While I admire anyone who has/is planning to run a marathon, doing the running myself is not my thing (although I'm happy to be in the cheering section). I'm not quite convinced that the body wants to/is built to run that many miles all at one time. Perhaps it's just left over dismay from seeing […]

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I just came off of a weekend of discussion about the Yoga Sutras and learning the finer points of the classical execution of asanas (which is quite different from the way asana is practiced today). My brain is full but happy. Perhaps it's my love of being a perpetual student but I am juiced by […]

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"Yoga is really about healing…"  –Bryan Kest
I've always felt that yoga is about connecting to self, intimacy with self. I sometimes forget that yoga is a way to connect with others as well. Since I tend to be one of those people who gets lost in her own little world (what can I say — […]

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When I worked in Corporate America (Gasp! I get an eye tick just thinking about all the corporate speak I used to hear on a regular basis.), my friend and next door cube neighbor used to issue the absolute perfect advice when things got stressful — breathe deep! As far as advice goes, I'd say […]

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A few years before I started practicing yoga regularly, I bought a CD from Wayne Dyer — Meditations for Manifesting. I was unfamiliar with Wayne Dyer's work, and I had rarely meditated. I'm not exactly sure why I bought the CD. It just appealed to me, so I went with it. The CD is essentially […]

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Or if it is I’ve been deaf to it. The Small Business Innovation Research program and the Small Business Technology Transter program would appear to be tailor made for stimulus. The NIH participates in these programs.
The Small Business Innovation research (SBIR) program is a set-aside program (2.5% of an agency’s extramural budget) for domestic […]

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Big news today at the CHI Medicine Tri-Conference. Merck has pledged to donate a remarkable resource to the commons - a vast database of highly consistent data about the biology of disease, as well as software tools and other resources to use it. The resources come out of work done at the Rosetta branch of […]

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We are delighted with Philips for accepting that the costs of recycling its products should no longer be paid directly by the consumer through an additional fee but instead become part of the overall product price. This means that they have agreed to take on the financial burden of recycling instead of it landing on […]

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Busted!
All right, I give up. Since I’ve been sucked into the whole vaccine thing again after only one day away, I might as well highlight this simultaneously amusing and depressing tidbit. Earlier today, I wrote about a coordinated attack by the antivaccine movement on the Autism Omnibus decision two weeks ago. Given that it involved […]

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This morning, I was made aware (by my better half) of the existence of Google Flu Trends. This is a project by Google to use search terms to create a model of flu activity across the United States. Indeed, the results have been good enough that they were reported in a Letter in Nature [1] […]

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