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Google news proxy measure — H5N1 public involvement
This Googled search was an effort to measure the types of information, and source, for use in disaster planning. So far, as mentioned in another post, [link to come] the birds count for more than the...
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No one should approach the temple of science…
No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money-changer. This wonderful sentence comes from Sir Thomas Browne as quoted by Dwight J. Ingle in his 1958 Principles of Research in...
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Why smart people defend bad ideas
Why smart people defend bad ideas – http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay40.htm “Instead I’m saying that short term bits of data are neither reliable nor a wise way to go about making important long...
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Influenza vaccine: Could good enough be better than perfect?
[14apr2006, The Why Files are another excellent source of science explanation, from the University of Wisconsin. Pam] http://whyfiles.org/231flu_vaccine/ The bird flu has killed millions of birds and...
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Bird Flu Talking Points — from elsewhere
It is useful in evaluating information and strategic planning to compare and contrast with what others are doing. This is what Minnesota has done to alert people about being prepared. The format of the...
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Making a Ferret Sneeze
This is an interesting news article which discusses how the avian flu may or may not become human H5N1, and the latest scientific discussion about what is known. March 28, 2006 Making a Ferret Sneeze...
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Hoaxes Rumors — lookup
Hoaxbusters — CIAC Internet Hoax and Chain Letter site In addition to describing hoaxes and chain letters found on the Internet, we will discuss how to recognize hoaxes, what to do about them, and some...
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Simulation of pandemic spread in partial USA (80 days)
News story with maps and quick time animation “Virtual Pandemic: 90 Days to Infect Entire U.S.“ This is a simulation of the transmissibility of the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus which evolves to make...
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Resources to Understand Epidemiology & Disease Ecology
Supercourse www.pitt.edu/~super1/ from the University of Pittsburgh Supercourse is a global repository of lectures on public health and prevention targeting educators across the world. Supercourse has...
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Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective
I highly recommend people interested in the broader area of health, culture, and environment to read McElroy, Ann, and Patricia K. Townsend, 2004 Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective, 4th...
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Bird flu hitting TV screens May 9
I hope students would be able to do a detailed critical study of the science in this TV drama, and to discuss this with their families. Dramatic presentations of issues can be very effective, but as...
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what-me-worry-we-have-plan
A commentary about Katrina’s “planning” but which is relevant for anyone’s preparedness. —re: (Submitted: 09/04/2005 10:51 am) http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/32089.html and evacuation “plans” and...
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Getting Results from Your Experts
I put this list together for the USDA Natural Resources & Conservation Service in 2002 from my earlier handouts. It is a listing of references I recommend to communities and other professionals...
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Business Emergency Supply Checklist (be Homeland Secure)
I was hoping for additional information guides for local businesses to use in their preparations. I thought the Mentoring Initiative from Ready.GOV (Homeland Security, home of FEMA) would be useful....
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NZ research on birdflu spread
This is a nice experiment. The information is needed in the overall understanding of pandemic infections and of emerging infections. People are part of the environment, but we mediate our interactions...
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Where is… Bethel from Pyongyang
datetime=”2006-10-09 T05:49:12+00:00 Distance between 41:16:00N 129:06:00E (Gilju in Hamgyong province, North Korea) and Bethel, Alaska, United States, as the fallout flies: 3122 miles (5024 km) (2713...
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Avian Influenza among NorAm Waterfowl Hunters and Wildlife Professionals
As students of this site are aware, avian influenza already exists in the waterfowl and domestic fowl of North America (contrary to the many public services announcements in May and June 2006). It is a...
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Let’s wait to be told (They know best) 2
Just because someone wears a white coat or has a degree doesn’t make them infallible. It’s up to each of us to use our own sense. “Doctor pleads guilty to felony tax evasion Published: July 30, 2006,...
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655,000 or 48,000 Iraqi deaths
Here is the original article (in pdf) http://www.thelancet.com/webfiles/images/journals/ lancet/s0140673606694919.pdf Here is how one newspaper headlined it— Survey says 600,000 have died in Iraq war...
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Pew Report: Online Health Search 2006
“Do as I say and not as I do” It really is important to assess the quality of all information, especially from the Internet (including blogs like this) and especially with respect to health and safety....
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Look at Your Garbage Bin: It May Be the Only Thing You Need to Know About...
