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Comic Book Hero Saves Self
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Darkness Calls
A bullied young man in the Arctic resists suicidal thoughts through comic book battles with a demon, in an epic animated story. Subtitled in English, narrated in the Gitxsan language. (Source: Channel N)
Source: Channel N - November 18, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: sandra at psychcentral.com (Sandra Kiume) Tags: Art General PSA brain CanCon psychology suicide video youth Source Type: blogs
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It's Duncan's most recent production. The music is by his current favourite singer, Michael Jackson. He likes to listen to his CD in the car and prefers track 1 from Off the Wall. Sadly my friends in Germany will be denied the joy of watching this random video as Sony Music have blocked it there, boo hoo. (Source: The Voyage)
Source: The Voyage - November 16, 2009 Category: Autism Tags: art what they do funny autism Source Type: blogs
Home-ed artEmail this article to a colleague.
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ART with a message is on show at an exhibition in Sheffield city centre - created by children educated at home instead of school.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education)
Source: Aspie Home-Education - November 12, 2009 Category: Autism Tags: art home education news Source Type: blogs
Art Every Day MonthEmail this article to a colleague.
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A good photograph is knowing where to stand. ~Ansel Adams {As in life and attitude … ~SG}
Although I am enjoying the inspiration and accountability of the Art Every Day Month {gentle} challenge, I have yet to get into a rhythm of steps. Such as: posting and linking with the group. However, it is encouraging that said reality is a complete non-issue for me.
Today’s {aRt} was collage journaling and photography of said journaling. In fact, that is the practice I have granted {Art Every Day} status. The host for this practice is a new bound journal with lined pages — in which I also incorporate daily to-do notat...
Source: The Dessert Years . . . (the sequel) - November 9, 2009 Category: Cancer Authors: stargardener Tags: art collage-journaling collage-planner getting there quote Source Type: blogs
Weekly News Round-Up, 11/8Email this article to a colleague.
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Christine has a post at Our Bodies Our Blog about the passage of the health reform legislation last night. She notes
As I watched Democrats congratulate themselves, it was difficult to feel celebratory. Passage of the Stupak amendment — which bars a government-run insurance plan from offering abortion *and* prohibits women who receive government insurance subsidies from purchasing private plans that include abortion coverage — sucked a lot of the energy out of the room.
She has a number of posts on health care reform and especially the Stupak amendment from yesterday, with links to a number of additional resources and ...
Source: Women's Health News - November 8, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Rachel Tags: Abortion Access, Rights, & Choice Birth Drugs Ethics Global Issues Government Infectious Diseases Midwifery News Round-Ups ableism accessibility bioethics body art FDA flu health care reform healthcare labor nurse-mid Source Type: blogs
He-art projectEmail this article to a colleague.
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ART submitted by home-educated children from Sheffield and across the country, in a bid to share the reasons why they love learning outside school, has been put in the shop window for the public to see. After a month-long exhibition the He-art project will go on a national tour.Read more... (Source: Aspie Home-Education)
Source: Aspie Home-Education - November 4, 2009 Category: Autism Tags: art home education news Source Type: blogs
Pill camera live showEmail this article to a colleague.
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Here are some images from last month’s show with Phillip Warnell swallowing a pill camera in Medical Museion’s anatomical theatre:
See more images here (the event was originally announced here).
(thanks to Bente who published the images on our Danish blog the other day) (Source: Biomedicine on Display)
Source: Biomedicine on Display - October 28, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: art and biomed displays/exhibits public outreach recent biomed visualization Source Type: blogs
Office StigmaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Office Life
Not to be confused with The Office, this is an amusing series too. Mental health issues and stigma in the workplace are the focus. The Interview, The Breakdown, and The Return. (Source: Channel N)
Source: Channel N - October 26, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: sandra at psychcentral.com (Sandra Kiume) Tags: Art Funny General TV brain LOL pschology stigma uk video workplace Source Type: blogs
The menstrual cycle on displayEmail this article to a colleague.
