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Comedian Joshua Walters, who is bipolar walks the line between mental illness and mental ‘skillness’. In this funny, thought-provoking talk, he asks: What’s the right balance between medicating craziness away and riding the manic edge of creativity and drive?
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June 27, 2011 by Gail
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How easy is it to stand on a soapbox and to rant and rave about this or that, or one thing or another? From time to time, I’ve wondered how easy it is to keep that up without feeling it’s all just falling on deaf ears. How do you quantify the effects of a rant […]
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Byfusion Technology provides an effective and economic solution to the global problem of landfills and oceans being overcome by plastic. Globally we produce over 80 million tonnes of plastic waste yearly, and our consumption continues to increase
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In 2005, she received the Eureka Prize for Scientific Research. She also received the 2006 Environmental Technology Award from the Association of Iron & Steel Technology in the United States for her research into recycling waste plastics in steelmaking. She wonders out loud, if you could attach value to waste, why would you waste the […]
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Bill Thomas, M.D. is an international authority on geriatric medicine and eldercare. He is the founder of the ‘Eden Alternative’, a philosophy and programme that de-institutionalised nursing homes in the USA and worldwide over the past 20 years. He is a self-described ‘Nursing Home Abolitionist’.
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