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Transparent goverment finances and actions.

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  A comment on Talk: Ji-Hae Park: The violin, and my dark night of the soul

  May 24 2013: Dear Keith,
  I got a very different message from Ji-Hae Park. She was very depressed because she was feeling the pressure to be the best and go beyond, as you say. She only got better from her disease when she understood that trying to live happily was the only possible way to live well. That is her message. Play your life!
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  A comment on Talk: Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do

  Feb 1 2013: Steven,
  Can girls play too?

• A reply on Talk: Ellen 't Hoen: Pool medical patents, save lives

  Dec 16 2012: You mean the variola vaccine guy? Did he make any money out of it? Nowadays it is very hard to come up with something that efficient for a disease...Almost everything that is "simple" has already been discovered... Nevertheless, the billion dollar estimate includes all the researched substances that never make it to the marketing phase. The one that does has to pay for all the others, pun intended!
  And I totally agree that the big pharmas make way too much money, even when we consider their costs.

• A reply on Talk: Ellen 't Hoen: Pool medical patents, save lives

  Dec 14 2012: The development of a new drug, from its first development or discovery, research in cells, animals and then humans, until time to approval and marketing, takes around 10 to 15 years, sometimes more. The total costs are more than 1 billion US$ per marketed drug. This may explain why the patents last so long.

• A reply on Conversation: Is Faith inherently irrational?

  Sep 20 2012: Dear E G,
  There are many religions in the world that have inner consistency. I would guess you believe in just one. Why?