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Here’s an innovative way of putting biomedicine on display:
As Vanessa (Street Anatomy) says,
the menstrual cycle has never looked so exciting! [...] Perfect for explaining the menstrual cycle for the first time to a young girl … or to a 26-year-old. I had no idea I went through a luteal lunacy!
Created by I Heart Guts!, “the brainchild of an anatomically obsessed illustrator who loves internal organs and all they do”.
Maybe the next generation of the classic biochemical pathways wall charts could learn a lesson or two — or better, I Heart Guts could make a version of:
(click here for a ...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - October 23, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: art and biomed marketing and advertising public outreach visualization Source Type: blogs
An Open Letter to Future BioethicistsEmail this article to a colleague.
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I couldn't attend the ASBH meeting in DC this year, but apparently, Ezekiel "Zeke" Emanuel gave quite a controversial speech. While I don't have the text of the original speech, my guess is that it will be posted on the ASBH website at some point. But what I do have is Art Caplan's response, from which you can glean certain aspects of Zeke's speech -- I'll be interested to see/hear what kind of reaction this gets:
Facts alone won’t suffice for the field of bioethics
When you get old enough as a practitioner in any field young people seek your advice about what they should do if they want to do what you do. Given that...
Source: Women's Bioethics Blog - October 22, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: asbh Ezekiel Emanuel Art Caplan code of ethics future of bioethics Source Type: blogs
Art and PrideEmail this article to a colleague.
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Mad But Glad
Very good UK documentary following Nick van Bloss, a pianist who has Tourette’s syndrome and thrives by using the instrument to channel creative energy and manage his condition. Delves into classic questions about the link between creativity and madness (and dopamine), with animated brain scans and comparisons to some creative correlates of autism, mania, and Parkinson’s. Part 1, and part 2. (Source: Channel N)
Source: Channel N - October 21, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: sandra at psychcentral.com (Sandra Kiume) Tags: Art Documentary General TV autism bipolar brain dopamine hypergraphia music neuroimaging neurology OCD parkinson's pride rockstars schizophrenia tourette video Source Type: blogs
Pharmalot… Pharmalittle… Good MorningEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hello, everyone. ‘Tis the middle of the week and we hope things are going well for you so far. As always, we are quite busy. So let’s get started with a cup of stimulation, and maybe a water bottle, and dig in. Have a nice day and please continue to keep us posted on interesting developments…
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Sanofi Buys Diabetes Drug (Bloomberg News)
Eli Lilly Profit Beats Expectations (Associat...
Source: Pharmalot - October 21, 2009 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Art Levinson Counterfeit Drugs Eli Lilly King Pharmaceuticals NGM Pharmaceuticals Sanofi Aventis Sweden Wellstat Therapeutics Westchester Source Type: blogs
Friday Foolery #7 Play Doh World, the Safe and UnexpectedEmail this article to a colleague.
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Seen at the Loom of Carl Zimmer: using Play Doh, Sophia Tintori and Cassandra Extavour talk about multicellularity and the specialization of reproductive cells.
The video, made by the evolutionary biologist Casey Dunn, is from Creature Cast, a collaborative blog produced by members of the Dunn Lab at Brown University. The Dunn Lab investigates how evolution [...] (Source: Laika's MedLibLog)
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - October 16, 2009 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: Art Friday Foolery video Advertorials Creature Cast Dunn Lab evolution Friday post multi-cellularity Play-Doh Source Type: blogs
Kees van Dongen on Art TubeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Opening exhibition Kees van Dongen in 1967
Moving images of artists from the generation of painter Kees van Dongen (1877-1968) are rare. This fragment from the Polygoon Journaal [Newsreel] contains images of Van Dongen during the opening of an exhibition in 1937. He speaks, as he describes it himself, with a whisky voice, thanks to an excessive use of Dutch coffee.
