Category Archives: medicine

topics medical in nature

unexpected connections

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Marie Kennedy

last week i co-taught an online course on wikis.  i looked through a lot of the ones that were developed in the class to learn what my colleagues around the u.s. were thinking about or working on.  a few wikis … Continue reading →

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80 million tiny images

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Marie Kennedy

i’ve saved this link in my blog feed reader for a while now, unsure how to make practical use of 80 million tiny images, described as “a visualization of all the nouns in the English language arranged by semantic meaning.”  … Continue reading →

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anatomy image collections

Posted on December 8, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

at my library we are building our first digital collection of orthopedic surgical anatomy images. i’ve been looking at a lot of web-based anatomy image collections to look at their metadata and user interfaces, and thought i’d compile some of … Continue reading →

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now that is an organized monkey!

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

Cloned monkey stem cells produced Researchers have for the first time created cloned primate embryos and used them to make embryonic stem-cell lines. link to the Nature article on the topic

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visual medical dictionary

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do check this out! type in a disease in the search box and hit ‘enter’ on your keyboard. select the disease by clicking on it. in the middle frame you’ll get a hierarchical view of your search term in tree … Continue reading →

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images roundup

Posted on October 15, 2007 by Marie Kennedy

so many high quality images out there on the ‘net lately. here are links to a few image collections i’ve recently enjoyed: nsf’s and the journal science’s science & engineering visualization challenge 2007 winners covering photography (“a web-based archive and … Continue reading →

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