Wednesday, 1 April 2009

The Indiana Jones of Virus Hunting

I stumbled across this video after typing 'google' into google.com and clicking on google.org.




What an amazing video.
Everybody knows about aids, recently I walked to No Mans Orchard on the North Downs Way and noticed that people (presumably kids) had written 'AIDS' on quite a few of the posts surrounding the orchard...
It made me wonder about the way we percieve aids in this country, obviously it's a life-affecting issue for many people, but clearly a lack of education on the subject leads to this kind of ignorant attitude in youth. To be honest most kids tend to pay attention in Sex Ed or Heath Ed lessons due to the nature of the topics covered, but thinking back, all we learnt in school about Aids and HIV were that they were very, VERY bad, that we all ought to wear condoms and practice safe sex to avoid catching the virus.
That's all well and good but i'd love to see schools linking this kind of Heath Ed with other classes, such as biology and geography to really gel things together in young minds. Promoting learning about the origins of global problems and what can be done in the future to solve them, through science and through positive and progressive thinking. Personally I had no idea about this kind of research, and this is a lovely introduction to the issues that need to be addressed.
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