This Polygoon Journaal is about the opening of a retrospe...
Source: Dr Shock MD PhD - October 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: vdbroekw Tags: Media art tube Kees van Dongen Museum Boymans van Beuningen Source Type: blogs
"Art Is Not for Grading"Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Autism's Edges - October 10, 2009 Category: Autism Tags: pedagogy art education middle school autism Source Type: blogs
Putting Down RootsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Source: Autism's Edges - October 10, 2009 Category: Autism Tags: art therapy school placements psychotropic medications autism Source Type: blogs
Prosthetic Art – Flaunt It, Don’t Hide ItEmail this article to a colleague.
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Whether it’s an artificial leg, a cast for a broken arm, or even a corset for an injured back, you can use these items to express yourself and have some fun if you want. You can make your prosthetic yours and really, the only limit is your imagination.
You can choose to have a functioning but unique leg that extends for rock climbing or you can have a glass leg that you can fill up with something decorative. Your artificial arm could be tattooed from shoulder to wrist or you could decide to cover your stump with a wing. Even casts for broken arms can be made into works of art – as long as you’re willing t...
Source: Healthbolt - October 7, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Marijke Durning, RN Tags: disability artificial arms artificial legs prosthetic art Source Type: blogs
A protein sculpture in the makingEmail this article to a colleague.
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In continuation of last week’s post about protein art — here is a (somewhat dated) YouTube-movie about the making of such a beast:
It’s an interview with German physicist-turned-artist Julian Voss-Andreae working on his antibody sculpture ‘Angel of the West’, now placed in front of the Scripps Research Institute in Florida.
Voss-Andreae comments in Leonardo, vol. 38: pp. 41-45, 2005:
The main idea underlying these sculptures is the analogy between the technique of mitered cuts and protein folding. The sculptures offer a sensual experience of a world that is usually accessible only through the...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - October 5, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: aesthetics of biomedicine art and biomed Source Type: blogs
Cell image and video library gets NIH stimulus grantEmail this article to a colleague.
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As some of you may have noticed, the online Image & Video Library of The American Society for Cell Biology has been closed since February, and nobody knew whether it would be opened again.
Last Thursday the ACSB announced, however, that the site will be re-opened and developed further by means of a $2,5 million ’stimulus grant’ from the NIH (one of the consequences of the new Obama administration).
According to ACSB’s press release, the present image and video collection will be turned into “a comprehensive, international digital library” and furthermore, by “developing a systematic...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - October 4, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: aesthetics of biomedicine art and biomed collections displays/exhibits news public outreach recent biomed visualization web resources Source Type: blogs
The Alzheimer's Art Quilt InitiativeEmail this article to a colleague.
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I wanted to bring The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative into your awareness.
The Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative is in the process of creating a new traveling exhibit called "Alzheimer's Illustrated: From Heartbreak to Hope." It will be exhibited at venues throughout the United States from January 2011 through December 2015.
This new exhibit will replace the current exhibit "Alzheimer's: Forgetting Piece by Piece" after it retires at the end of 2010.
"Alzheimer's Illustrated" will feature 182 quilts, like the one pictured at the left, each measuring 6 inches wide by approximately 7 feet tall. The long an...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 2, 2009 Category: Dementia Tags: art Quilt alzheimers information exhibit Initiative Source Type: blogs
Waiting for the 2009 Celldance winnersEmail this article to a colleague.
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The art of animation of cellular and molecular processes has developed immensely in the last decade. One of the interesting trends is the increasingly sophisticated practice of mixing scientific footage with animation procedures.
A nice example is ‘The Golgi apparatus’ movie (Sougrat R. The Golgi apparatus. ASCB Image & Video Library. 2008;VID-142) that was awarded 1st Place Public Outreach Video at Celldance 2008, the annual cell film and image contest for members of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB), organised “to open the eyes of the world to the best in visually stunning videos an...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - October 2, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: art and biomed movies visualization Source Type: blogs
Where is this Painting of a Spix's Macaw Located?Email this article to a colleague.
