Saturday, January 08, 2011

Achieving Mount Everest

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Check out this website , referred by a friend. Every Monday, this young artist posts a new song he has written on this site, accompanied by...
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Friday, January 07, 2011

Transitions

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I attach an email that I have sent to the BIDMC staff this morning. It is self-explanatory. My loyal blog readers can expect continued post...
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Thursday, January 06, 2011

Resolve

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As our biking group celebrated New Year's eve somewhere in the Atlas Mountains , the usual question arose as to each person's resolu...
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Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Bike4Life in the Atlas Mountains

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(I am taking a break from hospital-related matters to catch up on personal activities during the Christmas-New Year break. I hope you enjoy...
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Romans in Rabat

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I had a little time before the Bike4Life fundraiser for Focus Humanitarian Assistance to visit Rabat, the capital of Morocco. There I foun...

Berber children

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Continuing my travelogue from the Bike4Life fundraising trip for Focus Humanitarian Assistance, an advantage of traveling by bicycle was to...

Berber drums

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Another aspect of our Bike4Life trip to raise funds for Focus Humanitarian Assistance was to be entertained by Berber men from a local vill...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Winter break

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It is time for my annual winter blogging break. If you leave comments, they will be moderated when I return. Happy holidays to all! See you...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Books to consider -- IV

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I end my series of possible gifts more topical than those mentioned below with two books about which I have written before. I hesitate to ...
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Books to consider -- III

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We continue our series of possible gifts more topical than those mentioned below . In The Communicators, Leadership in the Age of Crisis , R...
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Books to consider -- II

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Continuing our attempt to offer gifts more topical than those mentioned below, I offer two more recent books for your consideration. I...
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Monday, December 20, 2010

Books to consider -- I

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In a spirit of Christmas gifts more topical than those mentioned below , I offer today and on subsequent days some recent books related to h...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Lives and times

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This is a spectacular visual display by Hans Rosling of the correlation between income and life expectancy, over the decades, for dozens of ...
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I'm gonna scream!

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The New York Times offers this summary of words that were introduced or popular during 2010. I'd like to give my candidate: Gonna . ...
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Good move in Congress

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I am very pleased that Congress has now eliminated the ban on gay people serving openly in the US armed forces. I know many gay people who...
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Manly gifts for Christmas

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I was listening to Tom and Ray on Car Talk today and heard their suggestions for Christmas gifts for guys. You can listen to that here , s...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Hospital visiting day for Red Sox Scholars

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The current class of Red Sox Scholars came to BIDMC today for a visit to our neonatal intensive care unit and our surgical skills and simul...
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Two Degrees of freedom

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As you know, I don't often write about commercial ventures here, but from time to time, one that has a broader public service mission em...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

The Jubilee Project

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If this video doesn't warm your heart, you have serious emotional problems. It was produced by The Jubilee Project, a non-profit that t...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

We're all entitled to move

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Please check out this story from the PBS NewsHour about how dance can be used to improve the lives of people with Parkinson's disease. ...
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