Earth from the space live

Our beautiful and only home for all of us -the mother Earth seen from the space live:

  http://m.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload

Photo credit: WikiImages

Useful websites for product safety and recall

Before buying new things many of us look for online reviews or ask friends about the certain product. The problem is that often we miss, a quite valuable info about the product safety and eventual recall.

Here are few places where you can get informed about the recent safety problems with many common items.  That info can be found in your local safety agency website, but in terms that many of the products are selling globally on amazon and ebay and sometimes not all safety criteria and updates are same, is good to look for information at few more sources.

US Consumer Product Safety Commission:

http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Recalls/

Health Canada:

http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca/recall-alert-rappel-avis/index-eng.php?utm_source=Facebook_HC&utm_medium=social&utm_content=recalls+tab_EN_main&utm_campaign=social_media_13

European Union - European Commission-Consumer safety:

http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/cons_safe/serv_safe/index_en.htm

http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/safety/rapex/index_en.htm

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission:

http://www.recalls.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/952401

Global:

http://globalrecalls.oecd.org/

Other useful websites:

http://www.recallowl.com/index.php

http://www.topix.com/news/product-recall

MedlinePlus: Trusted Health Information for You

Not everything on internet is true, that's true! Especially regarding human health: there's so much info written by people with no medical or biological education and experience. That leads to misinformation and often wrong decisions.  We like to ask other people on social media, forums and etc., and  sometimes  untruth would become truth, just because someone didn't check the original source of information.

This is a real problem and has very simple solution: 

"for medical questions ask your doctor, not "doctor" google!

Well, we all heard that many many times,  but sometimes we just want to find something extra, some more info that our doctor didn't have time to tell us about. In that case, check here: MedlinePlus: Trusted Health Information for You . 

It is supported by the National Institutes of Health. The largest bio-medical institute in the world so that's reliable enough.

Good source for reliable medical info are the government health care websites as well, because are written by doctors and scientists. 

Madame Curie Bioscience Database for free

Free bioscience articles for doctors, students and anyone interested in the field.

https://www.landesbioscience.com/curie/

Your stool has a "life"

 We have quite a "life" down there.

"The American Gut Project is a crowdfunded research project run by the lab of Rob Knight, Ph.D., of the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Knight, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist whose lab is part of the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado, launched the project with Jeff Leach, founder of the Human Food Project, which studies modern disease in the context of the ancient microbial world."

http://genengnews.com/insight-and-intelligence/american-gut-project-wants-your-stool/77899958/

FreeFullPDF.com - free scientific publications

FreeFullPDF.com is a website where you can find many scientific publications. It is useful for students or just curious people.

Are You Mindful? Tell the World - http://www.mindful.org

I am mindful. What about you?

"Mindfulness is available to us because we already have the capacity to be present, and it doesn’t require us to change who we are. It takes many shapes and goes by many names: attention, awareness, empathy, compassion, being in the zone, situational awareness, presence, flow, contemplation, and many more."

Are You Mindful? Tell the World!

Andre Fenton | Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers | PBS - How to meditate for a few minutes

Andre Fenton | Secret Life of Scientists & Engineers | PBS

A Secret History Of Women In Science, From Marie Curie To Florence Nightingale

“Extraordinary Women in Science & Medicine: Four Centuries of Achievement” runs until November 23, at the Ground Floor Gallery of the Grolier Club (47 E 60th St, New York, NY)

A Secret History Of Women In Science, From Marie Curie To Florence Nightingale

The in vitro burger is here and is good

The first in vitro burger is here. This new technology will save billions of dollars, will save billions of animals and save the planet by reducing the waste from meat industry (one of the biggest polluters nowadays). That's one of the most important discoveries, because from a cell of few you can feed a whole family and in terms that there is still hunger in the world, I hope that many non profit organizations will invest in the spreading of the technology and helping the poor nations. In vitro meat is useful for science experiments and that's quite important too, because will cut the cost ineffective  and cruel animal experiments.

The best advice for women from Einstein

I just found that quote from Einstein. Without knowing it I was following that advice all my life :).

What really is the Higgs Boson?

You probably know that not long time ago was discovered the "God particle" -  Higgs Boson and that is something very important. Here is a quite good and entertaining explanation, what really is. 

Cranberries - the fruits that might fight cancer

Fruits are good for to maintain a good health - that's a fact that everybody knows. We have all heard about many, more or less exotic fruits that have potential anticancer abilities, but who knew that a common and well known fruit as the cranberry would be "the miracle" anticancer fruit?! The studies are promising, so  just add cranberries to your diet and be healthier. They are quite tasty as well.

If you love to eat lemons, apples or red grapes, that's good because they also have shown a good anticancer potential.

http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/support/cranberries.shtml

A documentary that everyone must see

The way we use our home - the planet Earth and her other inhabitants now, is not leading to anything good. The documentary Earthlings shows one of the reasons why. It's not easy to watch, but the truth often is bitter.

"Alphabet" of life

 If you want to know what is the "alphabet" of  life then watch this video:

If you want to know more, check here:
http://www.nature.com/encode/about
http://www.nature.com/encode/#/threads

Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong

A courageous speech abut the charities and the way to make them more effective. 

"I know when you prohibit failure, you kill innovation.If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems."
"So the next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams, their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams, how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true regardless of what the overhead is. Who cares what the overhead is if these problems are actually getting solved? If we can have that kind of generosity, a generosity of thought, then the non-profit sector can play a massive role in changing the world for all those citizens most desperately in need of it to change."

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong.html

Dan Pallotta: Charity defender

Free classic literature - http://www.bartleby.com/

When I am looking for information in the internet, sometimes I would find hidden treasures like this website for free classic literature: http://www.bartleby.com. Most of the books here are difficult to find even in the libraries, which let's be honest many of us haven't visited in years.

"We call some books immortal! Do they live?  

If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure. 

          In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace."

 Bulwer-Lytton

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton,_1st_Baron_Lytton 

MIT OpenCourseWare - free education resources

“The idea is simple: to publish all of our course materials online and make them widely available to everyone.”

Dick K.P. Yue, Professor, MIT School of Engineering: 

http://ocw.mit.edu/about/

"I believe in evidence. I believe in observation..." Dr.Isaac Asimov

One of my favorite quotes by  Dr. Isaac Asimov

Animal abuse is abuse of humanity

"Brutalized societies, an indifferent majority of population, corrupt or egocentric politicians.Is this the Europe we want to live in?Are you part of those who want change? Or are you part of the indifferent majority?Are you David - or Goliath?The 'Making the Link' study demands the European Union to act on behalf of European animals, European children and European people."

http://www.occupyforanimals.org/

This is not only for the people living in Europe, this is for all of us that don't want to live in  a violent world. The following link is for a video which is not easy to watch, but that's the horrible ugly reality:

http://vimeo.com/57272564