Tag Archive 'health'

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

A old article on “straight backs bad for posture” posted by a friend on facebook reminded me of the picture I had used in one of my weekly news “roundups”.

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.

The four ways sound affects you.

A moving picture set detailing some of the pollution in China thanks to rapid growth and massive scale industrialisation.

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. [...]

I love TED talks, I wish I had enough time to watch them all but I don’t. So I have to make do with the occasional one and spread the good ones around to people I know.