Banjawarn Station takes up a million acres of shrub and grassland on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert in the middle of Western Australia. It is marginal land to graze livestock but about as isolated as any habitable place that exists on the planet and the perfect location to do things without being watched. … Read more
The devastating toll of the Government’s ‘disastrous’ policy of encouraging care homes to take patients with coronavirus is revealed today. Grieving relatives told of their ‘agony and anger’ at losing elderly loved ones because of the strategy, which they say ‘abandoned an entire generation.’ Care home managers also complained that they had been ‘pressured’ into … Read more
The world is now regularly getting so hot and humid during heatwaves that some locations surpass the ‘theoretical human survivability limit’. Doomsday predictions made by scientists expected this to happen due to global warming, but not for several decades. But a study found parts of the world have already become so hot and humid during heatwaves that … Read more
US death rate for coronavirus is 1.3% – TEN TIMES more fatal than the seasonal flu but less deadly than the WHO’s initial prediction of 2% Researchers created a model in which 35.5 million Americans would contract COVID-19 this year, as many as contracted the flu last year The model, based on symptomatic cases, found … Read more
Coronavirus may be far more deadly than current official fatality rates indicate, a new study suggests. Predictions University of California, Berkeley, researchers made based on death data out of Italy claim that a 0.5 percent fatality rate is a ‘conservative’ estimate for New York City. Overall, they anticipate that the virus may up to kill … Read more
‘Sunday driver’ effect is part of the reason MORE fatal car crashes occur in rural areas than in urban cities Peak for fatal car crashes is in rural areas and on a Sunday, UCL study shows Weekdays have two spikes in collisions for morning and evening rush hour More total collisions are seen in urban areas … Read more
One day, Abbie Mifsud was acting lethargic for the normally bright and bubbly six-year-old. A week later, she couldn’t walk in a straight line – and five months later, Abbie was gone, killed by the aggressive brain cancer, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). When Abbie was diagnosed in 2011, her mother, Amanda, was horrified and … Read more