Posted on September 17, 2008 by suedoc
This is a broad overview of the state of American healthcare that is perfectly accessible to someone like myself that doesn’t have much background in the area.
Daschle starts off by rattling off statistic after tragedy after heartbreaking story of how American healthcare is unreliable, not comprehensive, and hugely over priced. He really drives home how [...]
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Posted on July 9, 2008 by suedoc
Daniel Pink’s A Whole New Mind makes many excellent points. Unfortunately, it suffers from an awkward and unconvincing metaphorical framework.
Chapter 1: Right Brain Rising
Pink starts out explaining about the brain’s left and right hemispheres, and how each side is responsible for different cognitive activities – the left hemisphere tends to be responsible for sequential logic, [...]
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