Archive for January, 2008

Sepia Mutiny on CRUDE

The Sepia Mutiny, a very witty blog run mostly by second-generation Indian Americans (like myself) posted a lovely piece about my involvement in CRUDE (the movie) and CRUDE (the book). I’d never read Sepia Mutiny before so took the opportunity to browse and laughed out loud several times. I doubt I’m hip enough to write [...]

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Crude: the movie

Crude: The Movie!
A few years ago, a documentary fillmmaker from the ABC in Sydney (that’s the Australian public television network) spent a day with me in Boston, talking about oil politics. His film, which he dubbed “Crude” (after kindly discussing it with me), came out in Australia a few years ago, and won a slew [...]

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Guest-in-residency, Univ of Illinois

In a couple weeks, I’m off to be a guest-in-residence at University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois. The program that invited me is called Unit One, an educational model established in the 1970s. Basically, some 650 students live, eat, and learn together within the confines of a single facility on campus called Allen Hall. And [...]

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Gawande and the NEJM

Well, kind of. The OHRP shot out an email responding to Gawande this week. They say that the “program” was actually a research study,the results of which were published in the NEJM. That is, the peoplewho impemented the intervention didn’t actually know whether it wouldwork or not. Maybe the patient would start seizing on the [...]

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