As some of you know I am an advocate of serial storytelling, in which a series of short video webisodes provide on ongoing and unpredictable real life drama, with suspense over what will happen next to selected victims, that can attract an empathetic social media following among potential donors.
Compassion fatigue is preventing a lot of donations because ordinary people are overwhelmed by the gigantic nature of humanitarian crises because they just can't identify personally with suffering on an epic scale. But when you establish small, more palatable, pathways to empathy you stand a better change of donor engagement on the big issues.
So let's get to the really interesting part, the news stories. Here are some of the most popular and most recent stories to hit the internet. If a particular story takes your interest then you might want to do a little online research in order to find out more detailed information. There is not enough coverage in the press about Hepatitis C and the severity of the infection rate is often overlooked.
This may seem like a fairly insignificant discovery, but when you think that wheat is a substantial part of many people's diet you might change your mind. The study was conducted by wheat geneticist Jorge Dubcovsky and his colleagues. The world's fulfillment in feeding itself for 10,000 years is a tribute to man's or better God's ingenuity. Now new technologies can help by creating more sustainable ways to produce more food. This is hardly the moment to stifle that ingenuity by spurning the promise of GM science.
