education
all kinds of studies or learning ventures
By bluerasberry on 2012-02-16
On Monday 13 February Sharon Terry of Genetic Alliance was in Seattle and gave a talk at the Public Health Cafe. The Public Health Cafe is a community science presenation organized by the UW Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Science. I love it! I had seen Sharon’s YouTube video explaining why she got into the […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, education, health, non-profit, Open access, presentation, research, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged Genetic Alliance, Jon Izant, Public Health Cafe, Sage Bionetworks, Sharon Terry
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-19
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 2011-06-06
I attended the June 4 open house to celebrate the opening of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation building opening across the street from the Seattle Center. This is a 500 million dollar building whose employees have the responsibility to manage the spending of 3 billion dollars a year to improve the human condition. The […]
Posted in education, encounter, non-profit, Seattle | Tagged conference
By bluerasberry on 2011-04-09
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 2011-02-20
I went to meet with Arun Pathak. He lives at the monastery for the 23rd Jain Tirthankar’s birthplace, which was a detail Nandan had not mentioned until we arrived. I first read about Pathak in 2005 before I ever even made plans to visit India. This was in relation to his Deepa Mehta Water protest. […]
Posted in education, India | Tagged Arun Pathak, politics
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-20
I wanted to visit the site of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster. I also wanted to visit whatever major NGO was working with the survivors. This is why we went to Bhopal, the capitol of Madhya Pradesh. I expected that affected people were still living in the area. I also expected that these people had […]
Posted in education, health, India, legal, non-profit | Tagged death, pollution, school, toxic waste
By bluerasberry on 2011-02-14
Nandan and I went to Delhi to attend Chandan’s wife’s wedding. She seems to think of many things relating to Varanasi as having the negative attributes associated with a rural place. The wedding had guns fired into the air as part of the celebration process. I talked with a lot of people there but did […]
Posted in education, health, India, research, tour | Tagged automaton, clinical research, school, vaccine, wedding
By bluerasberry on 2010-10-07
For a long time I have been wondering about the problem of providing software solutions to fix the problems I am having with data collection. I am not sure what the final solution will be, but here are some options which people have presented to me and which I have not fully explored. The problem […]
Posted in computer, education, research
By bluerasberry on 2010-03-09
Hanford sent some people to Seattle Monday March 8 to give a short presentation about some future plans and especially to collect public comment. I went to this hearing. I am not sure that their web description of the event will exist forever, so here is the title and a list of the topics about […]
Posted in education, presentation, rights | Tagged environment, toxic waste
By bluerasberry on 2010-02-26
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