Medscape may require you to register (for free) to read this article. I like the article because it is mostly about clear thinking. Statistics really aren’t complex, but provide a measuring tool for...
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Rumor control
I checked this when I saw it at one of the bird flu fora (not a forum which I recommend to others to read). The link provided by the unmoderated forum in question at 4:21 AM turned out to be to a splog...
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Alaska and Eskimo data in 1920 British report
Following up from Flu history and research database - http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2006/12/19/ flu-history-and-research-database/ I received an E-mail of 2006 December 19. The story of the 1918 flu in...
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Journalism can hide the truth about science
Please read the entire article, an interesting discussion about the problems in adequately reporting science to the public. In short, there must be a collaboration between reader, scientist, and...
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Don’t ignore grassroots scientists SciDev.Net
http://www.scidev.net/News/ index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=2113&language=1 ….the importance of ‘grassroots scientists’ to national development. Song Zhenghai, a policy researcher at the...
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Stats basics at Good Math Bad Math
Good Math, Bad Math Finding the fun in good math; Shredding bad math and squashing the crackpots who espouse it. Basics: Mean, Median, and Mode Statistics is something that surrounds us every day –...
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Will masks stop bird flu? US students experiment
This would be such an incredibly interesting and valuable experiment for our villages to do. We have the unique situation of genuine communities (not ad hoc ones like a dormitory), manageably small,...
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More on dirty money
A follow-up to Sanitizers – Handwashing which also has revised cautions about children and sanitizing gels, especially for businesses New employer business preparedness resource Dirty money? UPDATED:...
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How many tax dollars will be wasted in Alaska by denying “global warming”
Report Estimates Warming’s Toll on Alaska By Lori Townsend, APRN ANCHORAGE, AK (2007-02-14) A University of Alaska think tank provided a glimpse of a report today that for the first time calculates the...
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Alcohol topics backlog
I think the issue of alcohol and alcohol control in the Unorganized Borough is very important. It is also an issue which has had very little comprehensive analysis and evaluation by communities. It is...
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More reasons not to use antibacterial soaps
This was discussed here earlier but there are some new studies which confirm the earlier studies. Sanitizers — Handwashing> “What we are saying is that these e-coli could survive in the...
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Conducting arguments
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. – Leonardo da Vinci http://quote.robertgenn.com/auth_search.php?authid=243
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KYUK Friday Call-in references for alcohol and genetics
Today’s morning talk hour discussed alcohol (again). I said I would post a couple of references for those asking if some groups of people are genetically programmed to abuse alcohol. There are two...
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How bad arithmetic can win friends, influence people, and hide the harm
When is a per cent nonsense? Thursday morning the 27th (tomorrow, 10-11 AM AKT) KYUK radio will have a one-hour call-in show to discuss the ballot measure for the City of Bethel voters. This is an...
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Quick guide to critical evaluation of information sources
University of Oregon Libraries has a nice outline of how to evaluate if the source of information you are using is reliable. The questions to consider are in a table or matrix form. For example,...
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Living with climate change: are there limits to adaptation?
Even if readers don’t wish to present a paper at this conference, the question is well worth considering by communities. What are your priorities as family or community? Living with climate change: are...
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Students guide to the medical literature
Another excellent reference from BHIC (see sidebar, http://nnlm.gov/mcr/bhic/?p=2711 A Students Guide to the Medical Literature A Students Guide to the Medical Literature (by K McLucas U Colorado HSC)...
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Ask the President / VP science questions: Your choice matters!
from the ever wonderful The Why Files — http://whyfiles.org (University of Wisconsin) Today’s date: 11 Sep 2008 Questioning candidates [28 Aug 2008] The candidates are skirting issues related to...
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Where are… crime maps?
The City of Anchorage uses a publicly accessible crime map, Crime Map http://crimemap.muni.org/ which can be quite useful to people moving into the city from rural areas and looking for places to live...
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Respirator fit of a medium mask on a group of South Africans: a...
http://www.ehjournal.net/content/10/1/17 Background: In South Africa, respiratory protective equipment is often the primary control method used to protect workers. This preliminary study investigated...
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Twenty-Year Summary of Surveillance for Human Hantavirus, USA
Hard to believe it has been that long ago [see also camai-start-here] when a new killer emerged among NM and the Pueblos. No one knew at first what it was and how to avoid the mystery illness which...
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