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The Hawkeye Initiative: Special Guest Edition: The Hawkeye Initiative IRL! I recently received an email from an anonymous fan sharing how she pulled a Hawkeye Initiative themed prank on her CEO to illustrate a problem with some artwork.
My personal compliments to her and her accomplice on a mission well done; they perfectly took the concept of The Hawkeye Initiative one… -
A diseased brain condition is ordered to be left undisturbed
Arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is seen as a dense collection of vessels (the nidus) (Credit:…
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“The origins of property rights in the United States are rooted in racial domination. Even in the early years of the country, it was not the concept of race alone that operated to oppress Blacks and Indians; rather, it was the interaction between conceptions of race and property that played a critical role in establishing and maintaining racial and economic subordination. The hyper-exploitation of Black labor was accomplished by treating Black people themselves as objects of property. Race and property were thus conflated by establishing a form of property contingent on race - only Blacks were subjugated as slaves and treated as property. Similarly, the conquest, removal, and extermination of Native American life and cultures were ratified by conferring and acknowledging the property rights of whites in Native American land. Only white possession and occupation of land was validated and therefore privileged as a basis for property rights. These distinct forms of exploitation each contributed in varying ways to the construction of whiteness as property.” — Cheryl I. Harris, “Whiteness as property.” Harv. L. Rev. 106 (1992): 1707. (via blackcyborgs)(via hamburgerjack)
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FDASIA workgroup meets to analyze health IT patient safety
Among the newly-formed advisory panel’s goals are to update the public on how far the workgroup has come in forming an appropriate, risk-based regulatory health IT framework. Some of the most interesting work pertains to protecting patient safety. Here are some factors involved with characterizing patient safety risks:
- Identify the types, magnitude and likelihood of patient safety risk that may be posed by health IT.
- Identify critical factors that any framework should include to address/mitigate identified risks related to patient safety.
- Categorize critical factors and the impact of these considerations on patient safety and innovation.
Patient safety and mobile devices
Part of managing patient safety will be helping them utilize self-controlled mobile apps without exposing their data.
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Hudson River State Hospital: A former New York state psychiatric hospital abandoned in 2003
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Florida Teen Girl Charged With Felony After Science Experiment Goes Bad:
She will now “ be forced to complete her diploma through an explosion program”
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