What I Learned Today

[brynndragon]

The thing that prevent SARS from becoming a pandemic, from infecting a single-digit fraction of the world's population and killing millions if not hundreds of millions of people, was not advanced medical treatment. It was not any number of incredible doctors or a sophisticated emergency response system.

It was web-crawlers.

Welcome to the future.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/58

Comments

[unseelie.livejournal.com]

go watch other things at TED.

there is one on cancer.
*boggles*
ok, follow me
1) "muscle tissue makes up around 50% of the bodys organs.
2) and accounts for 1/16 of 1 percent of the reported cancer.
3) WTF?

and it gets better. ;)