by Carl Howard | Apr 15, 2014 | Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, Medicine
“Whatever you do, stop drinking tap water!” my grandma told my mum over the phone a few weeks ago. When asked why, she said that she read in the paper about how ‘they’ found that Australian tap water has something carcinogenic in it. I use the term “newspaper”...
by Carl Howard | Apr 9, 2014 | Atheism and Religion, Atrocities and Oppression, Charity and Philanthropy, Feminism and LGBT, History, Medicine, Resources, Food and Environment, Society
In 2010, John Scalzi wrote a pretty good post of the things that he doesn’t have to think about every day (that other people do). I wanted to try something similar but make it very detailed about a specific area. Food’s really yummy so why not food? Below is a list of...
by Carl Howard | Jan 10, 2014 | Charity and Philanthropy, History, Medicine, Race, Resources, Food and Environment
First, consider a question you probably don’t think about often and might consider indelicate: how you clean your bum after you do a poo? Hold the thought, it’ll come in handy in a sec later. TED talks. While they might have been an exciting new thing when they first...
by Carl Howard | Dec 1, 2013 | Charity and Philanthropy, Medicine, Resources, Food and Environment
This post was originally published by Mango Salute at http://mangosalute.com/salutetheday/world-aids-day-it-s-not-doom-and-gloom The HIV/AIDS epidemic is one of the most serious health crises in the world – which is something we all know. Even if you’re...
by Carl Howard | Nov 19, 2013 | Charity and Philanthropy, Medicine, Resources, Food and Environment
This post was originally published by Mango Salute at http://mangosalute.com/salutetheday/world-toilet-day-confronting-important-unmentionables Whenever you turn on the TV or even check your postbox, you will encounter dozens of charities and causes competing...
by Carl Howard | Dec 11, 2012 | Blog Topics, Medicine, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Science and Skepticism
There’s a pretty common view that as a society we’re inappropriately overmedicalising ourselves in terms of psychological and psychiatric disorders. Some of the reasons given include: We’re self-centred and whiny first worlders who all have comfortable lives and...
