Entries Tagged as 'Astronomy'
As a response to another post over at HIStalk that basically wondered if Healthcare 2.0 and social networking software will help healthcare in the future. I sent in a comment and was published:
From John: “Re: Web 2.0. Web 2.0 and social networking are already playing a role in healthcare. People are helping each other out, [...]
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Tags: Astronomy · Medical Informatics
December 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments
As you wander a lonely virtual landscape, is anyone watching you? Probably, if the land collect stats. Should you be told?
As some may know, I maintain the Path of Support on Healthinfo Island in Second Life.* It features almost 100 posters of different support groups. The path includes groups dealing with mental health conditions, chronic [...]
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Tags: Astronomy · Medical Informatics
I’ve finished up my course work at Oregon Health and Sciences University and now am an official Biomedical Informaticist!
It is quite a program. While I had researched BMI by myself for about a year prior to applying to OHSU, the quantity and quality of content in the courses was almost overwhelming. I would highly recommend [...]
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Tags: Astronomy · Medical Informatics
I’m starting to put up podcasts to the different Messier objects. It’ll take a while, and if it gets too popular, I’ll need to host em somewhere else.
They are going up at this page.
Actually all the files are on the sever, but the links are not set up…so you could change the URL to grab [...]
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Tags: Astronomy
November 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments
Like looking at deep sky objects in your scope, but can’t remember a thing about them? Tired of holding a flashlight in your teeth and fumbling with astronomical books?
I want my scope time to be better-
So I took some of the information that SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) publishes, ran [...]
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Tags: Astronomy
September 30th, 2007 · No Comments
I tried out my scope and the audio recording of the SED’s Messier info that I blogged about last week. I really enjoyed it. I especially liked listening the historical descriptions and thinking about folks looking at these things hundreds of years ago.
Many of the audio files are much longer than I thought, but [...]
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Tags: Astronomy
September 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments
Quick re-cap: I am an amateur astronomer (very amateur.) Although I read up on the various things to look at, it all pretty much goes out of my head when I’m up late at night with my scope. So I commenced creating podcasts to listen to. Each files is to be [...]
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Tags: Astronomy