NASA finds 'significant' water on moon. (2009, November 16). CNN. Retrieved November 17, 2009, from www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/11/13/water.moon.nasa/
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
NASA Finds 'Significant' Water On Moon
The Clean Energy Scam
Grunwald, M. (2008, March 27). The Clean Energy Scam . TIME. Retrieved November 15, 2009, from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975,00.html
It's been overshadowed lately by global warming, but the Amazon rain forest also happens to be an incomparable storehouse of carbon, the very carbon that heats up the planet when it's released into the atmosphere. "You can't protect it. There's too much money to be made tearing it down," says the author. "Out here on the frontier, you really see the market at work." This land rush is being accelerated by an unlikely source: biofuels. An explosion in demand for farm-grown fuels has raised global crop prices to record highs. This is making a dramatic expansion of Brazilian agriculture, which is invading the Amazon at an increasingly alarming rate. Propelled by mounting anxieties over soaring oil costs and climate change, biofuels have become the vanguard of the green-tech revolution, the trendy way for politicians and corporations to show they're serious about finding alternative sources of energy and in the process slowing global warming.
How Your Body Uses Your Energy During Hypothermia
Sones, B. (2007, December 13). Hypothermia Prompts Some To Undress . BNET . Retrieved November 7, 2009, from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20071213/ai_n21156071/
"Paradoxical undressing" is well known to mountain rescuers who in freezing weather will encounter sufferers of hypothermia who refuse warming blankets and may even have removed some of their clothing. 20 to 50 percent of deaths from hypothermia involve paradoxical undressing of some kind. One theory is that the fine blood vessels near the skin's surface contract to slow heat loss, then as contracting muscles become exhausted, blood rushes to the skin and causes a deep flush and sense of overheating. Now in the confusion of the moment, the victim disrobes to try to cool off.
Equally mysterious is "terminal burrowing," or "hide-and-die syndrome," seen also in certain cats and other species. When things get really bad we find somewhere to "curl up and die." One elderly man whose furnace had failed was discovered partly undressed and under overturned furniture, with bruises all over his hands. Police suspected foul play, but autopsy revealed hypothermia as the cause of death.
Oregon Volcanic ENERGY
Katski, D. (2009, September 10). Geothermal Energy Under Newberry Volcano, Oregon. Volcanology. Retrieved November 10, 2009, from http://volcanology.suite101.com/article.cfm/geothermal_energy_under_newberry_volcano_oregon
Located about 30 miles south of Bend, Oregon, USA. stands Newberry Volcano. Covering about 994 square miles in volume, it is one of the largest Quaternary shield volcanoes in the United States. In 1988 the USGS published a 10-year study evaluating Newberry geothermal potential. Out of twenty drill sites, nine were tested for hydrothermal alteration mineralogy. The final conclusion was that geothermal development would be viable in most areas, particularly within the caldera. The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), under their own study estimated energy output to be around 16,000 megawatts. Development however, never got off the ground as environmental groups successfully lobbied Congress in 1990 to designate Newberry as a national monument. For over twenty years exploration at Newberry has been dormant. As the demand for energy in Oregon has increased, the cry for a renewable energy source has also increased. In 2007 the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved the Newberry Geothermal Project for Davenport Power.
Stem Cells
Medew, J. (2009, November 7). Pioneer's Appeal On Stem Cells . The Age . Retrieved November 18, 2009, from www.theage.com.au/national/pioneers-appeal-on-stem-cells-20091117-iiib.html
Support for embryonic stem cell research has increase over the years. President Barack Obama lifted America's ban on government funding for embryonic stem cell research this year, a decision hailed by scientists as a new boost for stem cell research. Australia, however, isn't firm in stem cell research. Stem cell research helps with HIV/AIDS, cancer, diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. They apparently know it works; they just need to do it in an effective way on a large scale at a low cost.
YOUR SOUL
My Dad is a surgeon, so my whole life I have grown up hearing bazaar stories. Once, there was a woman who hit a moose with her car. The moose’s antler lodged itself into the woman’s brain. My father had to take out the antler. Every time my dad touched the antler, the women said she would see flashbacks of memories she didn’t even know she still had. Another time, a man was riding his snow machine at night when he came across a metal wire that almost sliced him in half. Every once in a while though, my dad will have to bring someone back to life who’s heart hasn’t beat for several minutes. During this time, the person is technically dead. My dad doesn’t tell me much about these stories. Sometimes people say they see a light. This is probably tunnel vision, just like when you faint. Other times, people come back to life and say they had a choice to go on or come back. Some say they see a rainbow. Who knows what really happens? Who knows if your soul and energy are depleted at this point or if it goes on? It’s something to wonder and dream about, but it’s nothing to dwell on. Our time is now. Our energy should be spent living on this earth and trying to do well. One day we will see what happens when our hearts stops beating.
The Energy Your Emotions Can Give
Here is a nice article on emotions Our emotions trigger something within us. If we feel strongly in something or truly believe in something, we will go through hoops and press through hard situations and have the energy that we normally wouldn’t if we weren’t so passionate about it. Being in the right mindset for different situations makes a big difference. For example, running is a big mental game. If I’m about to do a race and I have a negative mindset by thinking I’m not good enough, I’m not going to do as well. If I have a positive mindset and I believe that I will do well, I will do better.
Emotions control your thinking, behavior and actions. They affect your physical body as much as your body affects your feelings and thinking. People, who ignore, dismiss, repress their emotions, are setting them up for physical illness. Negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, negativity, frustration and depression cause chemical reactions in your body that are very different from the chemicals released when you feel positive emotions such as happiness, content, love, acceptance.
It takes a lot of energy to bury emotions and to keep them buried. There isn’t much energy left over for other activities when your energy is being used to keep stuffing these emotions back down. By nature, buried emotions want to come up so you can become aware of them, feel them and release them. You work very hard to keep them stuffed down. Dr. Maurice Elias says, “Emotions are human beings’ warning systems as to what is really going on around them. Emotions are our most reliable indicators of how things are going on in our lives. Emotions help keep us on the right track by making sure that we are led by more than the mental/ intellectual faculties of thought, perception, reason, and memory.”