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The Spix Macaw, Cyanopsittacus spixi, by Karl Plath and published in the April 1931 edition of Aviculture, the journal of The Avicultural Society in London, England [larger view].
A reader is wondering where this painting of a Spix's Macaw is located; does anyone know?
Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted))
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - October 1, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: Art Source Type: blogs
Protein sculpturesEmail this article to a colleague.
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In the last ten years or so, in the wake of the renewed interest in protein research and proteomics after genomics, we have seen more and more artists making protein sculptures. See, for example, Graphic Thought Facility’s neon protein artwork, or Colin Rennies glass sculpture of ATP synthase, or Julian Voss-Andreae’s wood and steel sculpures of proteins, just to mention a few.
Here’s another recent example. Herwig Turk sent me these images from his current exhibition gaps (with Paulo Pereira and Johannes Hoffmann) at the Museu da Ciência, Coimbra, Portugal (the museum of the Universidade de Coim...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 30, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: aesthetics of biomedicine art and biomed displays/exhibits Source Type: blogs
Art TherapyEmail this article to a colleague.
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I have already posted about creativity being associated with mental illnesses.If you are one of those people struggling with a psychiatric disorder, art therapy might be something you will want to try. You already have a statistical advantage of being able to creatively express yourself, and you have to do something in order to start feeling better, and mood diaries (as helpful as they are and you shouldn’t stop doing any other homework you are currently doing) and cleaning the cat box can get dull pretty quick. As well, as your condition improves, you will need to add more activities to your schedule in order to keep yo...
Source: Psych Scamp - September 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: self-help Mood diary art creativity writing Source Type: blogs
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I have already posted about creativity being associated with mental illnesses.If you are one of those people struggling with a psychiatric disorder, art therapy might be something you will want to try. You already have a statistical advantage of being able to creatively express yourself, and you have to do something in order to start feeling better, and mood diaries (as helpful as they are and you shouldn’t stop doing any other homework you are currently doing) and cleaning the cat box can get dull pretty quick. As well, as your condition improves, you will need to add more activities to your schedule in order to keep yo...
Source: Psych Scamp - September 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: self-help Mood diary art creativity writing Source Type: blogs
Seventeenth Century Women and Breast CancerEmail this article to a colleague.
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Several years ago I visited the Detroit Art Institute. It was a date with my husband when he was still my boyfriend, even before he was my fiancee. My husband made a great boyfriend. This visit to the museum made a real impact on me for a number of reasons, for one it was the first time I saw an original Van Gogh. I’ll never forget however the group of teenage girls touring the institute with an older woman whom I assumed was their teacher. They were in the room of renaissance paintings which had a beautiful almost life size portrait of a nude woman reclining on a chaise. The portrait was stunning and so was the woma...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - September 25, 2009 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Breast cancer community Breast cancer diagnosis Breast cancer lifestyle Uncategorized breast cancer awareness 17th century body image boyfriend breast cancer blog chaise lounge Detroit Art Institute Kathy-Ellen Kups museum nude w Source Type: blogs
New Crooked Beauty Trailer OnlineEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new trailer is online for the documentary featuring the words of TIP co-founder Ashley McNamara and the music of Icarista bmad!read more (Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness)
Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - September 25, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: silverelf Tags: art community movies news video Source Type: blogs
Sk-interfaces in extended continuation — now in LuxembourgEmail this article to a colleague.
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Later today, the art exhibition SK-INTERFACES — originally displayed in Liverpool in 2008 (see earlier post here) — opens in “extended continuation” form (what others would call perpetual beta :-) at Casino Luxembourg in Luxembourg.
The opening event features Kira O’Reilly (inthewrongplaceness), Yann Marussich (Bleu Remix), Paul Vanouse (Relative Velocity Inscription Device) and Jun Takita (Light, only light!). The show, which is curated by Jens Hauser, is running until January 10, 2010.
