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...given day, examine the millions of searches we type into Google, Yahoo! or MSN. Once you get past the 12% for online shopping, 9% for educational questions, and 5% for news, deep in the long tail of what we type into that empty search box, Internet users ask about fears. Measuring what we're truly afraid of is as simple as amassing all of the searches in a given week or month for the phrase "fear of." By doing so, we can rank our most common phobias...
...Conventional wisdom is that our biggest fear, greater than the fear of death, is the fear of public speaking. Based on search data, however, conventional wisdom is wrong. In fact, the "fear of public speaking" doesn't even make the top 10. Over the last two years of persistent Threat Level Orange, the fear of flying has consistently ranked as our most ominous apprehension...
...maybe the discrepancy between these two most common fears is the concern we have about discussing our weaknesses with others. As e-mail, text and instant messaging replace our face-to-face chats, perhaps it's become easier to disconnect. We're more comfortable talking with a non-judgmental search engine about our problems, or maybe we're simply afraid of what our fears reveal about ourselves, that's #173 in the list also known as Phobophobia, "fear of fear...
...there definitive tests for its catalog of disorders. For now, its practitioners make judgments on the basis of checklists and observation - solid methodology as far as it goes, but not the same as, say, a blood test for anaemia or an x-ray of a broken femur. In the search for a test offering this kind of diagnostic certainty in mental illness, two Australian researchers believe they've made a leap. Gin Malhi and Jim Lagopoulos, from the department of psychological medicine at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital, report detecting what appear to be abnormalities in the workings...
...drift of rural families into cities in search of better jobs and improved living conditions is part of a global trend, but in Fiji the country's land-ownership policies have exacerbated the problem. Laws passed in the 1970s obliged non-indigenous farmers to take 30-year leases on the land they worked. As the leases expired, the Government encouraged indigenous Fijian landowners not to renew them, but instead to farm the land themselves. The non-indigenous farmers were given cash payouts to leave, but their workers received nothing...