“When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.” ChildrenDiesCausesForgetPovertyRelatedEach DayCrashAssistanceJet Author:Benjamin Mkapa
“Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources” PeopleYearsTwoWarMatterSufferingDiesCausesWaterEconomyGrowingRiskPlanetsSourceHigherDiseaseCleanRateCancerIllnessGrantedRelatedMortalitySevereDiabetesClean WaterCholesterolHigh Cholesterol Author:Jewel
“The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise heart transplants, but do little for the 15 million who die annually of malnutrition and related diseases. Our cleverness has grown prodigiously - but not our wisdom.” HeartLittlesRealDiesMillionsHorrorDiseaseBenefitsResearchMedicalRelatedManipulationEngineeringClevernessMalnutritionEmbryosGenetic EngineeringTransplantsMedical ResearchHeart Transplant Author:Martin Ryle
“I'm sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true: many people die from cold related deaths every winter, and here are studies that say that climate change in certain areas of the world would help those individuals.” PeopleWorldHelpingCertainDiesIndividualStudyColdAreasClimateWinterClimate ChangeRelatedRidiculeTrue Man Author:Dana Perino
“The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsPersonsAbleSpiritualDiesReligiousChristianityOpinionDespairEndureFolksRelatedIsolationTestamentNew TestamentAssemblyHerdsCongregation Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“A new study found that women think men holding a guitar are more attractive, even if they are not playing it. In a related story, guys with an accordion will die alone.” IfsThinkingMenStoriesGuyDiesFoundStudyGuitarAttractiveRelatedAccordions Author:Jimmy Fallon