After any disaster, people and resources organize without planning into coordinated, purposeful activity. Everything happens quickly and a little miraculously. These self-organized efforts create effective responses long before official relief agencies can even make it to the scene. But organizational theorists have had a hard time explaining or replicating this concept. Now, Margaret Wheatley ... posted on Jan 03 2003, 932 reads

Average person in Britian walks 191 miles every year.... posted on Jan 01 2003, 1,274 reads

The bathroom medicine cabinet is one of the worst places to keep medicines. The heat and moisture of the bathroom are just the conditions required to alter medication chemistry, making them weaker and possibly ineffective, and in some cases, toxic. A cool dry area away from sunlight and children is optimal. (Source: The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)... posted on Dec 19 2002, 839 reads

Malcolm Gladwell, in 'The Tipping Point', notes that ideas and behavior and messages and products sometimes behave just like outbreaks of infectious disease. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic, so too can a few fare-beaters and graffiti artists fuel a subway crime wave. They are social epidemics. The moment they take off, when they reach their critical mass, is the tipping point,... posted on Dec 17 2002, 844 reads

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Nearly 13 million people in Southern Africa face extreme food shortages between now and April 2003. Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia are particularly affected. Donor countries need to fund a major emergency food aid operation immediately. ... posted on Dec 11 2002, 951 reads

Based on their genetic sequences, people are 99.9% the same. (Source: Bill Clinton, 2000 State of the Union speech)... posted on Dec 07 2002, 830 reads

You share your birthday with more than 16 million others in the world.... posted on Nov 30 2002, 913 reads

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile national monument.... posted on Nov 29 2002, 2,027 reads

A one-day weather forecast requires about 10 billion math calculations.... posted on Nov 28 2002, 2,096 reads