'General Health' Category
Staying Sane and Healthy At Home
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All of my adult life I have had fairly unconventional jobs. Apart from two years where I was a teacher of adults, I haven’t been employed in the usual way - and this was working in a gaol, so that was a bit unusual too. (You can read more about [...]The Past Can Make You Ill: Three Tips to Help
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Researchers at the University of New South Wales (in Sydney, Australia where I live), such as Professor Coiera, have been looking at how people search for health information on line. Their news release is titled, “Why the web tells us what we already know”.
They found that when people are looking for health information [...]On My Deathbed . . .
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On My Deathbed I Won’t Care About My Technorati Ranking, or, The Seduction of Measurement.
I like blogging about what I’m interested in, I’d like to make my income from [...]Four or Five Stages of Learning: a case study of learning Bogglific on Facebook.
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This is the story of a friend of mine, “Jane”, discovering Bogglific and getting better at it.
Bogglific and How It Is Played
What’s Bogglific? It is an on line version of Boggle on the social networking site Facebook. It is a 4X4 or 5X5 grid in which random letters of the alphabet are displayed. [...]Sleep and You
This is a guest post from Francis McGrath. Francis started out in Public Health and has moved to include more individual aspects of people’s health as well (sort of the opposite to me - who started out focussing on the individual and then adding the social). Francis’ blog is Androdynamics - real health for real [...]
Breathing #3
Today I’d like to talk about breathing some more. Not about setting aside special times for it but just the normal stuff that happens through the day.
There are lots of times when we are waiting around
(despite - or because of - our obsession with time we seem to spend more and more time waiting). [...]Breathing #2
In my last post I invited you to watch your breathing and see if you learned anything, especially about how you were feeling.
Today I’d like to follow this theme a little further.
I’d like to talk about setting time aside to watch your breathing.
This is one kind of meditation - but it doesn’t have anything religious [...]
