by zhihonglin on 4/24/13, 9:25 AM with 3 comments
by brownbat on 4/24/13, 12:01 PM
I especially liked the bit on his current expertise:
> Gates: We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging. Seriously, we have two communities that don’t intersect with each other.
For me, one of the things I didn't realize is how steep the side effects for anti-malarials can be, or how short a time frame you can take them without destroying organs. I sort of took it for granted that we had solutions that allowed us to travel the planet, that it was just a "well, poor people don't have access to our awesome first world drugs."
It's... not like that.
I sometimes wondered as a sci fi loving kid what would happen if we were on multiple planets, could diseases and adaptations evolve so quickly that travel between human communities would be basically fatal?
The harrowing reality? We're right on the edge of that very situation. We'll get that on this planet if we don't get our act together.
by kashrr on 5/4/13, 6:15 AM