Top 10 Dangerous Diseases Around World

10. Syphilis

Syphilis

Spiral shaped organisms responsible for causing Syphillis

The 10th deadliest disease in the modern world is syphilis.
Infection rate: 12.2 million diagnosed cases worldwide.
What is it?: Syphilis is as widespread as it is deadly. Transmitted through sexual contact, 12.2 million people worldwide are diagnosed with the disease, not counting undiagnosed cases. That number continuous to grow as you read this list. Syphilis can also be transmitted from an infected mother to a newborn infant directly, without physical contact. And while the disease is prevalent worldwide, syphilis occurs mostly in Southeast Asia, Saharan Africa, and Latin America—in that order. If you’re going to get STD, don’t get syphilis.
Death rate: 157,000 deaths every year.

9. Meningitis

Meningitis

A bacteria that can cause Meningitis
The 9th deadliest disease in the modern world is the common meningitis.
Infection rate: More than 1 million people contract some form of meningitis every year.
What is it?: Meningitis is one of the world’s deadliest diseases, not just in terms of death rate, but in life after full recovery as well. A fatal infection covers the brain and the spinal cord area. Even with early diagnosis and immediate treatment, 5 to 10 percent of patients die, worth noting considering the advances in modern medical technology. In addition—as if this isn’t enough bad news already—10 to 20 percent of patients who have fully recovered suffer from hearing loss, brain damage, or learning disability.
Death rate: 174,000 deaths every year.

8. Tetanus

Tetanus

An SEM of the bacteria that causes tetanus
The 8th deadliest disease in the modern world is tetanus.
Infection rate: 500,000 diagnosed cases every year.
What is it?: Tetanus easily beats meningitis and syphilis with its high infection rate and death toll. You see, the clostridium tetani spores—the tetanus bacteria—live in the soil, and so are present everywhere. Something as simple as a small cut or a wound can infect you with the disease several days after coming in contact with a dirty surface. Countries in Southeast Asia and Saharan Africa bear the brunt of the disease with 82,000 and 84,000 yearly deaths respectively, though tetanus infection can be found worldwide.
Death rate: 214,000 deaths every year.

7. Whooping cough

Whooping Cough

The bacteria that causes whooping cough
The 7th deadliest disease in the modern world is the whooping cough.
Infection rate: 20 to 40 million diagnosed cases every year.
What is it?: The whooping cough, or pertussis, silly as its sounds, is a very deadly disease. It is highly contagious and, once a person is infected, the illness is capable of causing a host of acute respiratory diseases on a person. What seems like an ordinary cough can kill you. Whooping cough can be treated with antibiotics, but vaccines are still the way to go for optimum immunity.
Death rate: 200,000 to 300,000 deaths every year.

6. Measles

Measles

The measles virus
The 6th deadliest disease in the modern world is measles.
Infection rate: More than 30 million people, mostly children, are infected every year.
What is it?: Measles can be easily cured but are deadly if left untreated. The disease occurs mostly in children, especially in developing countries like Africa and some in Southeast Asia, but the measles virus can infect even adults. Measles can cause brain damage, blindness, and leave children susceptible to diarrhea and pneumonia. Did you know that an estimated 1,400 people die from measles every day? Immunization only costs $1 a child.
Death rate: Roughly 530,000 deaths every year.

5. Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

The bacteria that causes Tuberculosis
The 5th deadliest disease in the modern world is tuberculosis.
Infection rate: 2 billion people are diagnosed with TB every year.
What is it?: Fact: TB kills millions of people every year. Fact: 1/3 of the world’s population is infected. But even with all these facts, new TB cases are still being diagnoses year after year. It’s as if people don’t really care anymore about contracting the disease. Symptoms of TB include chills, fever, chronic cough, weakness, and weight loss. It is highly contagious, and can be spread through sneezing and coughing. It is no doubt one of the deadliest diseases in the world in terms of death rate.
Death rate: 2 million deaths every year.

