SARS and Bird Flu fightback includes surveillance of disease rumours. Nature.com reports:
“Listening to gossip may sound like a flimsy means of spotting potentially devastating microbes and viruses. But the World Health Organization (WHO) already uses ‘rumour surveillance’ to monitor online media for early signs of epidemics, including ebola, cholera and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).”
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A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
From a Wired article on this:
“Tax attorneys. Radiologists. Financial analysts. Software engineers. Management guru Peter Drucker gave this cadre of professionals an enduring, if somewhat wonky, name: knowledge workers. These are, he wrote, “people who get paid for putting to work what one learns in school rather than [...]
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“Moisture from the tear ducts contains glucose that binds with the molecules of boronic acid [added to disposable contact lenses], with the reaction causing fluorescence.”
Useful if you are prone to hyporglycemia or have insulin related illnesses.