Peter Saul, an Australian intensivist, presents a TEDx talk in which he tells of the crisis of death in the 21st century and implores us all to start talking about dying.
TED-Ed is almost here!
March 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
TED-Ed is an exciting new project for education that promises to bring the world’s best teachers together with the world’s best animators to create the world’s best lessons.
Watch, Laugh, Learn, Live
February 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
We’ve dug up some classic TED talks on education from Sir Ken Robinson. Watch, laugh, learn and live.
Video and the Future of Education
February 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Salman Khan speaking at TED tells us how he became a master educator of millions and how video could be the future of education.
What is the truth that lasts?
January 17, 2012 By 2 Comments
As health care professionals we all have a responsibility to help curate and deliver the most accurate information and help define the ‘truth that lasts” – we should not take this responsibility lightly
A Stroke of Insight
September 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A few years ago I was looking after an elderly woman in the emergency department who had suffered a stroke. She was aphasic — unable to understand speech or create comprehensible sentences. I explained to her family what had happened to her. Then her daughter asked me a question for which I hadn’t prepared an answer: “What does it feel like to have a stroke?”
The Creative Spark
September 12, 2010 By 2 Comments
What On Earth’s Wrong With Placebos ?
November 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’m a big fan of TED and strongly suggest you subscribe to their video podcasts if you don’t already. Rory Sutherland is an advertising whizz. He argues that adding intangible or perceived value to things we already have is perhaps no bad thing and perhaps may be the only alternative to a world of unsustainable consumerism.
Lessons from 1918
May 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I read a book called ‘The Coming Plague‘ when I was in medical school. It was fascinating. It formed a picture of the world in my mind as a bubbling soup of seething micro-organisms waiting for the right circumstances to break out, to come forth and multiply – at our expense. It also introduced me [...]
Brilliantly fighting infection
May 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
