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H1N1 Prevention: Effective Measures or Psychological Comfort?
Submitted by jrieders on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 4:24pmThe 1918 Influenza killed more Americans in one year than those that died in battle in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. If a virus as deadly as the 1918 flu became a pandemic today, it would kill more people than heart disease, stroke, cancers, chronic pulmonary disease, AIDS, and Alzheimer's combined. Death estimates worldwide range from 20 million to over a 100 million, as many remote areas that were decimated by the flu did not keep mortality records. This strain of flu was 25 times more virulent than seasonal flu and it's death curve looks like a W, with mortality rates peaking for children under the age of 5, elderly 70-74, and the group that normally has the lowest death rate for the seasonal flu, people ages 20-40.
H1N1 Prevention: Effective Measures or Psychological Comfort?
Submitted by jrieders on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 4:23pmThe 1918 Influenza killed more Americans in one year than those that died in battle in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. If a virus as deadly as the 1918 flu became a pandemic today, it would kill more people than heart disease, stroke, cancers, chronic pulmonary disease, AIDS, and Alzheimer's combined. Death estimates worldwide range from 20 million to over a 100 million, as many remote areas that were decimated by the flu did not keep mortality records. This strain of flu was 25 times more virulent than seasonal flu and it's death curve looks like a W, with mortality rates peaking for children under the age of 5, elderly 70-74, and the group that normally has the lowest death rate for the seasonal flu, people ages 20-40.
Evolving Systems: November 2009 Core Group Meeting
The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics
November, 2009 Core Group Meeting
Background, Summary,
and Continuing Discussion
Dealing with uncertainty: from the I Ching to heaven?
A Persistant Illusionary Feedback System: Does the Mind Exist?
Submitted by Anna Dela Cruz on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 3:50amAnna Dela Cruz
Biology in Society
November 24, 2009
Notes Towards Days 24-25: Some Lynda Barry-ish Workshopping
Day 24: brainstorming
I. Write for 10 minutes--only questions--in response to these prompts:
In the course of this past semester, which topic did you find most compelling?
Which single class did you find most compelling?
What single statement did you find most compelling?
Go back and circle one of these questions.
Write for 10 more minutes--only questions--in response to the one you circled.
Turn to a partner and either read her something you’ve
written or describe your writing process to her.
Intersections Between Gender and Disease: HIV/AIDS and Women
Submitted by dshetterly on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 6:58pm
Replacing blame with generosity in classrooms, inquiry, and culture
Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 4:16pmInteresting conversation this morning growing out of, among other things, "The Design of Learning Environments," Chapter 6 of How People Learn, together with some college student comparisons of experiences in their own courses with observations of elementary school classes at a local K-6 Quaker school. The upshot was, for me at least, a clearer understanding of what one needs to do to create not only more effective learning environments in classrooms but more humane exchange environments generally.
Notes Towards Day 23: Thinking about Sex Work
the music suppliers are letting us down....!
so, from Anne: Jacob & Lily's "Ruby":
"Ruby don't go downtown, Ruby come in and stay.
It's a cold rain outside and your bed's a ways away....
Now no one's daughter your trying harder just to stay alive...
I 'm gonna stand right on this corner...
Commodification and the Status Game
Submitted by Beta on Thu, 11/19/2009 - 1:25pm
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