Sentences of note
September 27, 2013 1 Comment
Things I read / heard this week:
Germany once prided itself on being the “photovoltaic world champion”, doling out generous subsidies – totaling more than $130 billion to citizens to invest in solar energy…by the end of the century, this will have postponed climate change temperature increases by 23 hours.
Source: Bjorn Lomborg
“If I was Saddam Hussein and I really wanted to make a virulent flu virus, I would take a recently drawn flu virus, I would passage it through groups of 20 prisoners, I’d take the virus from the ones who were dying, and I would passage it through more. Anyone could do this. You just have to be unscrupulous enough.”
Source: Peter Doherty
People pay more attention to the number killed in a natural disaster than to the number of survivors when deciding how much money to donate (estimated at $9,300 per person killed). The number of people affected in the disasters, on the other hand, appeared to have no influence on the amount donated to relief effort
Source: Journal of the Association for Psychological Sciences
Marc Gawley 