Healthcare

My Top 10 TED.com talks

Saturday, May 1, 2010
By Cygnus Atratus

1. Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight 2. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything 3. Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds 4. Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions 5. Carolyn Porco flies us to Saturn 6. VS Ramachandran on your mind 7. Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny 8. Adam Savage’s obsessions 9. Emily Levine’s theory of... »

Free the weed? (and tax it)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
By Nano Manannan
Free the weed? (and tax it)

Surely we are grown up enough now to see the futility of our past lawmaking? At a time of economic turmoil, when politicians are chasing their tails around and the media following them, people are beginning to open their minds up to new ideas, new possibilities. You get all this marketing babble about , “a... »

Sara Burke – Irish Apartheid: Healthcare Inequality in Ireland

Wednesday, July 1, 2009
By Cygnus Atratus
Sara Burke – Irish Apartheid: Healthcare Inequality in Ireland

I think I’ve just found the book I’ll be taking with me for my two weeks off.  Sara Burke is a freelance journalist, broadcaster and health policy analyst. She is currently doing a PhD in health policy in Trinity College Dublin, and has a weekly radio slot on RTÉ’s Drivetime programme. Sara authored Irish Apartheid – Healthcare... »