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...McKinsey's report, which was completed as part of nearly $15 million worth of work for the Department of Health this year, also called for a recruitment freeze within the next two years and for a drop in medical-school admissions, according to the Health Service Journal. It said savings of up to $5 billion a year could be made by improving staff productivity, while more than $3 billion could be saved on external contracts with waste-disposal companies, food suppliers and other contractors. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...Even small enhancements can have profound impacts, right? There are approximately 10 million scientists in the world. If you could improve their cognition by 1%, the gain would hardly be noticeable in a single individual. But it could be equivalent to instantly creating 100,000 new scientists...
...been virtually undisturbed by humans - the scientific discovery of new species is actually quite routine. In fact, biologists are identifying new species at a torrid rate, about 50 a day; nearly 17,000 new plants and animals were described in 2006 alone, or some 1% of the 1.8 million species that have been recognized so far. (See 10 species near extinction...
...truth is that scientists have only the foggiest idea of how many animals and plants exist on the planet. Estimates of the total number of species range wildly, from 5 million to 30 million to as many as 100 million. Although multitudes of uncharted animals and plants may be hiding in the tropical rain forest or at the bottom of the ocean, many new species are discovered today in the lab, where scientists examine the DNA of what appears to be a single, widely distributed species only to find that it's actually a collection of separate species that look...
...plants than anywhere else on the planet. Papua New Guinea lost more than a quarter of its forests from 1972 to 2002, and the BBC team noted that trees were being logged just 20 miles from where the Bosavi woolly rat was found. As of 2005, some 6 million hectares (14.8 million acres) of primary, untouched forest were being leveled annually - and each time a rain forest is burned or logged, it takes with it species we'll never get the chance to count...