency called Campfire. Wow! Advertising people are fun! I had never heard this guy’s name but I was familiar with a lot of [...]
Posted in computer, encounter, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged advertising, conference, hero
By bluerasberry on October 10, 2011
Seattle InfoCamp was on October 8 and 9 and I went both days. I learned a lot and consumed new ideas. I love the format of this “unconference” – how it works is that they only schedule keynote speakers and everyone attends their talks, and then on the day of the event anyone who wants [...]
Posted in computer, presentation, Seattle | Tagged InfoCamp
By bluerasberry on June 29, 2011
Recently I met a lot of leaders in public and global health. The World Affairs Council is a Seattle non-profit which organizes for leaders from other countries to come to Seattle and give presentations. Global Health Nexus promotes talks about health issues in Seattle. WAC definitely does a lot more events. On June 6 WAC [...]
Posted in health, non-profit, presentation, Seattle | Tagged conference, politician, royal
By bluerasberry on June 5, 2011
Matt Mullenweg is the founding developer of WordPress and he still seems to be a frontman for whatever WordPress does. I was at an event he arranged on June 3. Matt looked like a typical America who, as Nandan would say, gave very little attention to his personal appearance other than hygiene. About 40 people [...]
Posted in computer, presentation, research, Seattle, work | Tagged hero
By bluerasberry on May 19, 2011
On Wednesday May 11 we hosted a conference about HIV vaccination in Varanasi. The below is a video from the event, but I have it set to start at a theater and music portion of the event as most of the presentation is in Hindi. I got a notice about an HIV vaccine conference funding [...]
Posted in HIV, presentation, research, work | Tagged vaccine
By bluerasberry on April 9, 2011
Josh had written me in 2008 asking about Nandan, and Nandan had told me about his visit then saying that he was a fun guy. Josh is a musician. He plays percussion and seems to make music everywhere he goes. He brought this dancer named Penelope with him and together one would start making some [...]
Posted in art, education, presentation | Tagged dance, music
By bluerasberry on February 16, 2011
Nandan and I went to a stage show in Agra. It was Kalakriti. The show gives a biography of Shah Jahan and the building of the Taj Mahal. It is a melodramatic performance of the historical facts with no character development. The scenes change with simple props and there are lip synced songs with dance [...]
Posted in India, presentation | Tagged theatre
By bluerasberry on October 22, 2010
Four times in one week I have heard the same story in different contexts. I am struck by the profundity of this problem, it being that there exists evidence that funding social wellness programs for children is both the simplest and most effective way to improve individual and societal health, and yet in America and [...]
Posted in health, legal, presentation, religion, Seattle | Tagged politician, weapon