No More Prejudice!

God loves everyone. I think “everyone” must include anyone with different race, religion, background… But admittedly, in our daily life, there are still commonly more or less prejudices rooted from different reasons everywhere.

According to “Queen to Sign Equal Rights Charter”, the Queen would sign a 16-point document which was in purpose of eliminating discrimination, such as those rooted in gender, race, religion. And the document covers democracy, rule of law, international security and freedom of expression.

This news reminds me that prejudice about sexual orientation in China, which as important as gender, still exists in our life. Denise Ho, the first mainstream female Hong Kong pop star came out of the closet publicly in HK gay pride last November. She stated that there was still discrimination and prejudice and decided to stand out for something. That was one of the biggest entertainment news in Hong Kong last year.

Actually, homosexuality was deleted from the Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders quite a few years ago. In first tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, people tend to be respectful to a gay or lesbian. That’s because people there are more open minded as they have received more information about homosexuality. Whereas, in smaller cities in China, many gay men are forced to marry women by the pressure from family and society. Traditional Chinese believe that “there are three ways to be unfilial, the worst is to not produce offspring”. As a consequence, Chinese gays/lesbians still face some prejudice. But in terms of religion, maybe Chinese gays/lesbians are luckier than those in religious countries.

On the other hand, due to the lack of common sense about the channels for sexually transmitted disease(STD), some Chinese people consider gays/lesbians equal to suspected STD patients. As a result, in career or daily life, some gays/lesbians don’t want other people know their sex orientation status so as to avoid any trouble caused by it.

What should we do to eliminate the discrimination of sex orientation? This is a vital issue as more and more gays/lesbians “emerge” in China nowadays. Actually, some people in China such as parents of “homo” have endeavored to tell people that “homo” is natural and cannot be adjusted by any method and persuade people to accept this group as a normal one. But this sound is still very weak in this country. I think more and more gays/lesbians standing up for equality of sexual orientation is the only way to eliminate the prejudice of homosexuality.

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Reference

Queen to sign equal rights charter. BBC News UK (2013, March 10) Retrieved March 10,2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21732545

Where Is the Nobility?

When I was much younger, I used to think that the native inhabitants of Australia, who were pushed out by my European ancestors, were largely peaceful people living in harmony with nature. I suspect this view is common among some groups today. But is it right?

In "An Anthropologist’s War Stories", Nicholas Wade reviews the recently published Noble Savages by anthropologist Napoleon A. Chagnon, in which Chagnon relates both his painstaking discovery of the sex that is at the heart of the traditionally violent Yanomamö tribes of the Amazon and his battles to correct well-established opinions amongst his fellow anthropologists, who proved most unwilling to admit those facts and their explanation.

I've been waiting to write this blog post for a couple of weeks. As you can see from the reference citation below, my source was published in The New York Times almost three weeks ago, which is a bit beyond the limitation I've imposed on you that your BBC News source be published within the last seven days. But because it's so close to the essay we've been working on, I didn't want to share my responses, so couldn't really write this. But your final revisions are in now and the final corrections are being made, so I need not wait any longer.

Although I have long ago given up the cute but dangerously false notion that primitive peoples were less violent, bloody and generally less vicious than more developed civilisations, Chagnon's latest book presumably details the solid evidence that shows my former belief to be false. It reminds of a similar belief I first had when I arrived in Thailand: I thought that Thai society was more peaceful, less violent, than my own Western society. I was a bit surprised to find, on checking, that the facts just don't support this belief. The murder and violent crime statistics clearly show that Thai culture and society is more violent even than the US, and that is much more violent than Australia. So much for my nice beliefs untested by checking against the relevant evidence. In fact, Thailand, like many other countries, is becoming less violent as it becomes more Western in culture, as the falling violence statistics reflect.