Contributing artists include: Art Orienté objet, Maurice Benayoun, Zane Berzina, Critical Art Ensemble, Wim De...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 25, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: art and biomed biotech displays/exhibits Source Type: blogs
100 years with pHEmail this article to a colleague.
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2009 is the 100th anniversary of the notion of pH, proposed by the Danish chemist S.P.L. Sørensen.
Shortly after having been appointed head of the Chemical Department at the Carlsberg Laboratory in 1901, Sørensen started an extensive research programme on amino acids and proteins. One of his projects was the kinetics of enzyme dissociation; among other things, he found out that the degree of dissociation is dependent not only on temperature but also on hydrogen ion activity.
Summing up his enzyme investigations in 1909, Sørensen proposed the first logarithmic scale for hydrogen ion activity (pH) which is still in use: 0...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 15, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: art and biomed visualization Source Type: blogs
You've Just GOT to Read ThisEmail this article to a colleague.
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My e-pal, Digital Cuttlefish, who is "teh Bard ov da Intert00bz" wrote this amazing poem publicly promoting my candidacy as official Antarctica blogger. Now, I have to tell you that there are several things about this blog entry that I find amazing. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted))
Source: Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) - September 12, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Tags: Art Source Type: blogs
Explaining Split+Splice on Danish TVEmail this article to a colleague.
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The theme of this year’s Golden Days festival in Copenhagen is ’Body Performance: corsets, champions and cialis’. Medical Museion takes active part with the Split+Splice-exhibition and Phillip Warnell’s ENDO-ECTO-performance on Sunday.
As a prelude to the festival, the Copenhagen local TV-channel Lorry aired a short feature about three current body-exhibitions in Copenhagen, including Split+Splice. See here how the guest curator of the exhibition, Martha Fleming, explain some of the basic ideas behind the show (3 mins 15 secs into the programme). (Source: Biomedicine on Display)
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 11, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: art and biomed displays/exhibits Source Type: blogs
Man-eating Bunnies and Other Projects That Almost Killed MeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Bunny Doll Study - Step Four
Originally uploaded by Darkstream. As I type this it is 3:16am and I am sitting outside my front yard along the wall that divides our yard from our neighbor’s. The weather is a balmy 77°F and a warm breeze teases a wind chime somewhere out in the night. The occasional car drives by, but otherwise I sit here alone with no soundtrack other than the sound of crickets playing their syncopated symphony.
I still have yet to begin a very difficult article, but I know I will manage it very soon.
First, though, I wanted to declare victory over my ADHD. The b...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - September 10, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Tags: Productivity Insomnia Writing Goals Procrastination Coping Strategies Art ADHD Source Type: blogs
Stories between art and science — and the history of the ribbon diagram of protein structureEmail this article to a colleague.
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I was supposed to give a presentation at the one-day meeting ‘Stories Between Art and Science’ in Oporto, Portugal, next week but had to decline because I’m on paternal leave with my youngest daughter in September and October.
Anyway, the programme has just been distributed and it looks tantalising. Speakers include:
* Michael Punt: Provisional Connection
* Monique Sicard: Between Painters and Scientists/The Paradox of the Concomitant Emergence of Pictorial Abstraction and Photographic Realism
* Shirley Wheeler: Tracing the Invisible
* Maria Esteva: Endless Possibilities: Digital Collections as Crossroads...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 10, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: art and biomed conferences public outreach science communication studies visual studies Source Type: blogs
Phillip Warnell will swallow a pill camera in Copenhagen on SundayEmail this article to a colleague.
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Bente and her crew are right now making the last preparations for the next public event here at Medical Museion, viz. Phillip Warnell’s performance ENDO-ECTO on Sunday, 13 September, at 2pm.
