i’m working on my poster for the upcoming medical library association conference and came across a free clip art site. it’s called “open clip art,” and every image there is in the public domain. i found a very nice magnifying glass image, which i may use for the analysis portion of the poster. you may like it for your own powerpoint or poster presentations. leave a comment if you have a favorite free clip art site you’d like to point me to.
Today is World Health Day. An issues paper posted at the WHO site notes the following as key issues you may wish to consider regarding the theme of this year’s World Health Day, international health security:
The aim of the paper is to “spark global debate” (p.20), but it also makes me consider where I fit into the discussion. I like to think that, in some very small way, by doing the kind of work that I do, I contribute to the issue surrounding strengthening health systems. That is all. May you each have a healthy day.
i know i don’t usually eat enough fruits and veggies, who does? okay, janis does, but she is a special case. but today i have done a good job: a banana and orange at breakfast, half an avocado and small tomato at lunch, a tangerine for my afternoon snacky. and it’s not even dinner yet! who knows how far this can go? i think i’ll text message my mom and tell her.
Wired has a new article about a doctor practicing what is probably best be described as “complementary therapies.”
“The Divine came to me and said, Zhi Gang, transmit my soul software — a spiritual program — to humanity for healing,” Sha explains. “The Divine also told me to transmit soul acupuncture. He told me, I will download a soul acupuncture needle. Silent DownLOAAAD!! Now I offer free remote downloads to more than 1,000 physical human beings in one session.”
we have a casual reading section in our library in which we house some popular periodicals, including the placebo journal, a medical satire publication. i was happy to learn that they now also publish a blog (http://placebojournal.blogspot.com/index.html). doesn’t that make you happy too?
thanks, Able Pharmboy, for posting about this at ScienceBlogs.Â
i just downloaded the preview version of “papers” on my mac at home. wow, what a cool program. it opens like itunes, organizes like itunes, but instead of organizing music it organizes articles you retrieve from pubmed. you can read the pdfs of the articles right inside “papers,” without having to pop open adobe acrobat. you can even jot little notes to yourself within the program that are then attached to the article file. the program is still buggy, as the developers note on the website (http://mekentosj.com/papers/), but it’s going to be a fantastic program when it’s done. the description of the program says that if you put in predefined search terms it will automatically download new articles that fit those terms, as they are published; what a nice way to stay on top of what is being published, all within one program.
thanks to open access news for pointing me to this program!Â