I've already bought and started reading Chagnon's book, not only for the mass of evidence that gives us a more accurate view of reality, nor only for the value of his explanation of how sex is at the bottom of much of it (not so surprising, really - I think that the simpler and less developed a culture or society, the greater the role that sex competition between men for available women must play. I'm hoping that Chagnon will provide more solid evidence). No, I am also deeply interested in Chagnon's battles with the prevailing ideology based, rather than fact based, false beliefs of the American Anthropological Association. In fact, I think that many anthropologists, and others in the social sciences, and far too many teachers, cling for very bad reasons to another dangerously false notion: the idea that all cultures are of equal value and that moral right and wrong is determined by culture, so that if a culture accepts something it must be right. This moral relativism is false, and worse, it is immoral because it actively supports the continuation of great evil as dictators and despots of all sorts use it as an excuse to refuse to listen to the moral arguments of their opponents, labelling them as "foreign", which merely adds dishonesty and deliberate ignorance to their list of evils. Some leaders might argue, for example, that their society accepts that women are inferior to men and must be locked away at home: the anthropological understanding of this way of thinking is certainly important, but that only means we can understand their ideas, it does not and cannot make it right. If such a view were correct, then every evil would be OK if people believed it: slavery would be a good thing, for example, as it was practised by almost every culture over thousands of years, and they were all wrong to do that. The slave owners and condoners were all acting immorally, however understandable their actions and beliefs might have been.

Oddly, amongst the most likely experts, this warped notion of what makes something moral or not, philosophers who study ethics and moral philosophy, such a view is not the consensus, it is among highly intelligent and very well educated people in other fields that this moral relativism, that all cultures are equal, is popular, although I think, I hope, it is rapidly dying out as the toxic influence of Marxism also washes away.

And the Dogon? I think the sooner their old traditions die out the better. They should certainly be preserved, but only in museums and books, along with the record of human slavery, religious crusades, blasphemy laws, suppression of free speech to protect elites, anti-gay laws and social sanctions, the treatment of women as inferior creatures owned and controlled by men, and many other ugly traditions that our ancestors passed down for far too long. Progress is much better than staying the same, and if sustainable means "staying the same", then sustainability is also a bad thing.

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Reference

Wade, N. (2013, February 18). An Anthropologist’s War Stories. The New York Times. Retrieved March 10, 2013 from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/science/napoleon-chagnons-war-stories-in-the-amazon-and-at-home.html?_r=0

We are near, but too far for you to measure.

Since Galileo's first sky observation by telescope, we have learned many things hidden in the universe.

We learned that comets come from Oort's cloud. We could tell the exact number of galaxies in our group. We predicted the number of clusters in the universe. We even measured the limit of observable universe.

We have learned things lying at the edge of the universe, but we have not learned so much about something nearer, even the distance to our nearby galaxy is still not exactly known.

According to Jonathan Amos in "Key Galaxy Distance Re-measured", Grzegorz Pietrzynski from the Universidad de Concepción, Chile and his colleagues studied binary stars in Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Galaxy and managed to determine the distance of the galaxy,which plays the crucial role in astronomical study, to be 163,000 light-years. 

The number is critically important owing to its use as a calibration to study stellar properties, matter distribution and especially to find Hubble's constant. Edwin Hubble found that a galaxy moves with a velocity proportioning to its distance, and Hubble's constant is non-negligible here.

By determining if there is any change in a value of Hubble's constant, we are able to find an evolution of the universe - static , forever expandable or collapsing universe.

However, to do so is not as easy as it sounds, due to its difficulty in measuring distances of faraway galaxies.

There are some useful methods to do that. For example, the method of standard candle which we assume that any supernova happening in any galaxy has a certain real luminosity, but its apparent luminosity will be much less because of extinction caused by interstellar matter. We measure the distance of LMC to build an extinction curve and finally be able to find the non-linear relation between an apparent magnitude of a supernova exploding in one galaxy and its distance, then, surely, we can actualize the model of our universe.

We also use LMC as a calibrator in other methods as well because it is a nearby galaxy and an effect on stellar extinction is small comparing to further galaxies. It is undeniable that its distance is very important for modern astronomical research.

I hope that this project will be completely expanded soon. And I also hope that "an ultra-precise map of more than a billion stars in and near the Milky Way" will be beyond our reach in only next few years.

Who knows, maybe next ten years kids will have their universe maps in their study room.

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Reference

Amos, J. (2013, March 8). Key galaxy distance re-measured. BBC News Magazine.
Retrieved March 10, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21692346

Salt Intake harms Immune System in Human's Bodies

Salt Intake harms Immune System in Human's Bodies

Salt has been used long before the history. Salt was highly valued and its production was legally restricted in ancient times, so it was historically used as a method of trade and currency.(History of Ancient Salt, 2013, P2) However, there is a today research that salt may cause the autoimmune disease.