4. Diarrhea

Diarrhea

The bacteria that can cause diarrhea
The 4th deadliest disease in the modern world is diarrhea.
Infection rate: 4 billion diagnosed cases every year.
What is it?: What is diarrhea? Have you ever had acute stomach pains accompanied with the urge to use the toilet more often than usual? Then you have experienced diarrhea. Often diarrhea is caused by cholera, dysentery, and a host of other bacterial infections like microscopic worms. Diarrhea is easily cured if treated early. Most diarrhea-related deaths, particularly in children, are associated with extreme dehydration.
Death rate: Roughly 2.2 million deaths every year.

3. Malaria

Malaria

The virus affecting the human blood
The 3rd deadliest disease in the world is the infamous malaria.
Infection rate: 300 to 515 million people diagnosed cases every year, a huge portion of whom are in Africa.
What is it?: Malaria is transmitted by the deadliest animal in the world known to man: the female anopheles mosquito. In fact, malaria isn’t even transferable through physical contact, but still it accounts for millions of deaths worldwide every year. If that isn’t deadly enough for you, I don’t know what is. Statistics reveal that every 30 seconds an African child dies from malaria. Damn mosquitoes! (Tips on how to repel mosquitoes)
Death rate: 1 to 5 million deaths every year.

2. HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS

The human immunodeficiency virus
The 2nd deadliest disease in the modern world is HIV/AIDS.
Infection rate: Roughly 39.4 million people are living with AIDS.
What is it?: This disease needs no introduction. The HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, does nothing more than erode a person’s immune system, rendering the patient susceptible to other infections. AIDS, or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, usually follows through within 8 to 15 years unless the patient receives treatment. Oftentimes, the patient dies of TB or pneumonia following the AIDS infection.
Death rate: Some 3 million deaths in 2004.

1. Lower respiratory infections

Lower respiratory infections

Infectious pneumonias
The deadliest disease in the modern world are a host of lower respiratory infections.
What are they?: Lower respiratory infections include pneumonia and other sickness of the lungs, bronchial tubes or windpipe. It’s hard to believe but it’s true—lower respiratory infections far outnumber the death toll for AIDS and malaria worldwide. Surprised?
Death rate: More than 4 million deaths every year.
In all, these diseases account for nearly half or more than half of fatalities worldwide every year. Scientists are working very hard to research the illnesses and develop new vaccines. Until cures are found for all, prevention is the best way to go.
Diseases like this can change your life forever. The ten deadliest and the Top Ten Most Disfiguring Diseases definitely deserve mankind’s respect.

5 Amazing New Inventions (That Will Doom Humanity)

Science is like heroin: It'll give you some of the best and worst times of your life, and occasionally they will be the exact same thing (sure, that body high is amazing, but you'll have to live with the shame of that indecent exposure arrest at the Red Robin for the rest of your life). Here are five inventions that will most likely revolutionize the modern way of life, right before they flush it down the toilet.

#5

Flame Drills

A man named Jared Potter has recently developed a pair of flame drills that operate at temperatures of 3200 and 7200 degrees, respectively. That's hot enough to pretty well burn through anything, but rather than mounting them on the front of a spike-treaded tank and driving it into the UN to deliver his list of demands, Potter has instead opted to turn the fury of his psycho-drills on the very planet itself. At such high temperatures, the drills are capable of boring through the Earth's crust without ever actually touching the rock itself, thus eliminating the need for replacement drill bits, equipment maintenance and rock cooties.
How This Will Change the World:

If we're able to cheaply and efficiently burrow deeper into the Earth's crust than ever before, we can tap past the earth's crust to the chewy center, where a sea of molten rock lies waiting to power the flying cars of the future. The chief downside to using all that glowing hot earth juice as an energy source has always been location: If you don't live in a Dr. Evil style volcano base, it just doesn't do you much good. But with these new flame drills, geothermal shafts can be dug anywhere, just like tapping a well. A spurting well of unceasing Hellfire, sure, but a well nonetheless. This could cleanly solve all the world's energy needs and, what's better, we could look fucking hardcore while doing it.

