After searching for websites about depression (‘‘depression,’’ ‘‘depression treatment,’’ and ‘‘depression help’’) with a popular search engine: Google, the authors of this work carefully examined the websites. The websites were evaluated on accountability, interactivity, esthetics, readability and content quality. They also used the brief DISCERN as a content quality indicator for general consumers. They found 58 sites from which 13 were excluded: 8 were not websites, 3 were blogs or discussion forum, 1 required an access login, and 1 was inaccessible. They analyzed 45 websites, the overall quality of the websites about depression was good. Those with a high score on the .....read more »

Business cards are still around, I get them often, they're nice and they do have advantages as can be read on geek!daily: they're customizable, trivial to distribute, and cards are static. Digital alternatives like Poken and My Name is E don't seem to have enough success, only nerds and geeks not your average academic or business man has any of them. There are alsoother ways to use the internet to create, share and use your business card, but again not in much use by doctors, scientists and academics. I often ask myself how to get a grip on these .....read more »

PresentationZen Design the new book about principles and techniques for presentations by Garr Reynolds is a follow up from Presentation Zen reviewed in a previous post on this blog. This book is more practical, not a step by step instructions but it has many good examples and offers good advice. For instance which fonts to use, between all those fonts on your computer about 6-8 will do the trick. It boils down to 6-8 fonts and your all set. Instructions how to use Kuler for generating a color theme. How to communicate with color but also how to acquire good .....read more »

The government of The Netherlands has decided to abolish the numerous fixus (weighted lottery) for medical education. This meant that only 2850 students were able to go to med school a year. The numerous fixus was mainly based on high grades on high school. Universities are allowed to make there own selection criteria for admittance to med school. They could still use the average high school grades but they can't increase the number of medical students since medical education is very expensive. In The Netherlands a med student costs a 120.000 Euros a year, for comparison a students at Law .....read more »

Did you know there is a sense of humor questionnaire? It's called the Humor Styles Questionnaire and distinguishes between four styles of humor. Affiliative, use of humor to amuse others and facilitate relationships Self enhancing, use of humor to cope with stress and maintain a humorous outlook during times of difficulty Aggressive, use of sarcastic, manipulative, put-down, or disparaging humor Self-defeating, use of humor for excessive self-disparagement, ingratiation, or defensive denial The first two positive styles are negatively correlated with anxiety and depression and positively correlated with self-esteem, extraversion, openness and agreeableness. The last two are negatively correlated with agreeableness and conscientiousness and positively correlated .....read more »