According to James Gallagher, writing in "Salt Linked to Immune Rebellion in Study", consuming salt could effect the immune system to revolt against our own bodies.

Salt was introduced to use as a food preservative for a long time and also preserve Egyptian mummies.
It is an important ingredient in many kinds of food in many countries; for example, we use salt in meat fermentation for steak. We normally see salt on the table in a restaurant as a food seasoning, so it is a globally common ingredient. It is an essential element in the diet of not only humans but of animals, and even of many plants (History of Ancient Salt, 2013, P4). Some people like the taste of salt which is salty, so they will add on salt in every dish they eat regardless of the amount of salt using among the food process. In a stark mark, a large number of salt intake are dangerous to human's health since it is one of the factors which leads to high blood pressure and many diseases. For example, kidney's disorder is also the result of consuming a high number of salt. The initial symptom of this is having a backache and having a prolem in urinary system. In addition, salt also causes to diseases such as Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

Not only food consumption affects to people's health, people's habbits are also the main factor that causes  fatal diseases. Smoking and alchohol drinking leads to many diseases such as gastritis, diabetes, hepatitis and so on. Nowadays, people's lifestyle have completely changed from the past, especially big-city citizens. They have to rush around to earn their livings, so they often neglect to their health. They eat fast food which contains excess calories and high sodium which is salt component. Moreover, they work in the stress circumstance and cannot manage to find time for excercising. These are the factor that accelerate incurable diseases. Fortunately, the health of my family members is the thing that my mother most concern about, so she tries to cook by herself as much as she can by using organic elements. My mother always control the amount of ingredients when cooking at home, so we use only a little amount of salt in homemade food. Apart from healthy diet, she encourages us to work out regularly. In the weekend, my mother and I enjoy jogging together,while my dad and my younger brother enjoy golfing.

It is a new reseach which has not completely testified. However, taking care of both physical and metal health are the essential thing that people should concern about. Why don't we reduce salt for a better life?

Reference
History of Ancient Salt. Green Living Center. Retrieved March 10,2013  http://thegreenlivingcenter.com/node/134

Gallagher, J.(2013, March 7). Salt linked to immune rebellion in study. BBC News Health. Retrieved March 8,2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21685022

Have you finished?

Nowadays, there are a lot of people express their concern over every single thing whether it is utilized to fullest. Also, food is not an exception.

According to Celia Hatton in “Operation Empty Plate: China's food Waste Campaigner”, there is a guy sharing photo of his empty dish on Chinese social media in order to raise people’s awareness of food.

I think it is a good idea to do so. If there was just a campaign encourage people to concern how much food they dispose each day, the campaign might not receive the response which contribute to an unchanged situation. However, sharing photo via the social media may easily stimulate people to follow the new trend leader as “Action speaks louder than words.” Also, it can trigger a vast majority people around the world.

In the last couple decades, people have been concerning about the world's environment owing to the global warming. There are a lot of campaigns launched in order to save our environment. For example, there are environmental friendly products such as glasses, plates, and forks that are made from cassava not plastic as they were. This is because those products are biodegradable and they do not cause the increase in number of waste. Moreover, there is a widely accepted campaign so-called "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." This campaign encourages people to rethink before dispose their stuff. However, the 3R campaign cannot be applied in some situations such as food since we cannot reuse or recycle the ingredients. This topic reminds me of the recent news which reported that some restaurants in China reused its ingredients such as chili. In that video, the Chinese chef picked the chili from the trash bin. I think that reuse is not appropriate in this situation. Not only did the food cooked from the reused chili was contaminated, but also it reflected the lack of integrity in the chef or may be the restaurant as well. Even though, the restaurant and chef wanted to keep the cost down, they should not have done this. They should have served food concerning their customer’s health rather than only the profit. Also, the customer is the person who absorbs both direct and indirect costs of his or her dish by paying the bill.

One more thing that comes up to my mind is that now there is a popular trend of shooting and sharing the pictures of one's diet. Sometimes people spend too much time to do those activities before they start their dishes. As a result, the taste of food may change and be unpleasant at the time they start because some food is best served hot. This hypothetical may be the cause why the customers left their food half-finished. I heard that there are some restaurants in the U.S. prohibit cameras and smart phones from being brought inside. The rationale of doing so is the restaurant wants its customers to enjoy their meals by tasting them.

