Category: Wholly Hopkins Fall 2009

The here, then gone, but soon-to-return nursing shortage

August 27, 2009 |  by Cassandra Willyard

The current market remains tight, but that should not be regarded as an indicator that the shortage has been averted. It’s only been postponed, experts say.

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Plotting longitude with El Instrumento

August 27, 2009 |  by Michael Anft

The device is an exact recreation of a tool that cosmographers used 400 years ago to solve a scientific puzzle that vexed the Spanish empire and other colonial powers: how to accurately determine degrees of longitude.

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High cost of care creating “medical tourists”

August 27, 2009 |  by Dale Keiger

Americans, Europeans, and patients from the Middle East who need eye surgery, hip replacements, or cardiac procedures are flying to India or Mauritius or Singapore or Abu Dhabi.

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Vignette: The official chain of office

August 27, 2009 |  by Catherine Pierre

In September, when Johns Hopkins University installs Ronald J. Daniels as its 14th president, he will not have to look far for a reminder of his presidential lineage—it will be around his neck.

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What hyperinflation looks like

August 27, 2009 |  by Johns Hopkins Staff

In Zimbabwe: A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about serious money.

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What was learned in swine flu “dress rehearsal”?

August 27, 2009 |  by Geoff Brown

It had been clear to Dianne Whyne that something bad was happening in Mexico for several weeks. But on a Friday—April 24, to be exact—Whyne, who is director of operations for the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response (CEPAR), learned just how severe and potentially devastating the spread of influenza A strain […]

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Bringing science to the teaching of arts in schools

August 27, 2009 |  by Michael Anft

New research indicates that engaging children in the arts stimulates regions of the brain that involve all types of learning.

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Too much (bad) information about science

August 27, 2009 |  by Michael Anft

Pity the poor medical consumer. An endless stream of “information”—a world’s worth of ostensible cures and regimens—spews out of televisions and computer screens at him, much of it dubious, some flat-out wrong.

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Philip Curtin, 1922-2009

August 27, 2009 |  by Dale Keiger

The mind of historian Philip DeArmond Curtin ranged widely and thrived on interaction—the interaction of cultures and the interaction of academic disciplines.

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