“Most of humanity strikes me as being apes only with much less hair.” — Tyrfingr

“Manila is one of the world’s most overpopulated cities. The Philippine capital is stretched to breaking point, with mothers four to a bed in maternity wards, primary schools with a thousand children in each year, and graveyards with no more room to bury the dead. As the world faces an overpopulation crisis, Manila provides a vision of what might become ordinary in the not too distant future. The biggest maternity hospital in the city operates on an industrial scale, with four mothers and their babies sharing each bed. The ward is at double capacity when the team arrive, and it’s so overcrowded that the nurses have to patrol it to make sure no one is sleeping on their babies and suffocating them.”

“Balancing your laptop on your knees could cause permanent discoloration of the skin and, in rare cases, cancer, doctors have warned. The heat generated by the computers can cause a nettle sting-like rash – a condition named ‘toasted skin syndrome’. Common in the days before central heating, when people huddled around fires and electric heaters to stay warm, it is making a comeback in the laptop generation. In one recent case, a 12-year-old boy developed a sponge-patterned skin discoloration on his left thigh after playing computer games for a few hours every day for several months. ‘He recognized that the laptop got hot on the left side, however, regardless of that, he did not change its position,’ Swiss researchers wrote in the medical-journal Pediatrics. Another case involved an American law student with a mottled discoloration on her leg. Her doctors were stumped until they learned she spent about six hours a day working with her computer propped on her lap.” w/ photos