This will be the first of a 3-part series on Stanford University. Part 1: the title above. We have a facebook page . Part 2: The Stanford Prison Experiment and Marshmallow Study. Part 3: Elizabeth Holmes, maybe the most infamous Stanford student. Currently playing in movie theaters is a documentary about her, You Can See Everything . Rotten Tomatoes scores of 98/97!!! I might just go and see it today, which would be the first time for me to actually go to a theater since Barbenheimer weekend. Why Stanford class of 1962? That was the year I graduated, after 3.75 years there. I have had numerous postings about Stanford University. Here are a few. 7February2013: HOW TO GO TO STANFORD FOR ALMOST FREE 15March2014: STANFORD HITS THE SWEET SPOT 9December2015: THE STORY OF STANFORD WINES 15June2016: CAN STANFORD SAVE PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY? 20January2017: WHICH IS THE HARDEST UNIVERSI...
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...