Also, I think that as the portion of some dishes are bigger than what people usually have in their normal meal. That's also the reason why the customers did not finish their dishes and led to the waste problem. One good idea to solve this problem is that the restaurant allows its customers to customize their dishes by choosing to reduce some ingredients of their dishes such as rice.

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Reference

Hatton, C. (2013, March 9). Operation Empty Plate: China's food waste campaigner. BBC News China. Retrieved March 10, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21711928

An unforgetable year ever in Argentina

When I was younger, my dream was being an exchange student at some strang place which barely everyone knows or visits that country. At age 16, I had chance to decide weather I should go to exchange abroad and my decision was "YES" because I wanted to gain unique experience like no one would never have it before. As I read on BBC news website, I found the article about Argentina which is a country that I went for exchange and it was very interesting as well.

According to "Argentina profile", it is located in south america and its terrian is includes part of the Andes mountain range, swamps, The plains of the Pampus and a long coastline. Argentina is rich in resources, is one south america's largest economies and has many attractive places to visit.

When I read it for the first time,it reminded me about my unforgetable year ever in my life which was being an exchange student when I was in high school. I went to Argentina that they speak Spanish as their mother language. In the beginning of that year, it was such a really tough time because I had to adapt almost everything such as my lifestyle, the way to talk, learning spanish, and finding some more friends. It may called "Culture shock" but when that time gone by, I felt like I did love Argentina as my another hometown. Argentinian was very kind and friendly that part made me feel less nervous about getting to know new people. In addition, Speaking spanish was once my most fluently language because I spoke it everyday and that made me hardly to speak Thai or English.

Travelling was my favorite part in Argentina. I do travelled a lot including Iguazu which is a waterfall in the north of Argentina, Buenos Aires which is the capital in that country, its style is look like european style but seems a bit difference and chaos like Bangkok as well, Tucuman where my lovely friend lived and Mendoza where is located on the west side of Argentina that is very near the Andes mountain. My most favorite travelling was Iguazo that I went to all of my AFS friends including all Thai students which stayed in other parts of this country so that I can speak Thai for my first time like everyday, it was really funny becuase we all that time used to speaking Spanish and sometimes when we spoke, it's like Thai and Spanish mixed together and the most important part of this trip, at least we could share our story to others exchange student when we were there.

One year in Argentina taught me a lot. It made me grow up as well and know how to take care of myslef and being a good person. It shaped me up how to adapt with such a different eviroment. Yes, it takes time to get in to it but once you used to it and you will learn it as a part of your life. As this quote said "The experience is what you get when you don't get what you want"

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Reference

Argentina profile. BBC news Latin america. Retrieved March 09,2013 from                      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18707514

How Much Do You Fancy Breakfast?

It is considered that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Due to modern lifestyle, breakfast seems to be less important than in the past. Some people, including me, habitually do have breakfast in the morning. I spotted “Does skipping breakfast make you put on weight?” on BBC website and did not hesitate to read more about it because I think that it is somehow related to my eating habit.

According to Claudia Hammond, writing in “Does Skipping Breakfast Make You Put on Weight?”, there are the great number of studies about the connection between weight gaining and skipping breakfast. Some suggested that going though the day without having breakfast can't help controlling weight; whereas others found contradiction with strong evidences on both sides.

When I was young, my mom always prepared breakfast for me in every single morning and forced me to have it before going to school. Teachers normally teach students not to skip their breakfast since nutrients derived from breakfast are energy that we use in our daily tasks. I used to be one of those kids who feel dizzy after having breakfast before school. Yet as a kid, I did follow my mom’s request and have continued to have breakfast until nowadays.

To be honest, I don’t like it that much since I feel the absence of hunger and don’t want to eat anything in such an early morning. Keep having breakfast all my life, I’ve grown up without any problem with my weight, but does breakfast matter has any effects on this? After I re-read this article, I came up with no substantial conclusion. I consider the studies might be right but maybe they are not.

What breakfast means to you and what is your typical breakfast consist of? For me, either a carton of milk or a cup of coffee seems to be a perfect morning meal for me. It is a good way to kick start my day; however, I’m still not sure that drinking them is counted as breakfast.

