Nathan Lee

What is homoeopathy? What is the 10:23 campaign? And what’s this about water having a memory and boots selling sugar pills?

The vision of TED is “Ideas worth spreading”, so with disasters similar to the recent Haitian Earthquakes I thought I’d highlight and spread 15 talks presented at TED over the years that are of interest in disaster situations and useful in (somewhat) “disaster proofing” the developing world.

Wrote a letter to the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday about the ridiculously vague “miracle” attributed to Mary Mackillop and it ended up published.

Meat grown in a lab: the ethics of vat grown vs slaughtered meat (a future discussion as it isn’t quite there yet).

This big old visualisation from the accurately named informationisbeautiful.net really sums up the reason there are problems trying to satisfy such different mindsets.
Though I’m a sucker for information visualisation I should disclose. Data and concepts such as this can (and should) be interesting.
As an aside, here’s a TED talk showing some pretty funky visualisation:

I posted [...]

The “Jesus all about life” Campaign (JAAL) is making some dodgy claims in its advertising.

Isn’t this just the biggest question no one seems to have an answer for? What value do insurers add to the health system in the USA? They have tens of thousands of people lobbying to pretending they add value.
The answer seems to be: “nothing good”. They are an unnecessary level of proxy between person (e.g. [...]