How to get people to pay more attention to NOT touching their eyes, nostrils, or mouth? We invited people, in a gathering, to say “FACE” whenever they saw a speaker touching a hand to their face. And most of those people said “FACE”, cheerily—appreciating that they were talking to themselves as much as to the […]
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Handy microbe-hunters on the other side of the world
Anemona Hartocollis reports in the The New York Times: “At North Shore University Hospital [pictured below] on Long Island, motion sensors, like those used for burglar alarms, go off every time someone enters an intensive care room. The sensor triggers a video camera, which transmits its images halfway around the world to India, where workers are […]
The hand behind Henry the Hand
Here is the right hand of the man who’s behind Henry the Hand (the plight of whom [Henry, that is] has been chronicled here recently).
Is Henry the Hand a washout?
National Handwashing Week, December 6-12, 2009, has come and gone with only scant attention paid to its mascot, Henry the Hand. In part, this is due to the low amount of hand-washing and other hand-sanitizing that occurs in the United States. That non-compliance was observed and documented by John Trinkaus in his recent study “Hand […]