Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
Let’s talk “informed”, shall we?
Around the country, ultrasound bills are all the rage. Most of them require clinics to offer each woman an ultrasound view of her fetus. Mississippi enacted a law on March 22. Idaho followed April 3. Georgia’s legislature passed a bill a week ago; South Carolina’s is about to do the same… Are ultrasound pushers trying [...]
No Comments » - Posted in abortion,strategy and tactics by anjali
Friday, April 27th, 2007
Coachella 2007 — on my way!
Thanks to the impulsivity and spontaneity of a friend and I, we bought tix to Coachella Music Festival (this weekend) YESTERDAY. We’re head out in a few hours, staying at a friend’s place in Palm Springs, and checking out Saturday’s lineup of the festival. Sunday am is hiking/strolling time in the Joshua Tree National Park. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in art for the masses,beats,california,hiphop,los angeles,road trip by anjali
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Smiling lifelike robots — i’m there!
As the months of my family medicine residency progress (just a bit more than a year to go! yay! and yikes!), I will receive more and more advertising information about specific job opportunities around the country. Various interesting tactics are often employed to attract doctors to these jobs — including ways to entice future applicants [...]
No Comments » - Posted in residency,silly by anjali
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Powerpoint Karaoke — pass the mic!
Imagine this — you have 5 minutes to adlib a powerpoint presentation on a topic you know little about (or a lot about). The powerpoint presentation is someone ELSE’s, and you’ve never seen it before. Go! (egg timer starts)… Add a little drink, a fun audience, and 5 other adlib presenters, and you’ve got quite [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in culture,geektech,los angeles,silly,technology for the masses by anjali
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Nature’s way of saying “can you hear me now?”
Here’s a quote from Albert Einstein: “if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” Well, guess what? The bees are disappearing. In massive numbers. All around the world. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in sustainability by anjali
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007
We are Virginia Tech (nikki giovani)
We are Virginia Tech We are sad today We will be sad for quite a while We are not moving on We are embracing our mourning We are Virginia Tech We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly We are brave enough to bend to cry And we are sad enough to know that we [...]
No Comments » - Posted in quotes,violence by anjali
Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Harm reduction for your tech addiction
But wait, there’s more on the Crackberry addiction — from Bereft of BlackBerrys, the Untethered Make Do – New York Times. There was a recent Blackberry outage for about 10 hours, and the world almost imploded. A divine intervention allowed people to use this 10 hours to reflect on their addictions: “I quit smoking 28 [...]
No Comments » - Posted in culture,technology for the masses by anjali
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Pro-Palestinians and the deconstruction of “Settler Mentality”
The terror of the Holocaust has been used since World War II to justify the colonial creation of the Israeli settler state. Did the Jews deserve a state as compensation for the crimes committed against them by the Nazis, compounded by the global silence? Absolutely! But the choice of Palestine and the construction of a [...]
No Comments » - Posted in immigration,palestine by anjali
Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Just pretend you’re a terrorist…
Two wonderful friends were in town this weekend — my friend Nicole from San Francisco (who is one of my best friends from our medical school days in NJ) and my friend Deepika from New York City (who I go waaaaaay back with) — and we explored LA together. It’s always great to share this [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in los angeles,race by anjali
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
“Thou shalt always kill”-Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
Thou shalt watch this video: some words: thou shalt not buy coca cola products, thou shalt not buy nestle products… thou shalt give equal word to tragedies that occur in non-english speaking countries as to those that occur in english speaking countries… guns, bitches, and bling were never part of the 4 elements [of hip [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in art for the masses,beats,corporations,hiphop,nonviolent resistance,quotes by anjali
Thursday, April 12th, 2007
New day, new punk hair-stylin’.
I was previously going for the salt-and-pepper distinguished wanna-be-like Arundhati Roy hair look. You know, try to look older than I am, and try to embrace the white hairs, of which I had a TON. I’ve cycled between keepin’ it natural and “distinguished” looking and coloring it all. I’ve gone natural for the past year [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in los angeles,silly by anjali
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Watch what you search for, black man on free wi-fi
Already, it’s easy for a company like Google to track what users do online and sell that information to the highest bidder. What happens when companies link that capability with the ability to know where users are physically when they log onto the wi-fi network? We might see a new era in racial profiling, where [...]
No Comments » - Posted in race,technology for the masses by anjali
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
Los Angeles youth, street poetry, creative change
From “Young Gangsters’ Special Weapon: Poetry“, LA Times, March 2007: Use this time to tear up the old contracts, Henrikson told his young writers, who listened to him as if he were a guru. “People die never getting to know who they are,” he went on. He read them a Rumi poem, written in the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in beats,los angeles,the 10 year clinic/neighborhood/arts plan,violence by anjali
Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
advice for writers from atul gawande: write!
SAJAforum: There seem to be a lot of doctors who are also writers, journalists, etc. Any advice to physicians who are considering doing some writing? Gawande: There does seem to be a sudden surge of physicians communicating in some way or another –through television, fiction, journalism, book-writing. And the great thing is to see the [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in books,personal development,quotes by anjali
Monday, April 9th, 2007
A street music experiment: does beauty transcend?
Don’t you hate when people say “if you read one thing today… you should read this.” Ok, but it’s my turn. “Pearls before Breakfast”, an article in the Washington Post by Gene Weingarten, is a piece that moved me by its poetic and beautiful words, the results of an interesting experiment, and the article’s ability [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in art for the masses,beats,culture,quotes by anjali
Monday, April 9th, 2007
Food food everywhere but not a bite to eat
On a recent day, patients on American-financed AIDS drugs and their families streamed into a food distribution point at the Lewanika Hospital in the town of Mongu. Already, as the World Food Program’s stocks were running low, rations had been almost halved. Some were so hungry that they scooped handfuls of corn-soy powder into their [...]
No Comments » - Posted in corporations,food policy,global public health,tanzania-kenya by anjali
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Wandering around an albuquerque airport terminal…
Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal by Naomi Shihab Nye After learning my flight was detained 4 hours, I heard the announcement: If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic, Please come to the gate immediately. Well — one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there. An [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in art for the masses,palestine by anjali
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
In honor of the late great Marvin Gaye.
I just heard a remix of Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues (Make me Wanna Holler)”, then looked up something on Marvin Gaye, and realized that he was born today, April 2nd. And he died on April 1st, 1984, at the hands of his father (who shot him). So I decided to throw down some of [...]
