Living Nerdy in Sydney

You would often hear about Measles on the news these days. You probably have heard about the case of the family bringing their child with Measles to Disneyland in 2014, which ended up spreading the disease to many others.Or you might have heard about the scam which tried to link Measles vaccination to autism. There are many arguments for and against Measles vaccination (MMR - Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccination). Parents who are considering why they should or not vaccinate their child should seriously weigh out the harm from a Measles infection on their child versus the risk of vaccination. (And not just on the risk of vaccination alone.) One of the more common arguments you hear from anti-vaccination campaigners is that Measles is just a rash and it is not a big deal to get it. The truth is often far from it. This is largely likely due to most first world populations have such low rates of Measles, due to vaccination, that people are very unlikely to have first hand experien...

Our local shopping mall, East Village, has recently experienced a bunny invasion. Seriously, bunnies hang from baskets from the ceiling. Bunnies sit on the stage. Bunnies line the aisles in Coles supermarket. Bunnies can even be found 'driving' a car! Yes, as you can deduce, it IS Easter time. But much as you would like to think, bunnies have close to nothing to do with Easter at all. In fact, even Easter eggs isn't part of the Christian Easter story. The Christian Easter story is all about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, the Christian God, became man in order to save his people. Human kind need saving because of sin. Sin is the rejection of God as Lord over your life. The punishment of sin is eternal death. God saved his people by dying the perfect death for them. God, being perfect, died on Good Friday, a death He did not deserve. On Easter, Jesus overcame death by resurrecting from the dead. Resurrection meaning, rising from the dead and never to...