In front of the audience in the old anatomical theatre, Phillip will swallow a pill camera — and gastroenterologist Simon Anderson, London, will be our guide on the camera’s journey through Phillip’s gastrointestinal tract.
The event is an extension of the theme in one of the rooms in our current temporary exhibition ‘Split+Splice: Fragments From the Age of Biomedicine’, which opened in Jun...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 9, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: art and biomed displays/exhibits public outreach recent biomed visualization Source Type: blogs
Man-eating Bunnies and Other Projects That Almost Killed MeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Bunny Doll Study - Step Four Originally uploaded by Darkstream. As I type this it is 3:16am and I am sitting outside my front yard along the wall that divides our yard from our neighbor’s. The weather is a balmy 77°F and a warm breeze teases a wind chime somewhere out in the night. The occasional car drives by, but otherwise I sit here alone with no soundtrack other than the sound of crickets playing their syncopated symphony.I still have yet to begin a very difficult article, but I know I will manage it very soon. First, though, I wanted to declare victory over my ADHD. The blasted bunny doll drawing is done. I began ...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - September 7, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Tags: Productivity Insomnia Writing Goals Procrastination Coping Strategies Art ADHD Source Type: blogs
Artwork: Tales Of A BorderlineEmail this article to a colleague.
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Tales of a Borderline is an exhibition of artwork by artists with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). This disorder affects a persons emotions, causing emotional instability. For further information on BPD, see the ‘What is BPD?’ page.
A few examples of their artwork. The four artists now have an exhibition in the beautiful Renaissance Castle of Hartheim situated close to Upper Austria’s capital city Linz. This castle has a long and troubled history. It was there that Hitler carried out large parts of his National Socialist Euthanasia project on people suffering from mental diseases.
A new artistic programm called...
Source: Dr Shock MD PhD - September 5, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dr Shock Tags: Media art Borderline Personality Disorder mental health Source Type: blogs
Message in a PosterEmail this article to a colleague.
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This week we’re featuring artwork by the Rugh Family, Jaime and Jeffrey, a pair of artists who live in New Jersey. The Rughs’ artwork is bright, bold and graphic — and it supports advocacy for and education about people on the spectrum. Leave a comment, and one reader will win a piece of silkscreened artwork by this talented couple. Today’s poster has a quote that the Rughs came across in “The Truth About Autism,” an article from the February issue of Wired Magazine.
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It’s impossible to predict with any certainty how anyone dia...
Source: Autism Vox - September 3, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Jill Cornfield Tags: Art Education artwork back-to-school tips Source Type: blogs
Changing our Minds...by Reading FictionEmail this article to a colleague.
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(Editor's Note: we are pleased to bring you this article thanks to our collaboration with Greater Good Magazine.)
Changing our Minds
By imagining many possible worlds, argues novelist and psychologist Keith Oatley, fiction helps us understand ourselves and others.
-By Keith Oatley
For more than two thousand years people have insisted that reading fiction is good for you. Aristotle claimed that poetry—he meant the epics of Homer and the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, which we would now call fiction—is a more serious business than history. History, he argued, tells us only what has happened, whereas f...
Source: SharpBrains - September 2, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greater Good Magazine Tags: Uncategorized Education Health & Wellness Author Speaks Series analytical reasoning skills art Chekhov emotional fiction fingere history Interpersonal Perception Test Jordan Peterson Keith Oatley Maja Djikic mind New Yo Source Type: blogs
Teaching Tips: A New ClassroomEmail this article to a colleague.
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The site I Teach Autism is an excellent resource for the coming school year. Almost 20 sites and blogs are mentioned, and awareness materials offered for sale. I Teach also offers tips on parent/student/educator cooperation, a few of which we hope to post here before, as the Staples commerical once put it, “the most wonderful time of the year” begins again. Especially useful: tools for teachers, including transition tips, picture communication examples, and peer initiation strategies.
