ClappingTree’s Web 2.0

Many Health wikis (according to Dr John Grohol’s Psychology Today) have been cropping up these days:

• Clinfowiki: The Clinical Informatics Wiki
• RHIO Wiki: The Only Online, Real-time Forum on RHIOs and Health Information Exchanges
• Child and Youth Mental Health Wiki: A Pilot Project Wiki Sante mentale des enfants et des ados: un projet pilote
• Health Information Technology: Community of Practice Project Home Page
• Katrina Help Info: Health and Safety
• Health Informatics & elearning

MY FRIEND Gek is graduating from Emerson College in UK soon, after a final year art exhibition in June. Seems to me that she has arrived at a major milestone here. Congratulations, Gek!

Browsing through her online album, I was particularly impressed by the interesting evolution of the seven forms (which marked seven phases of her life) and the evident beauty and professionalism in her work.

IN Dutton & Aron’s Two Bridges experiment (1974), male participants were asked to walk across the Capilano Canyon suspension bridge in Vancouver. Others were asked to walk over a low bridge. Although the men were told that they were being asked about creativity and scenery, they were actually being tested on their emotions. The woman interviewing them subtly dropped them her phone number in the middle of the questions. The same woman did the interviews on both the low and high bridges. The end results: Among those who walked on the high bridge, 60% used the number and called the woman back. Among those who walked on low bridge, 30% picked up the phone.

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