Humanity: alive and well in the fast lane
The human spirit – motorists emphatically included – remains intrepid, indomitable, and impervious to differences of race, age or gender.
Many people have given up on human solidarity, believing that rampant individualism has triumphed and that selfishness is the order of the day. But at every moment the actual behaviour of human beings gives the lie to this miserabilist myth.
On 12 November, cyclist Claire Pepper, 27, collided with a VW Golf on Commercial Street, Spitalfields, east London. Her helmeted head was trapped underneath the car; her bike was a write-off, and she suffered concussion, as well as a broken collarbone.
She woke up in the Royal London hospital at 2am, and could easily have died. Luckily, 10 motorists, pedestrians and drivers from Cityman, a local taxi firm, piled in to save her life. Ahmed Yusuf, 44, and Shehryar Taj, 20, plus two other drivers, were among those who rolled the Golf over with their bare hands.
The quick-thinking of these selfless passers-by is a heart-warming counter to the pessimistic accounts of dog-eat-dog anti-social behaviour spewed from the Labour Party and its hangers-on. The human spirit – motorists emphatically included – remains intrepid, indomitable, and impervious to differences of race, age or gender. Exemplary though the heavy lifting was, it is completely typical of what human beings do in a dangerous situation – from the wastes of East London to the carnage in the Philippines.
Despite everything, we still care for each other. For all the cynicism that pervades enlightened society, let’s all the same remember this event, among many others, during these dark days.
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Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls
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