Those that reward the stringent demands and tests of such endurance as sitting for 24 hours straight gazing at a screen of human flux and mayhem with the prize of epiphany?
Francis Fukuyama, an American political scientist, predicts in The World in 2003 (a sister publication of The Economist) that next year "the Chinese will announce the successful cloning of human embryos, causing moral mayhem in the United States and Europe".Those at the forefront of Chinese biotechnology greet such suggestions with a mixture of amusement and frustration.
We define disaster medicine as a human response to unexpected mayhem, with the intent to limit death, disease, and injury.
So if nature or bioterrorists created a similar virus or if it accidentally escaped from the lab, as some fear does the ferret model predict it would have little chance of causing mayhem in humans?
I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem -- one human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.
I'll never get used to land-scrubbing, wave-rearing, home-wrecking, cyclonic mayhem referred to by human names.
Distracted, churlish, and unruly, they seized a moment of human inattention to wander off into mayhem.
Hours after the Darpa contest, its cyberreasoning software, called Mayhem, went up against the best human teams at Defcon, an annual hacking competition.
Humans and perhaps their pre-human ancestors as well have engaged in murder and mayhem, as individuals and in groups, for hundreds of thousands of years.
But by the third day, the human experts had come up with more innovative exploits than Mayhem, said David Brumley, a professor at Carnegie Mellon and chief executive of ForAllSecure.
