This is a request for help finding people who have had bad experiences with online health resources. Let me first say that the internet is often a positive force in people’s lives. My own organization’s research can paint a rather rosy picture: teens are mostly kind to each other online, technology users have more friends […]
The Walking Gallery
If you haven’t seen The Walking Gallery firsthand, consider attending the next powwow, in Kansas City, MO, September 21-23, 2012, at the Partnership for Patients meeting. I can’t wait to Do yourself a favor and read Regina Holliday’s explanation of her latest painting, “Bone Black,” about my friend Catherine Fairchild (right). Until then Also, read […]
Quiet time
Just the way you are
Who is an elite athlete? All of them.There are a dozen photos like this, captured in a book by Howard Schatz and Beverly Ornstein, which caught my eye thanks to this tweet: We are the shape we are because of how we use our bodies: Diversity in elite athlete body shape bit.ly/OmXy2B — Andrew & […]
“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes…”
“…and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?” – Winston Churchill. I bike past this statue every day on the way to and from work and stopped the other day to read the plaque. One foot is on U.S. soil, the other on […]
“I was born too soon” – my grandmother, upon seeing the Web for the first time
The 19th International AIDS Conference, held this week in Washington, DC, included a session entitled, “The State of New Media and HIV,” hosted by AIDS.gov. My role on the panel was a familiar one – to present the Pew Internet Project’s latest research about mobile, social technologies and their impact on health and health care. […]
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