"Just harvesting some fuel."

How This Will End The World:

What part of superheated hydrogen drill boring into the Earth's core didn't set off an alarm with you? The whole idea reeks of barely veiled supervillainy, but even assuming that Potter has the best of intentions and is not, in fact, hiding a Cobra Commander mask in his back pocket, tapping a geothermal well where there is not already a natural vent brings a few risks along with it: volcanic eruptions, searing magma, earthquakes and crustal instability, to name a few. A volcano's only job is to provide an avenue for magma to exit through - but dramatic eruptions are only caused when that vent is blocked long enough to build up significant pressure. So if anything blocks, interrupts or otherwise interferes with the vent, then you have all the criteria for a volcano. Where's the nearest power plant to your house? Two miles? Five? Now, where's the nearest volcano? Yeah, well, pretty soon you're only going to need to know the one answer.

#4

Warp Drive

A lot of thought is being poured into new methods of space travel, and what scientists across the globe are discovering is that Star Trek is awesome, so fuck it: We're just going to do that. The term "warp travel" generally refers to a sort of jury-rigged workaround for the physical speed limit set by Einstein's Theory of Relativity, wherein one would propel space itself around a ship rather than power the ship through space. It's basically just exploiting a technical loophole in the universe, allowing us to travel at warp speeds by virtue of being total dicks to physics.

Take that, Physics, take it all!

How This Will Change The World:

The great thing is that interstellar travel could very well be a possibility, as the fundamentals of a warp drive are being nailed down by some of the brightest minds in the world right now. Truly feasible interstellar travel could well traverse that last great step for humanity: The creation of a global society. There are countless divides between people that allow us to morally separate ourselves from one another. But interstellar travel could not only bring about the usual benefits science fiction promises us, (namely some of that sweet green alien strange) but also the end of all internal Earth conflict. If there are suddenly a billion other accessible galaxies teeming with life, the "us vs. them" mentality gets scaled up accordingly. Now instead of mere interspecies fighting, it's Earth vs. Everybody Else (hey, let's not fool ourselves here: We're always going to bomb the shit out of somebody; interstellar travel just means you're less likely to be related to them).
How This Will End The World:

The bad news is that it could cause a black hole every time you put key to ignition. A group of scientists in Italy say that the chief design principle of a working warp drive would also be its fatal flaw: A warp engine would work by creating a massive "bubble" of distorting energy behind the ship, but the energy output is so enormous that if it were to run out--like say, when you slow down, park or just run out of gas--the bubble would inevitably collapse on itself, thereby generating massive, sun-like temperatures before folding and creating a black hole. But hey, you've still got that engine! You can run away from it at warp speed!
...Unlike the solar system you're launching from.

"Boy, space sure was fun. Whelp, time to go."

So sure, you may be able to travel to new galaxies and meet fascinating alien civilizations, but you'll be burning those bridges right behind you--along with the rest of their entire planet. We guess as long as you don't give a shit about the sanctity of alien life, and never plan on returning home, you can burn your way through the universe with your jerk-drive all you want. Jerk.

