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Posted by taneya on February 27, 2010 under Fun, Video | 
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I’ve been watching TED videos for the past hour and love this one from Bobby McFerrin. The video is from the World Science Festival and he’s demonstrating our mental connection w/ music. Cool stuff.
Posted by taneya on February 19, 2010 under Video | Be the First to Comment
Posted by taneya on February 14, 2010 under Photos, Project 365 | Be the First to Comment
Oh my, Kalonji and I went out on a Valentine’s Day dinner Friday night with friends. We began the night by going to Cheesecake Factory. However, the line was so long we decided to go see the movie first (Wolfman), then come back to CF for dinner.
The movie was so much better than I expected. I love Benecio Del Toro & Anthony Hopkins both, so that made it enjoyable too.
Then, after the movie, we enjoyed our CF dinner. I had the Spicy Chicken Cashew dish and had to bring more than half of it home.
Posted by taneya on February 12, 2010 under Healthcare, Informatics | Be the First to Comment
Oh, this is great! In my current class that I’m taking, Healthcare System and Informatics we’ve been having discussions about the healthcare system. Lots of discussion about the decentralization of healthcare and how that can hamper the process. I’ve just come across this video that highlights the points perfectly! It comes from Jeffrey Goldberg w/ The Atlantic.
To complement this, another blog I follow, Infor.matics, has a post that provides an alternate and equally insane scenario about what air travel would be like if it worked like healthcare.
Posted by taneya on February 8, 2010 under Video | Read the First Comment
I was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, our family having moved there in 1978 when I was 3 years old. There’s been a lot of publicity for Greensboro this week with the opening of the International Civil Rights Museum. The museum pays tribute to the sit-ins in the 1960′s at the downtown Woolworth’s by four students at NC A & T. Growing up in Greensboro, that was a history I was always fully aware of as a child.
However, my mother brought to my attention this week another incident in Greensboro that I’d never heard of until now- a massacre of 4 people in 1979. Five demonstration marchers were shot and killed by Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party members. More can be found out about it at Wikipedia and I’ve already ordered the book Through Survivor’s Eyes: From the Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre, so that I can learn more.
As I was reading about the massacre, I also learned that the band Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, whom I’m familiar with for their song from Pretty in Pink, If You Leave – did a song in tribute to the massacre. The open fire on the marchers lasted 88 seconds.
Here is OMD’s song, 88 Seconds in Greensboro.