Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Bright Eyes and the LA philharmonic (video!)
“Lime Tree” performed by Bright Eyes and the LA Philharmonic — the last song of the night before the encore. Bright Eyes and the LA Philharmonic made saturday night’s concert at the Hollywood Bowl such an emotional and beautiful experience for my friends and I. It was an added bonus that our seats were 30 [...]
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Going to see Bright Eyes and M Ward tonight!
Yes Yes! At the beautiful hollywood bowl outdoors (bright eyes will be accompanied by the LA Philharmonic!). Let’s just say we (my brother, friends, and I) are sitting up in the Pool Circle area. Yes, that’s SO close that I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up playing drums on stage. Ha! Below are some [...]
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
The Jena 6, progressive blogs, and race
Matt Compton says so very much, in his post “Jena and the Internet”: When the Jena 6 does make an appearance on progressive blogs today, it’s little more than a passing nod. Huffington Post has a blog post buried below the fold; ThinkProgress gives it a two-sentence news brief.Now, in the wake of the protests, [...]
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
I thought i was an ok DJ until…
…an 8 year old and her 5 year old brother showed me up good. (YouTube – DJ Sara and DJ Ryusei Ver 1) Bring it sistah DJ!
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Parrot: “You be good. See you Tomorrow. I love you”
From “Brainy Parrot Dies, Emotive to the End”, NY Times: As parrots can, he [Alex] also picked up one-liners from hanging around the lab, like “calm down” and “good morning.” He could express frustration, or apparent boredom, and his cognitive and language skills appeared to be about as competent as those in trained primates. His [...]
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
health effects of subtle racism
(cross-posted from Cure This) From “Racism’s Cognitive Toll: Subtle Discrimination is more Taxing on the Brain”: The problem is that we have limited cognitive resources, so when we are solving one problem, we have difficulty focusing on another at the same time. Some psychologists reason from this that subtle racism might actually be more, not [...]
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
Back from working in Chiapas, Mexico
I’m back from a two week trip to the state of Chiapas, Mexico! I travelled there with a few other family medicine doctors to work in Hospital San Carlos in the small town of Altamirano. We managed adult and pediatric patients’ medical conditions, as well as delivered a few babies along with the young doctors [...]
