In this week's Culture Club podcast, Max and Dan discuss the Garden State Comic Fest coming to Atlantic City this weekend. Then, the guys talk about the anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain (10:20). After that, Max talks about HBO's "Silicon Valley" and "Barry" (18:00) and the guys wrap it up previewing Chadwick Boseman as the host for Saturday Night Live (26:00). It's all on this week's Culture Club podcast. Culture Club podcast talks Garden State Comic Fest, Kurt Cobain and more Your browser does not support the audio element. … [Read more...] about Culture Club podcast talks Garden State Comic Fest, Kurt Cobain and more
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I always felt like a ‘third culture kid’
Helen Rudinsky is originally from America but has lived in several countries since she was a 12-year-old, including Russia, Finland, Holland, Switzerland, Kenya, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. She is now based in Vienna where she works as a Marriage and Family Therapist, and counsels couples, individuals and children from the expatriate community. She spoke to The Local about the ups and downs of expat life. How did you end up spending so much of your life living abroad? My father was an entomologist and was doing research in the former Czechoslovakia so my whole family moved there in 1968. My father had Slovak family so we did have some connections. Communism was promoted in the schools and we were seen as the enemy - capitalists. We experienced the Warsaw Pact Soviet invasion in ‘68 and we were refugees in Fischamend, in Austria for a month after war broke out. I ended up studying Russian in Montreal and then lived in Russia from 1977 to 1997, working with companies … [Read more...] about I always felt like a ‘third culture kid’
Majority of Danes want to curb drinking culture
Ahead of one of the biggest drinking nights of the year, a majority of Danes said people should drink less. Photo: Colourbox Losing weight, exercising more and drinking less are standards on many people’s lists of New Year’s resolutions. But as Danes get ready to ring in 2015, that last item may be even more popular than usual. A majority of Danes think it’s time to curb the notorious drinking culture in Denmark, a country whose teenagers are found to consistently outdrink their European counterparts. In a survey for Blue Cross Denmark, six out of ten respondents said that Danes should both drink less and change the way they consume alcohol. Blue Cross’s secretary-general, Christian Bjerre, welcomed the results as a sign that Danes might change their approach to alcohol and focus on quality rather than quantity. “In Denmark, you can get the feeling that you can only have fun with large amounts of alcohol. In southern Europe, there … [Read more...] about Majority of Danes want to curb drinking culture
These pop-culture favorites will officially be old in 2018
By Craig Hlavaty Published 10:48 am, Tuesday, January 2, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-5', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 5', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-10', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 10', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-15', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 15', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-20', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 20', … [Read more...] about These pop-culture favorites will officially be old in 2018
Patient-centred R&D: where is the culture of inquiry and innovation in LMICs?
Patient-centred R&D: where is the culture of inquiry and innovation in LMICs? Kate Holt/Africa Practice Author : Kiran Raj PandeyKiran Raj Pandey is an internist and a health services researcher with the Center for Health and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago in Chicago, IL, USA Since the majority of the disease burden and health technology deficit in the world is in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), in order to implement a patient-centred R&D agenda, it is vitally important to encourage researchers and institutions in these countries to take up the responsibility for this research. Although as far back as 2006, the report of the Commission on Intellectual Property and Innovation in Public Health and the subsequent Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property (2011) stressed the need to increase the innovative capacity of developing countries, still not enough R&D happens there. This begs … [Read more...] about Patient-centred R&D: where is the culture of inquiry and innovation in LMICs?