Category: Good-Bad-Weakness
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Bacteria. Viruses. Good. Bad…
Normally, you wouldn’t want to have anything to do with Clostridium novyi. The rod-shaped bacterium is commonly found in soil, manure or under rotting leaves. When it invades a human body, it releases flesh-eating toxins. The last place you would hope to find it is in a hospital. But researchers used a modified version of…
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Unknown Santa. The only way…
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), will be the next CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The oncologist and former Genentech executive will take the reins of the huge philanthropy from retiring CEO Jeff Raikes on 1 May 2014, overseeing the foundation’s activities in global public health,…
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Treacherousness
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld Next time someone ill-treats you, think twice before getting angry. Bad behaviour could be a result of weakness, rather than pure evil. Double check and see things from another perspective. Evil is most of the time synonym with powerlessness or a deep…
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