The devastating earthquake in Pakistan on Saturday that so far has claimed around 20,000 lives in that country as well as in parts of India and Afghanistan is headline news worldwide, as you’d expect. Some media reports say that the death toll is closer to 40,000. Blogs and other social media undoubtedly will come into […]
Category: Human Tragedy
The continuing rise of citizen journalism
BBC News: 2005 was arguably the year citizens really started to do it for themselves. Raising mobiles aloft, they did not just talk and text, they snapped, shared and reported the world around them. Commentary by Jo Twist of the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank illustrates the far-reaching effects and changes in the […]
Mine tragedy ‘miscommunication’
Today’s news of the tragedy at a coal mine in the US where a dozen miners were killed would, for most people, be just another terrible news story were it not for a truly awful element to it. According to news accounts, information emerged initially that one miner had been killed and one other injured, […]
The anatomy of HIV
Daily Telegraph: This is the first detailed glimpse of one of the most deadly organisms on the planet, one that has killed about 25 million people and now infects another 40 million people, of which about three million will die this year alone. Despite having known for more than two decades that human immunodeficiency virus […]