Interrelativity: musings about interrelatedness
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I Am Because We Are: African Wisdom in Image and Proverb
We are all interconnected and we have responsibility for each other. This is the interpretation of the Swahili word, ubuntu, offered near the start of a short, inspiring interview with photographer Betty Press by NPR Weekend Edition Sunday host, Audie Cornish two weeks ago. The interview focused on the incredible photographs celebrating the lives of…
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David Whyte on Feminine Wisdom, Courage and Power
David Whyte shared his inspired and inspiring wisdom about the feminine embodiments of power last night at Town Hall Seattle. At a benefit event for Young Women Empowered (Y-WE) – an organization co-founded by his wife, Leslie – he guided the audience on a journey exploring the "five forms of female courage" and revealed aspects…
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A Compelling, Compassionate, Critique of Conservative Extremism by David Frum
the [Republican] party is getting the big questions disastrously wrong [David Frum on the GOP’s Lost Sense of Reality (New York Magazine, 20 November 2011)] David Frum, former economics speechwriter for former U.S. President George W. Bush, offers a sharp critique of the Republican Party in an interview with NPR's Steve Innskeep yesterday, David Frum…
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Usability and confusability in Health IT: doctor-computer interaction vs. doctor-human interaction
A segment on the Marketplace Tech Report, Health care providers having trouble with new technology, caught my ear yesterday. The story included health and safety concerns raised by one of the authors of a 197-page report, Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, published by the Institute of Medicine this week:…
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Hadoop, Apache and the Benefits of Contributing to Open Source Projects
Jake Homan, a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn and UW Bothell CSS graduate, gave a recent guest lecture at UWB on Apache Hadoop: Petabytes and Terawatts, offering an overview and applications of Hadoop as well as related distributed computing tools developed within the Apache Software Foundation. The presentation offered a great balance of breadth and…
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Reflections on Connections: A Review of Connected, the Film
Watching the recent Seattle premiere of Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology, a documentary directed by Tiffany Shlain, I experienced a cascading and interconnected series of thoughts and emotions evoked by this loving tribute to the intellectual and emotional influence that her late father, Leonard Shlain, had on his family and the world…
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Continuing Education: Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington, Bothell
I recently embarked on the next stage of my re-engagement with academia, as a Senior Lecturer in the Computer & Software Systems program at the University of Washington, Bothell. Like the Tacoma campus, where I taught last winter and spring, the Bothell campus cultivates a small college culture within a large university system: classes are…
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Fructose malabsorption: the latest milestone on an epic digestive health odyssey
[Update (August 2016): Since writing this post in 2011 about an odyssey that began in 2009, our hypothesis that Amy has fructose malabsorption has been disconfirmed. I hope the information in this post will still be of use to those who have similar hypotheses, or confirmed diagnoses. Amy still suffers from periodic episodes of extremely…