You might have heard that mosquitos kill more people than anything else. Not so. More than any insect, but not serious enough make the top three. I asked Google AI about how people most die: "Old age" indirectly kills the most people annually , as age-related non-communicable diseases (like heart disease, stroke, and cancer) cause over 70% of all global deaths . However, if we strictly evaluate biological pathogens, bacteria are the deadliest category , killing roughly 7.7 million people every year (excluding tuberculosis) . [ 1 , 2 ] "Old Age" (Age-Related Diseases) ~41–45+ million Ischemic heart disease (9.5M), Stroke (6.8M), Cancer (10M), Dementia. Bacteria ~9+ million Lower respiratory infections (pneumonia), neonatal sepsis, and Tuberculosis (~1.2M). Viruses ~2–4 million (highly variable) Seasonal influenza, HIV/AIDS (~830K), Hepatitis, and viral pneumonia. (Fluctuates during pandemics like COVID-19). Insects ~700,000 to 1 million Malaria (~670K, tran...
Not much to report on today. Even Super Typhoon Champi in the West Pacific, at 185 MPH yesterday, and now the strongest ocean storm yet in 2026, has dropped to "only" 165 MPH. Expected to further weaken and sneak between Taiwan and some of those southern Okinawa islands, moving up north, losing typhoon strength in two days, with landfall near Nagasaki, Japan on Sunday as a tropical storm . Yes, TIME is a magazine, but this is Wednesday, my day for sci-tech. What time is it? You look at a clock. But time is "different" in physics. I asked Google AI, how do they differ. Yes, time is different in physics compared to everyday human life . For normal citizens, time feels like a steady, universal clock that ticks at the exact same speed for everyone. In physics, time is relative , meaning it stretches and slows down depending on speed and gravity . [ 1 , 2 ] In physics, time is not a flowing stream or a fixed clock. It is a fundamental dimension of...