Found this news item in NewsTarget.com, “Monsanto’s GM corn MON863 shows kidney, liver toxicity in animal studies.”
Here are the info’s we need to know:
A variety of genetically modified corn that was approved for human consumption in 2006 caused signs of liver and kidney toxicity as well as hormonal changes in rats in a study performed [...]
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Jesus may not have actually walked on water: he may have skated on an isolated, hard to see piece of ice, according to a study on the weather and water conditions in northern Israel in Jesus’ time.
Doron Nof, professor of Oceanography at Florida State University, and colleagues report in the April issue of the Journal of Paleolimnology (the study of prehistoric lakes), that a rare combination of water and atmospheric conditions in northern Israel could have led to the formation of “springs ice†on the surface of the Sea of Galilee, now known as Lake Kinneret.
Nof’s team examined the dynamics of a small section of Lake Kinneret comprising about 10,000 square feet near the salty springs that empty into it. Currently, ice may form there only once every thousand years.
Just like green tea’s EGCG compound, chlorogenic acid in green coffee helps the body break down fatty acids and produce calories. The sure win formula to losing weight. But don’t get too excited yet and rush out to drink cups of green coffee. You may, and will not like the taste.
The secret to coffee’s rich flavor and aroma is the way coffee beans are processed; by heating or roasting. The roasting process turns the coffee beans from green to dark brown even black. Unfortunately, this process destroys the chlorogenic acid in the coffee beans but it produces the brown aromatic Maillard reactants which gives us the rich and aromatic flavor of coffee. Green coffee on the other hand, tastes bitter and has no aroma. Who would want to drink that kind of coffee right?
The slimming promise of green coffee is not totally lost; extracts from green coffee could be used as food supplements for weight loss diets or programs.
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Still, that word rings in my mind: organize.
For this I was contemplating on getting my own organizer, not a PDA which would cost me a semester’s tuition, but rather a simple good ‘ol fashion paper notebook. Speaking of which, I can’t wait for the moleskine notebooks I’ve ordered to arrive. And that’s what keeping me from rushing out to get a personal organizer. 
What a joy it would be to organize my current life with a moleskine notebook? Wee! I’m just so excited. However, have you ever wondered how life itself is organized? “Not exactly a soup question is it?†As Sean Connery once said in the great film, “Finding Forrester.â€
I mean with Pluto no longer a regular planet, do I have to change something about my lifestyle of least my everyday routines? I think not, do you?
I told my friend of this little question of mine and he told me that it was unlike me, it was unscientific for me as a Bio student and a science geek to ask this question. Am I wrong? I asked him the same question, “Will Pluto’s demotion affect your life?†He just stood still and shrugged his shoulders. For once, I’m not trying to be a geek, I’m just being practical.
Just the same, some one please tell me if I’m wrong to think like this and ask such questions.
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Come to think of it, isn’t true that you’re barely using the full capacity of your computer’s horsepower? You conduct a performance test only to find out that the fraction of your computer’s full capacity and capabilities that you use on your average e-life could be delivered by an another computer costing less than what’s on the price tag of your machine?
Simply put, you’re not using your computer to its full capacity, hence its full monetary value. That’s your hard earned-money idling away inside a metal box with a lease to be on the “latest model†shelf for barely three years.
Worry not too much. For there is hope in turning this investment into something worth every centavo you’ve sweated and toiled over for it.
The Earth is devastated by an all out world-wide nuclear war. Only ten people survive and must hide in an underground tunner to survive and restore mother earth in the future. Problem is, the tunnel can only accomodate 9 people so one must be eliminated from the list of 10 survivors below:
34 yr-old Priest
65 yr-old old man
27 yr-old pregnant woman
12 yr-old female student
22 yr-old female artist (painter/musician)
32 yr-old male scientist
34 yr-old athlete
37 yr-old sumo wrestler
18 yr-old ballet dancer
60 yr-old carpenter
Who will you choose? Why?
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So, is the greenhouse effect bad? If there’s too much of its effect, like what we’re experiencing now then it is bad. Extreme examples of this can be found in the planet Venus wherein the it suffocates from its own atmosphere of greemhouse gases like carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and others. Of course when the opposite happens, our planet will be too cold life as we know it would find it very very hard to thrive and flourish.
Now on to ozone depletion. We all know that up in our atmosphere, is a layer of gases the provide us with an extra yet very important protection from the harmful radiation from the sun and space, it’s the ozone layer. Ozone in the earth’s stratosphere is created by ultraviolet light striking oxygen molecules containing two oxygen atoms (O2), splitting them into individual oxygen atoms (atomic oxygen); the atomic oxygen then combines with unbroken O2 to create ozone, O3.
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So what does it all mean? How it will affect us? This is what I meant by ‘like watching those doomsday or end-of-the-world programs or movies.’ Our present generations have never acutally experienced a flipping of the earths’s magnetic field. It happens every thousands of years and when it does, something weird and nearly catastrophic happens.
Aside from ending the summer beach parties, animals who rely on the magnetic field for finding their way around the planet would be cofused or lost or go berserk. Worldwide power blockouts would occur because before a flip, the magnetic field weakens and disappears for a moment and so power grids would be affected by the incoming radiation from space. All of these are just predictions and experts say it may not lead to total catastrophe and chaos but we will be affected by the flip one way or another. It is also comforting to know that a complete flip would take 2,000 years and by that time, we would be prepared for any consequences…hopefully and if calculations are correct.
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