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“In September 2007, a mobile recording studio was set up in Bo, Sierra Leone, to help the town’s musicians and HIV peer educators make an album of anti-HIV songs called ‘HIV e dae-o’ (HIV is real). Alongside the recording, a computer animation expert taught local young people techniques allowing them to create music videos for the songs.
Using these new materials, trained young Sierra Leonean peer educators will be able to spread public health messages to the region’s youth, teaching them about HIV and how to protect themselves, and helping to …

In the moment is an innovative series of “webisodes”, short online dramas formatted for the Internet. Set in West Hollywood In the moment aims at reaching gay men and at providing a portal for discussion about safe sex and relationships.
The idea is original and the advocates behind the project should be praised for having identified the Internet both as today’s most growing means of communication for gay men and as the best medium to reach them. Unfortunately, the result rather come as a miss and fails to engage with the …

Francis Collins, the geneticist who led the US National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Bethesda, Maryland, through the completion of the Human Genome Project has announced that he will be stepping down from his position on August 1, 2008.

In the 90s, Collins led the challenge against Craig Venter’s venture to sequence the Human Genome. Having successfully completed the genome project on 2003 (from which Venter draw extensively for his own project partially based on his own DNA) Collins and the NHGRI started a variety of initiatives, including the …

Who is not grateful to programmers for integrating a little search box in the menu bar of their browser? The one that saves a little bit of time and performs Google searches without having to open a new browser window. “Nifty” as they say in written Geek. Nifty yes, but innocuous? Not really, as Google records your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration through the use of a cookie that will expire in 2038. All information that Google will be happy to …