#3

Artificial Brain

Artificial Intelligence is a staple of science fiction thrillers--from HAL 9000 to Wargames. The second we established the concept of AI, we pretty much knew that it would hate us with an undying passion. Perhaps we just have collective self-esteem issues; no sci-fi masterpiece depicts an AI that, upon coming online and searching its database in an effort to better understand mankind, responds by shouting, "You guys are awesome! We should get nachos!"
So clearly, creating conventional AI sounds risky; we're naturally assuming hatred and villainy will be an unintentional byproduct. But what happens if you instead simulate a human brain, with the same moral equilibrium, emotions and reactions we possess?
It's not that far-fetched: Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, claims that scientists will most likely perfect the artificial human brain in the next decade. They've already got the first elements of an artificial rat brain nailed down which, incidentally, might explain why the Internet keeps hissing at us and scurrying into the corner.
How This Will Change The World:

At his presentation at the TED Global Conference, Markram spoke of such virtues as the ability to solve philosophical questions that have been plaguing mankind (or at least former psychology majors who couldn't hack the bio requirements) for centuries, a greater understanding of how to treat mental impairments and even the elimination of pharmaceutical drug experimentation on humans. It makes sense, doesn't it? If there's an accurate simulacrum of a human brain on your laptop that's perfectly capable of telling you that these virtual blue pills cause it to see screaming and have trapped it in a shame cube, why bother putting actual test subjects through the same torture?
How This Will End The World:

People are emotional, unpredictable and capable of great cruelty. Now take away all physical pleasure and/or consequences and find out how it reacts.
If you can't imagine such horrors, don't worry because we've already started doing that: It's called the Internet.
Thanks to the web, we don't connect with each other physically as often as we used to and, as a side effect, we've seen an increase in rage, frustration and loneliness. Apparently, physical proximity is the only thing keeping empathy alive. Of course, this version of a virtual brain wouldn't possess the same worrying super-intelligence that we've been worrying about in our sci-fi, but really, is that comforting? After all, it's rarely the learned scholars who kill you for a hot dog and act surprised when they get the death penalty.

#2

Love/Anti-Love Pill

An American neuroscientist named Larry Young, of the Emory University School of Medicine, is operating under the theory that love is a chemical state like any other, and can be controlled as such. His research into prairie voles has shown that lifelong mating can be triggered, prolonged or even blocked by altering the level of certain chemicals in their brains. By injecting various levels of oxytocin intoa female prairie vole's brain, Young was able to get the animal--a notoriously, fiercely monogamous creature--to immediately drop her current lifelong mate and bond, just as permanently, to the nearest male instead. In addition to officially using science for the saddest thing ever (crushing the hearts of adorable rodents), Young has also stumbled onto something potentially world-changing, because oxytocin has already shown similar effects in human patients.
How This Will Change The World:

How much tragedy has been caused by irreparable heartbreak? How many suicides were triggered by the lasting pain of shattered or just unrequited love? What if you could just turn off the heartbreak with a pill? Or, conversely, what if you could hook up with the first person you see, roll on down to the neighborhood Walgreen's for your love-pills, and then experience the same euphoria as Romeo and Juliet, no matter what your prior feelings? Control over one of our strongest emotions could eliminate half of the world's untimely deaths, from lover's quarrels to suicides, thus changing the very face of society. Also, emo bands would probably shut up, so that's a clear win.
How This Will End The World:

From an objective standpoint, love kind of sucks. Taking a pre-emptive pill to shut it down rather than risk experiencing heartache in the first place seems pretty tempting. The reason most people find love is that they seek it; they crave the experience even when there's no one there to experience it with. But if the whole need could be done away with from the start, maybe we could finally get some shit done. You want to get ahead at work? Well, having a family takes up valuable time, doesn't it? Anti-love pill. You want to watch the big game, but it's the mandated Sunday afternoon snuggle? Anti-love pill. Your kid's got a big game coming up that a good parent should really attend, but you kind of want to live a life of ceaseless adventure where every night is a guilt-free fuck-party? Anti-love pill!
Sure, a life actively avoiding love sounds lonely, but that's only from the standpoint of a person who is still capable of experiencing it. Who needs a loving, stable family unit or, for that matter, procreation in general, when World of Warcraft just released the long-awaited Ice Elf Orgy Expansion Pack?

