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Asbestos causes lung cancer. Smoking is responsible to the majority of lung cancers. A specific genotype increases your risk of breast cancer, and measles is a virus that if not prevented can cause brain damage or in sever cases death. All the above statements are scientifically supported facts, identified through public health research. Unfortunately, the […]

I have blogged about this topic several times: How do you get other scholars onboard Twitter? Unless they are already there, they can be difficult to convince of the benefits of Twitter. Time constraints; horror stories of misinformation, fake profiles and a channel for spreading evil rumours; and assumptions that Twitter is the essence of […]

Statens Museum for Kunst og Danmarks Medie- og Journalisthøjskole arbejder i øjeblikket sammen om at undersøge erfaringer med web-tv/online video i kultur- og museumsformidling. I den forbindelse havde jeg den ære og fornøjelse at blive inviteret på frokost af Journalisthøjskolens Peter Østergaard Sørensen i deres hovedkvarter i Emdrup. Vi havde en dejlig åben snak om web-videoernes flydende og […]

“I don’t have time to Tweet.” “I’m not interested in what various celebrities are doing.” “I don’t know what I would get from it.” These are typical responses I encounter when I ask academics if the are on Twitter. And I don’t blame them for their replies. Until you’re into the Twitter world it is […]

Public Health is a broad field, and finding ones place in the palette of colours that public health consists of is tricky. I have been around many corners ranging from international health, health statistics and information systems to planning of care, health policy and governance. And lately public health communication. I don’t know if I […]

Yesterday, I got an email congratulating me, that I am now a member of EUPHA – The European Public Health Association. With a public health background this is naturally an association I feel it only right that I be a member of and I assumed that I would be able to find myself as a […]

My new bedtime reading is made of dramatic stuff. It is about children with dangerously high fevers, about parents fearing for the life of their offspring, and about healthy maids milking cows. It is about the enthusiastic joy of getting closer to immortality and the birth of fears so great that people turn their backs […]

How long can a conference continue after it has ended? I don’t know the answer, but I know that Science Online 2012 is definitely not over yet, despite the fact that the last plenary session ended more than two weeks ago. On the Wikipage of the conference the list of blog coverage after the conference […]

Do term papers have to be written with pen and paper? No, luckily not anymore. Is it necessary to hand in a printed version of your exam paper? No, universities (at least in Denmark) now let you submit online. Would most people use programmes like Word etc for writing their assignments? Probably yes. But how […]

Science Online 2012 is over, and I must admit that I’m still full of all the inputs, impressions and ideas that almost overloaded my head during those three days in North Carolina. Knowing where to start and where to end when giving highlights of the (un)conference is difficult. A blog post on my general reflections […]

Hvis man lytter med øjnene overvældes man af laboratoriets rytmer. Laboranternes sikre hænder udfører deres rutiner perfekt, og efterlader ingen plads til overflødige bevægelser. Ved at fokusere på en enkelt handling – overhældningen af en klar væske fra et reagensglas til et andet – forsøger jeg at vise al den menneskelige erfaring, rutine og familiaritet som inkorporeres […]

When listening with the eyes, the laboratory overwhelmed me with rhythm. The rhythm of the steady hands of the lab technicians performing their routines to perfection, leaving no superfluous motion. Focusing on a single movement – emptying the content of one test tube in to another – this video tries to incapsulate the amount of human experience, routine and familiarity […]