Allergies are becoming more frequent in the western world. One in three people in Australia will develop allergies at some time in their life. One in 20 will develop a food allergy and one in 100 will have a life-threatening allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis.
Hospital admissions for anaphylaxis doubled in the ten years from 1994 to 2004, and were five times higher in children under five years old over the same period. This suggests the development of allergy in early life is increasing at a faster rate than in adults.
Children are more likely to develop allergies to eggs, dairy products or peanuts, while adults are more likely to develop an allergy to seafood.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 14 2015, @01:36PM
martyb has put "SoylentNews by the Numbers" in the Submission queue to take stock of where the community is, so in keeping with that here's a mini-survey of submissions and what's hit the home page since Friday:
I submitted 44 stories since Friday, 1 was rejected. 6 of them have been accepted but haven't hit the home page yet, 7 remain in the Submission queue. Here's the list by category, with number of comments for those that have posted.
SCIENCE
Why ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ Sound So Similar in So Many Languages Tuesday October 13, @04:02AM
Chinese SSD Maker Eyes U.S. Market for 8TB Drive Intro Tuesday October 13, @03:46AM
Forgotten Language: Jorf Could Have Been Python (or Ruby) Tuesday October 13, @03:40AM
Hackers Can Steal Your Brain Waves Tuesday October 13, @03:32AM
Can Making Seawater Drinkable Quench the World's Thirst? Tuesday October 13, @03:22AM
RNA Editing Technique Treats Severe Form of Muscular Dystrophy Tuesday October 13, @03:16AM 0 Comments
Convicted by Code Tuesday October 13, @03:11AM
How Scientists Fool Themselves – and How They Can Stop Tuesday October 13, @02:58AM
‘99.99 Percent Air’: Boeing Releases Video of Revolutionary Lightweight Metal Tuesday October 13, @02:52AM
Engineers Develop Sonar Navigation, Mapping System for Unmanned Aircraft Monday October 12, @06:10AM 3 Comments
Mussels Inspire New Flame Retardant Monday October 12, @12:47AM 7 Comments
Naughty or Nice? One Brain Scan Is Now All It Takes to Find Out Monday October 12, @12:42AM 55 Comments
How a Battery Cut Microsoft Datacenter Costs by a Quarter Monday October 12, @12:20AM 24 Comments
Android Marshmallow Has a Hidden Feature: Universal Translation Sunday October 11, @11:53PM 24 Comments
What's Not Up, Docs? Google Docs Goes Down in Time for Friday Beers Saturday October 10, @01:24AM 50 Comments
Designing a Sustainable Diet Saturday October 10, @12:46AM 40 Comments
Homemade Rocket Hits Record-Breaking 2,723 Feet Using Only Water and Air Saturday October 10, @12:07AM 15 Comments
Nanoscale Photodetector Promises Next Generation Photonic Circuits Saturday October 10, @12:00AM 0 Comments
Digital Voyeur Spied On Women’s Webcams 5-12 Hours a Day Friday October 09, @11:46PM 32 Comments
Australian Prime Minister Runs Private E-mail Server, Uses Confide and Wickr Friday October 09, @11:35PM Rejected
World’s First Laundry-folding Robot Unveiled in Japan Friday October 09, @06:08AM 23 Comments
Scientists Convert Harmful Algal Blooms Into High-Performance Battery Electrodes Friday October 09, @03:04AM 9 Comments
Researchers Test the Brain's Number Sense Perception Friday October 09, @02:58AM 6 Comments
Mexican Site Yields New Details of Sacrifice of Spaniards Friday October 09, @02:53AM 24 Comments
Discovery of How Environmental Memories May Be Transmitted from a Father to His Grandchildren Friday October 09, @02:30AM 26 Comments
Ancient Genome From Africa Sequenced for the First Time Friday October 09, @02:23AM 3 Comments
Why Elephants Rarely Get Cancer Friday October 09, @02:17AM 8 Comments
Smoking, Heavy Alcohol Use Are Associated With Epigenetic Signs of Aging Friday October 09, @02:12AM 20 Comments
Ubuntu 15.10: More Kitten Than Beast – But Beware the Claws Sunday October 11, @06:14PM 46 Comments
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Allergies Are Becoming More Frequent. Why? Monday October 12, @04:28AM 45 Comments
TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE POLICY
Broadband Britain - is It Working? Tuesday October 13, @03:03AM
Cyberwar Rules of Engagement: Military, Law Bods Mull Update Monday October 12, @06:22AM
Inside China’s Plan to Give Every Citizen a Character Score Monday October 12, @01:05AM 25 Comments
Shift from Fossil Fuels Risks Popping 'Carbon Bubble': World Bank Monday October 12, @01:00AM 42 Comments
EFSA Report Considers Risks of Eating Insects Monday October 12, @12:06AM 41 Comments
Should People Be Able to Demand That Websites 'Do Not Track' Them? Sunday October 11, @11:40PM 38 Comments
Alaska Mulls Extra Oil Drilling to Cope With Climate Change Sunday October 11, @11:58PM 24 Comments
Do We Need an Ethics of Self-organizing Tissue? Saturday October 10, @12:16AM 8 Comments
NASA Offers 1,200 Patents to Startups, With No Upfront Licensing Costs Friday October 09, @11:27PM 13 Comments
VW Says Rogue Engineers, Not Executives, Responsible for Emissions Scandal Friday October 09, @02:06AM 64 Comments
GENERAL NEWS
For the Recent and Soon-to-be College Grads Who Want to Start Companies Monday October 12, @12:14AM 5 Comments
Luxury Bomb Shelters for the Billionaires Afraid of Doomsday Tuesday October 13, @03:52AM
Exclusive - Transatlantic Divide: How U.S. Pays Three Times More for Drugs Tuesday October 13, @03:27AM
Just 158 Families Have Provided Nearly Half of the Money for Efforts to Capture the White House Monday October 12, @12:53AM 74 Comments
The Appearance of Being Earnest Monday October 12, @12:36AM 14 Comments
SUMMARY
44 Stories
SCIENCE: 28, 64%
TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE POLICY: 10, 23%
SOCIAL SCIENCE: 1, 2%
GENERAL NEWS: 5, 11%
So, pure Science/Technology constitutes 63% of what I've submitted. Social Science constitutes 2%. Of those that have posted, the average # of comments for pure Science/Technology articles, 20.75. Average # of comments for Social Science, 45. But that's ridiculous as a sample size of 1, so let's throw in Technology & Science Policy as "not hard enough" news, that gives you an average comment # of 33.33. If you throw in the 3 General News articles that posted, the average comments drops slightly to 32.75.
It seems that "softer" science/tech news generates more discussion than "pure" science/tech news, with the two highest comment scores coming in for General News and Technology & Science Policy respectively.[in bold for key take-aways amid a big block of text]
Those are the numbers for what I've submitted (because it's easy to copy & paste mine as a block), I'll leave the exercise of my submissions plus others' to you for the laborious copy & paste.
If you have other kinds of stories you'd like to see more, submit them. It's a community-driven site and anybody can. Me, I get my stories from various tech sites, the Science & Tech sections of "major" media outlets, and the SN RSS feed and submit from them based on ~18 years of experience with the community here and on Slashdot. Some days there are more "soft" stories than "hard." It's the way the cookie crumbles.
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