Humankind has abused the many privileges we have enjoyed living on this beautiful planet Earth. We have called it ‘Mother Earth’ but our lack of affection and respect has demonstrated our weakness and we have become undeserving progeny. Only great goodness and effort towards constructive change can alter this. … now!
Xenotransplantation is the newly emerged medical term for the transplantation of tissues or organs of one species or genus to another. The driving force behind this avenue of science appears to be largely motivated by a shortage of donor human organs needed to replace diseased organs in humans. But animals are not ‘donors’.
Some medical research companies are finding alternatives to the outmoded techniques still being used in laboratories in the name of science today when millions of animals each year are sacrificed. We would hope such advanced reforms will come speedily…for the sake of all animals.
There are around 500,000 earthquakes each year. 100,000 of these can actually be felt.
The world’s deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1556 in central China. It struck a region where most people lived in caves carved from soft rock where dwellings collapsed during the earthquake, killing an estimated 830,000 people.
The largest earthquake ever recorded was a magnitude 9.5 in Chile on May 22, 1960.
Touch screens are definite ‘the IN thing’ and are highly desired and prized.
However, as we have gone beyond need to greed in an ever growing market involving billions of dollars, the problem emerges that ITO is not an unlimited resource. Although still plentiful in China, the worldwide reserves are anticipated to be exhausted by 2020. China is restricting export of its material.
Water currents vortices, even in calm oceans and slow moving rivers, offer a promising alternative energy source as has been demonstrated and developed by an engineer from the University of Michigan a couple of years ago.
