AFRO-NETS> Supercourse Newsletter, April 20 2003

[Ron LaPorte <super1+@pitt.edu>]

Supercourse Newsletter, April 20 2003
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1

"My Big, Fat Greek Wedding":

There is a funny movie going around the world with this title. We, 
the Supercourse group, announce that on Sept. 19 we will have a Big, 
Fat, Greek Wedding. The husband will be Hippocrates, who comes in at 
a young 3000 years old, and his future wife, the LOVELY goddess of 
prevention and health, Hygiena who is a million years old. These two 
are marrying, despite the fact the clinical medicine of Hippocrates 
looks down upon the sweet young beauty of prevention. We will bring 
both to the Internet, and their Golden Egg will be telepreventive 
medicine and telemedicine. They make such a lovely couple, don't 
they?

It is most interesting if we review some of the fables of Tele-Aesop, 
he has much to say about this.

Tele-Aesop, 2003

The Epidemiologist That Laid the Golden Lecture

There once was a dean who had a good fortune to work with an Epidemi-
ologist which produced a Golden Lecture everyday. The lecture was 
beautiful, golden and sparkling that captured the interest of all the 
students better than any teacher. The dean soon thought that the 
school was not attracting enough students. He therefore had the bril-
liant thought that by slicing the epidemiologist up in four pieces 
with by teaching 4 traditional distance learning courses a day he 
could have 4 times as many golden lectures and 4 times more students. 
But when he cut up the epidemiologist he found that she was like any 
other human (except she had a bigger heart). Lectures did not spew 
forth from the holes in her head and the students left the university 
out of boredom. The dean neither got rich in fame and fortune from 
the golden lectures, but in fact lost his job as there were no stu-
dents to teach.

Moral of the story: Greedy Deans often kill the golden teacher

Apology:

Our dear friend in Romania, Sorin Dinescu pointed out to us a mis-
take. We have said that Hippocrates birthday is Sept. 19. Actually no 
body really knows his birthday, nor even is birth year. Hippocrates' 
birthday is celebrated in Greece on Sept. 19. We will, however, also 
celebrate his new found tele-love for Hygiena.

Lecture of the Week:

Dr. Rashid Chotani from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine created a 
"just-in-time" lecture on SARS. It is likely that many of us are be-
ing asked to discuss SARS, but do not know enough about it. This lec-
ture provides an excellent overview of SARS that you can use in your 
classroom, or your community.

The SARS lecture can be found at: 
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec10131/index.htm
There is also a link to this lecture from the front page of the Su-
percourse. 

Mirrored Servers:

EunRyoung has been very busy setting up mirrored servers. We now have 
a new mirrored server in Romania for a total of 39!!


Best regards from Pittsburgh

Hygenia, Ron, Faina, Mita, Eugene, EunRyoung, Hippocrates, Julia, Ae-
sop, Soni, Akira, Beatriz, Wendy, Zorba, Abed, Tom, Deb
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu
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