portable learner

Now, where did I put the internet?

portable learner

Shanta Rohse's notes on learning in the net age

What’s in store for Canada in 2009 in the area of technology law and policy? Michael Geist’s month-by-month blow predicts entrenched positions, slow, comprised progress on issues like copyright reform and net neutrality, only to be interrupted and displaced off the agenda by a November election (the fourth in six years). Funny in a laugh-instead-of-cry kind of way.

evaluating the quality of digital resources

Clinical trials are broken. In her review of three recently published books about the collusion between influential doctors and pharmaceutical companies, Marcia Angell reveals the systematic biases inherent in the very scientific method designed ensure best medical practices. Knowledge translation rests on the assumption that evidence-based research must make its way into practice. Her conclusion is sickening:

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of TheNew England Journal of Medicine.

Transfusion Reading List

September 9th, 2007, updated January 5th, 2009

Use RSS feeds to create a personal reading list. This is a collection of extraordinary feeds that should get any discerning transfusion information maven started. [The post is updated periodically.]

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Weekend Food Blogging: Oatcakes

April 27th, 2008, updated January 4th, 2009

Weekend food blogging is about two skills I want to improve simultaneously: cooking and web design layouts. These oatcakes have been a Sunday brunch staple for years.