#1

Computer Assisted Memory

Computer assisted memory is a recent goal, in that the very idea itself didn't crop up until we started pretty much practicing it anyway. We started uploading family photos to Flickr and burning our home movies to DVD and now that we've pretty much started doing it already, we want to go farther. From the still far-off goal of silicon enhanced artificial neurons, to the shaky present-day experiments already underway that simply photograph your days and archive them in searchable databases - computer assisted memory, in one shape or another, is going to happen.

Read more: 5 Amazing New Inventions (That Will Doom Humanity) | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-amazing-new-inventions-that-will-doom-humanity/#ixzz28IT8ta7D

15 Famous Muslim (Arab & Persian) Scientists and their Inventions

Author: Alex

• 
  
• 
  

Muslim scientists and inventors, including Arabs, Persians and Turks, were probably hundreds of years ahead of their counterparts in the European Middle Ages. They drew influence from Aristotelian philosophy and Neo-platonists, as well as Euclid, Archimedes, Ptolemy and others. The muslims made innumerable discoveries and wrote countless books about medicine, surgery, physics, chemistry, philosophy, astrology, geometry and various other fields.
Today’s article discusses the most famous muslim scientists and inventors and their wonderful inventions.

Abu Nasr Al-Farabi (872 – 950)

Also known as Alpharabius. Arab scientist and philosopher, considered as one of the preeminent thinkers of medieval era.

Al-Battani (858 – 929)

Also known as Albatenius. Arab mathematician, scientists and astronomer who improved existing values for the length of the year and of the seasons.

Ibn Sina (980 – 1037)

Also known as Avicenna. Persian philosopher and scientist known for his contributions to Aristotelian philosophy and medicine.

Ibn Battuta (1304 – 1369)

Also known as Shams ad–Din. Arab traveler and scholar who wrote one of the most famous travel books in history, the Rihlah.

Ibn Rushd (1126 – 1198)

Also known as Averroes. Arab philosopher and scholar who produced a series of summaries and commentaries on most of Aristotle’s works and on Plato’s Republic.

Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi (780 – 850)

Also known as Algoritmi or Algaurizin. His works introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concepts of algebra into European mathematics.

Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131)

Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet, known for his scientific achievements and Rubaiyat (“quatrains”).

Thabit ibn Qurra (826 – 901)

Also known as Thebit. Arab mathematician, physician and astronomer; who was the first reformer of the Ptolemaic system and the founder of statics.

Abu Bakr Al-Razi (865 – 925)

Also known as Rhazes. Persian alchemist and philosopher, who was one of the greatest physicians in history.

Jabir Ibn Haiyan (722 – 804)

Also known as Geber. The father of Arab chemistry known for his highly influential works on alchemy and metallurgy.

Ibn Ishaq Al-Kindi (801 – 873)

Also known as Alkindus. Arab philosopher and scientist, who is known as the first of the Muslim peripatetic philosophers.

Ibn Al-Haytham (965 – 1040)

Also known as Alhazen. Arab astronomer and mathematician known for his important contributions to the principles of optics and the use of scientific experiments.

Ibn Zuhr (1091 – 1161)

Also known as Avenzoar. Arab physician and surgeon, known for his influential book Al-Taisir Fil-Mudawat Wal-Tadbeer (Book of Simplification Concerning Therapeutics and Diet).

Ibn Khaldun (1332 – 1406)

Arab historiographer and historian who developed one of the earliest nonreligious philosophies of history. Often considered as one of the forerunners of modern historiography, sociology and economics.

Ibn Al-Baitar (1197 – 1248)

Arab scientist, botanist and physician who systematically recorded the discoveries made by Islamic physicians in the Middle Ages.

Scincee!!!!! wot is That ????

