Ignorance is a Killer
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In The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson charts a Victorian cholera outbreak with lessons for the world today
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In response to this recent article from the Hiveminds website, Marco Tabini has a few choice words about some of the topics they cover in the article, and cover incorrectly.   Over the last few years, I've made it a point of trying to respond to at least some of the "PHP is dead"-type articles that crop up on the Net from time to time. The latest one comes from Hiveminds and reveals a complete misunderstanding of almost every point it covers.   He notes that though the article seems to be a coherent whole for why PHP is dwindling, it's "based on nothing more than a string of misinformed concepts cobbled together to give the appearance that the author knows what he or she is talking about". Marco comes back against each of the points made in the article, setting things right and eliminating some of the FUD (fear, uncertainly, and doubt) that the Hiveminds article spreads.
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Only the naÃ¯ve or willfully ignorant seem not to understand that drug use has been widespread for many years in elite sport. The
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Despite the availability of accurate sexual heath information, educated people still don't know the basic facts of life. Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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Comment is free: Hilary Benn: One person a minute dies from a gunshot. Now we have a chance to reduce weapons trading.
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There is an alarming ignorance about cancer and how to reduce the risk of  the disease, a survey suggests.
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Don't let the so-called experts fool you.
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The new National Intelligence Estimate is an admission of Americaâs strategic failure. Only by acknowledging that can we prevent a new 9/11.
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The public have a lack of knowledge and understanding about reproduction and sex, a survey finds.
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The real reason your stocks may be killing you.
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A CEO reveals some horrible news.
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Although the world seems more out of control than ever, it&#39;s reassuring to know one thing has retained its original essence: the soul-sucking, creativity-crushing, black hole of brain cells we call TV programming.
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Bill Gates is now saving the world, aggressively tackling third world diseases. He's a geek -- good at thinking concretely about giant numbers. We look at the huge numbers of mass disasters, plagues or killing fields and go numb. Gates looks at them and runs the moral algorithm: Preventable death = bad; preventable death X 1 million people = 1 million times as bad. More of such geeks might help us respond to today's mass tragedies.
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There is a sober intelligence behind Douglas Buck's low-budget gore, but its shrill excess drowns out the ring of truth.
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Recently, a polar bear cub was rejected by its mother in a German zoo.  Had this happened in the wild, the cub would have been left to fend for itself, and would quite likely have died.  In this case, however, zookeepers decided to care for the cub by hand, a decision which has ironically prompted outrage from at least one animal rights group, who have suggested that it would be more humane to kill the cub, rather than allow it to become dependent on humans for its entire life.    This is an interesting point, and one which has dark but intriguing ramifications when applied to certain other species - namely, homo sapiens.  Artificially prolonging the lifespan of genetically inferior instances of the species runs counter to the purpose of evolution.  It makes us all weaker.
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One indicator can steer you away from small-cap shenanigans.
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By Dr Koshy Philip  IF statistics are anything to go by, alarmingly more lives have been lost to cancer than to war. And this status quo may continue.