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Our note about the young Michigan woman with autism who has carved out a living cutting rags gave us great hope for Ale...
Source: Autism Vox - September 2, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Jeff Stimpson Tags: Adolescence Adulthood Art Autism Organizations Education Money Teaching Strategies Work classrooms workworld Source Type: blogs
Books: not necessarily difficult.Email this article to a colleague.
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Norm at the Library has a hopeful note up today. It’s possible to like books with plots in them, and not have to be publicly ashamed at that fact.
Well, folks, it looks like the long literary nightmare is finally over.
via “…they have trained us… to associate a crisp, dynamic, exciting plot with supermarket fiction, and cheap thrills, and embarrassment.” « Stacked.
Maybe now I can admit that I never finished James Joyce’s Ulysses. I’ve felt overly sensitive about that fact ever since our tour guide in Dublin said he’d read it long ago.
According to the WSJ...
Source: white pebble - September 1, 2009 Category: Cancer Authors: Patti Tags: art, etc. books Byatt James Joyce Literature reading Ulysses Source Type: blogs
Can Art Improve Your Health?Email this article to a colleague.
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It’s not news to most of us that our environment can have an impact on our mood. A cloudy day. Working in a cubicle farm. Growing up in poverty.
But can it also impact our health?
There’s a growing body of research that suggests the beneficial effects of picking and hanging the “right” artwork in hospitals, to help healing and improve patients’ mood:
Nanda, who has a doctorate in architecture with a specialization in health-care systems and design, says scientific studies show that art can aid in the recovery of patients, shorten hospital stays and help manage pain. But she says it has to be ...
Source: World of Psychology - September 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: John M Grohol PsyD Tags: Brain and Behavior General Health-related Industrial and Workplace Psychology Research Abstract Paintings Abstract Pieces Array Art Display Baylor Medical Center Baylor Medical Center At Irving Beneficial Effects Cloudy Day Epi Source Type: blogs
Winning Walls: Fantastic Poster GiveawayEmail this article to a colleague.
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As fitting as it might be, I’m getting a little tired of that puzzle piece. After all, autism isn’t a one-size-fits-all condition.
Just in time to save us from advocacy-image-burnout, Jaime and Jeffrey Rugh, a N.J. couple who are artists and the parents of two children on the spectrum, have started designing and producing posters that are sharp and unusual.
Image courtesy of Jaime and Jeffrey Rugh
Reminiscent of the works of Alexander Girard and Corita Kent, the Rughs’ posters brim with color and message.
The Rughs are producing the posters to promote awareness, support and compassion for people with au...
Source: Autism Vox - August 31, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Jill Cornfield Tags: Art Education artwork controversy fall representation school Source Type: blogs
H1N1 - the testing confusionEmail this article to a colleague.
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I think there are mixed signals about testing coming out from the MOH especially when there were earlier media reports about the Health Minister encouraging doctors to use the “rapid test”. The Star reported
As the death toll from Influenza A (H1N1) rose to 38, the Government green-lighted the use of rapid test kits for private clinics and hospitals to conduct flu checks on the public.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said private healthcare providers can use these kits to help cope with the large number of patients wanting to be checked, and for faster detection and containment of the pandemic.
“Use...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - August 30, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Palmdoc Tags: - Health tips - Nation - Palmdoc Aging ALS Art Asian Band Behaviour Blogs Call car CDC clinic death dengue Detection diagnosis doctor doctors ENT ER Fever Flu Gene Government GP GPS guidelines H1N1 Source Type: blogs
How to Ruin LivesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Nobody Waved Goodbye
A vintage feature film about an angsty teen who rebels against his overbearing middle class parents, gets into trouble with the law after speeding in his father’s car, sees a psychiatrist, falls deeper into delinquency, fights with his girlfriend, and… The fashion and music may be dated, but the dialogue is eerily contemporary and realistic (I’m now resenting my parents all over again). Well-acted & directed, this is an excellent drama that won seven film awards. Complete info here.