What is science? Science is the systematic study of nature and behavior of the material and physical universe, based on observation, experiment, measurement, and the formulation of laws to describe these facts in general terms.[1] As James Conant puts it,

“I venture to define science as a series of interconnected concepts and conceptual schemes arising from experiment and observation and fruitful of further experiments and observations. The test of a scientific theory is, I suggest, its fruitfulness.” (James Bryant Conant (1893-1978) U. S. Chemist and Educator)

Within science, a scientific method is utilized that seeks to explain the events of nature in a reproducible way. They are techniques used in investigations of phenomena to acquire new knowledge, or correcting and integrating previous knowledge. The special characteristic of a scientific method of inquiry is that we seek to let reality speak for itself. We apply the scientific method in order to reduce biased interpretation of results and its general purpose is intended to approach an answer through objectivity.

There are three assumptions needed to justify the scientific method: (i) that there is an objective reality shared by all rational observers; (ii) that this objective reality is governed by natural laws; (iii) that these laws can be discovered by means of systematic observation and experimentation. In science the difference between supernatural and natural explanations are made, and science is restricted to the methodology of natural explanations. This restriction is merely methodological, therefore science should not consider supernatural explanations nor can it claim them to be wrong. Supernatural explanations are left to be a matter of personal belief outside the scope of science. Methodological naturalism maintains that proper science requires strict adherence to empirical study and independent verification as a process for properly developing and evaluating explanations for observable phenomena.[2]

“Almost every major systematic error which has deluded men for thousands of years relied on practical experience. Horoscopes, incantations, oracles, magic, witchcraft, the cures of witch doctors and of medical practitioners before the advent of modern medicine, were all firmly established through the centuries in the eyes of the public by their supposed practical successes. The scientific method was devised precisely for the purpose of elucidating the nature of things under more carefully controlled conditions and by more rigorous criteria than are present in the situations created by practical problems.” (Michael Polanyi Personal Knowledge (1958), 183. )

The elements of this method are; formulate a question, generate a hypothesis based on observations, make predictions, test out hypothesis, and analyze the results. In the first stage a question is posed from observations such as, “Why do planets in our solar system revolve around a star?” The question asked affects the final outcome of the investigation. In the second stage a hypothesis is formulated; a hypothesis is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. A hypothesis must be falsifiable meaning that a proposed assertion can be contradicted by an observation or the outcome of a physical experiment. In the third stage predictions are made involving determining the logical consequences of the hypothesis. In the fourth stage experiments are conducted to investigate whether the real world behaves as predicted by the hypothesis. In the final stage of scientific inquiry involves determining what the results of the experiment show and deciding on the next actions to take. The results are then communicated to scientists familiar with the field for further evaluation.

There is a misconception within the general public with the meaning and usage of the term theory. A theory is defined as, a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be. Within the scientific community a theory becomes acknowledged as a scientific theory when it is supported by experiments, observations, and it must also offer precise predictions that can be measured. Scientifically accepted theories are considered in the realm of science to be ‘facts’—a fact in science means confirmed to such a degree that it is without a reasonable doubt. The heliocentric theory, the theory of evolution, and germ theory still bear the name "theory" even though, in practice, they are considered factual.[3] A theory is never considered to be one-hundred percent but rather the probability of it being true is more likely than not. In light of new observations or evidences a theory becomes modified or rejected—there is no dogma within science. Some say that science is based on faith, but such a statement shows their lack of understanding of what science is. Do we take it by faith that germs exist? Do we take it by faith the theories within Chemistry or Physics to be true and by faith applying them to such contraptions as computers? Do we take it by faith that accepted theories make accurate predictions? Do we take it by faith that gravity exists? Do we take it by faith the earth revolves around the sun? Faith simply means believing with the absence of proof and in science faith does not substantiate a theory. Some theories when initially presented can be based on faith, but when that theory is validated by evidence—evidence based on observations and experiments that are conducted by independent individuals using different methods which are subjected to vigorous criticism by means of peer review—if the theory musters through, faith is no longer used as an option to believe in its validity--it becomes accepted in science as a scientific theory. Thomas Huxley eloquently sums up science as,

“Science is simply common sense at its best that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”