(Source: Channel N)
Source: Channel N - August 21, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: sandra at psychcentral.com (Sandra Kiume) Tags: Art General Vintage brain CanCon forensic law psychiatry psychology relationships video youth Source Type: blogs
The Icarus Project Late Summer 2009 UpdateEmail this article to a colleague.
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River swimming, cross country touring, backyard (vegan) barbecuing,
bicycle rambling, gardening/harvesting/gleaning -- summer is here. Late summer, to be precise, which is the fifth season in chinese medicine, with a tempo and mood all its own. The Icarus Project has been spreading and connecting, swarming and flowing in multiple omni-directions over the past four months, gathering and connecting a community of radical-minded visionaries to change the world and nurture mental wellness. Here's a recap and some website art as we enter the last few weeks of glorious summer and welcome the coming fall...
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Source: The Icarus Project - Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness - August 20, 2009 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Icarus Project Tags: art campus organizing community icarus organizational icarus press video Source Type: blogs
Wayback Wednesday: Tattoos for LifeEmail this article to a colleague.
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Yup, tattoos still seem like they’d be the perfect solution for PWDs who resist wearing the all-important medical ID jewelry. And yet the concerns over infections remain. Dr. Bill Quick reports that the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) is all for medical tattoos these days, and has some excellent tips on avoiding infection.
Meanwhile, one [...] (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - August 19, 2009 Category: Diabetes Authors: AmyT Tags: Fun Stuff Personal Stories body art diabetes tattoos diabetic medic alert medic alert tattoos medical id medical tattoos SafetyTat type 1 diabetes Source Type: blogs
Dead-On Anatomic ArtEmail this article to a colleague.
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This smoking shelter is located on the campus of a local community college. I love the artwork... (Source: Not Totally Rad)
Source: Not Totally Rad - August 19, 2009 Category: Radiologists Tags: art death and dying humor Source Type: blogs
Be a part of he-art!Email this article to a colleague.
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Today sees the launch of HE-ART, a project to bring together artwork by home educated children from across the UK to be exhibited in the autumn to raise awareness of home education.Giving an opportunity for the children themselves to respond to the Badman review with the theme 'why I love home ed'.Open to any home educated child, with no restrictions on media, or size, just like their imagination there is no limit!An information flyer (pdf for download) can be found here or obtained by emailing info@he-art.org.uk.You can also telephone 01262 468243 or 07768225169 for further info.Get creative, and get your artwork to us by...
Source: Aspie Home-Education - August 15, 2009 Category: Autism Tags: art home education Source Type: blogs
Beyond postmodern bioart?Email this article to a colleague.
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Yesterday, Vancouver-based writer and curator Robin Laurence wrote a persuasive plaidoyer for post-postmodern art, which I believe has some implications for the understanding of bioart in museums (I’ve been musing about bioart in sci/tech/med museums before).
Laurence identifies a movement of “emerging and established artists who are working with found and salvaged materials, discarded objects and even detritus in what could be seen as a ’shabby’ or ‘garbage’ aesthetic” which draws attention to “everyday waste and overconsumption”:
British artist John Isaacs employs not...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - August 14, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: art and biomed museum and knowledge politics Source Type: blogs
Endoscopic art performanceEmail this article to a colleague.
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Come to Copenhagen and watch UK-based artist Phillip Warnell’s intestines from the inside on Sunday 13 September.
The performance will take place in the old anatomical theatre at Medical Museion at 2 pm. Phillip will swallow a pill camera that is going to send images to a screen — allowing you to follow its way through his intestinal system. London-based consultant gastroentorologist Simon Anderson will be commentator.
Art historian Rune Gade, body historian Adam Bencard and historian of ideas Jan Eric Olsén will set the performance in perspective with references to the status of contemporary performa...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - August 13, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Tags: art and biomed displays/exhibits visualization Source Type: blogs