Recently, one of my friends shared her breakfast photo collections on Facebook. There are loads of photos of her breakfast and cooking process. Sandwich, omelet, toast, to illustrate, are her general menus. Not only do they look tasty, but also pleasantly arranged on the plate. I confessed to her that I’m extremely hungry every time I see them. Thanks to her striking photography skills, it fairly grasps our friends’ interest as I assumed on the number of likes and comments.

What surprised me is that she bought many breakfast cookbooks for practicing. Then, I figured it out how much she enjoys having morning meals and doing it seriously. She loves creating her own breakfast recipes and looks more than happy to share her special recipes.  Also, she is my lovely chubby friend though.

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Reference

Hammond, C. (2013, March 5). Does skipping breakfast make you put on weight?, BBC News Future. Retrieved March 8, 2013 from http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130304-skip-breakfast-pile-on-weight/1

The Baby, The Hope

There are more than 30 million people around the world have died of AIDS-related diseases. In 2010, 2.7 million people were newly infected with HIV, and 1.8 million men, women and children died of AIDS-related causes, 34 million people around the world are now living with HIV. In most parts of the world we have seen a reduction in new HIV infections among young people, latest data show that a 50% reduction in the rate of new HIV infections (HIV incidence) has been achieved in 25 low- and middle-income countries between 2001 and 2011.

According to "US HIV Baby 'Cured' by Early Drug Treatment", a baby girl has been cured of HIV in the US, the baby has been cured after very early treatment with standard drug therapy. Many doctors in six different laboratories all applied different, very sophisticated tests trying to find HIV in this infant and nobody was able to find any.

I love movies, no matter how does it end happily or not. The movie I would like to talk about is a scene from the Spike Lee-directed segment about children living with HIV/AIDS from the film which is supporting by the UNICEF. Lee’s segment, entitled ‘Jesus Children of America’, is about a Brooklyn teenager with drug-addicted parents who discovers she is HIV-positive. She is suffering the dilemma of her family who try to cover up the condition and a standpoint of her life. In the end of this film, she finally accepted and must carrying a HIV-positive label all her life and try to start a new life. The moral dilemma is always in the central issue of a movie, it can inspired me in the moment and thinking that what will I do if I was in the situation. In this case, I want talk about HIV/AIDS babies. Past few decades, people believes HIV/AIDS can not be cured. Some discriminate against them, others think about it's a hopeless case. Ignorant makes panic, guiltless makes bleeds, helpless makes suffering. Even though it is hopeless but it's not a plague, it only occurs in specific routes of infection. HIV is transmitted primarily via unprotected sexual intercourse, contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles, and from mother to child during pregnancy, delivery, or breastfeeding. I do believe a life start out good, innocent and full of potential. An innocent HIV baby take no mistakes but will suffering from public and must endure others unusual judgment since diagnosis of HIV-positive.

There are more sad stories in Africa. It said 84% of the world's deaths from AIDS happened in Africa. There are 13.7 million Africans have died of AIDS. The social costs of AIDS in Africa is terrible and coverage causing serious problems. Meanwhile, I think there are lots of people talking about the problem of HIV/AIDS in Africa, but does not give resources to those exact place to whom is needed. Also, the African are still in the struggle if the government is lack of money and the drug companies charge too much money for it. Many of victims are children, mostly occurs while mother-to-child transmission. If the baby girl from the BBC News still ongoing follow-up the research and totally cured in the long run which means the treatment can also affects for other babies born in with HIV. It will be a really huge change and an opportunity for those babies who born in with HIV. We can decrease the social costs shifted to other issues we are also worry about. The most important is they can avoiding a lifetime of medication, a different way of thinking, more cherish their own life, and a hopeful future.

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Reference

Dollarhide M.(2012, May 26) UNICEF supports ‘All the Invisible Children’. UNICEF Retrieved March 7,2013 from http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/usa_28192.html

Global HIV and AIDS estimates,2009 and 2010. AVERTing HIV and AIDS (2011) Retrieved March 7,2013 from http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm

US HIV baby 'cured' by early drug treatment. BBC News Health (2013, March 4) Retrieved March 7,2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21651225 

Theoretical or Useful Animal Conservation

Nowadays, most people are inattentive in environment and other inhabitants in the world. Many wildlife animals are seriously threatened by hunters who use organs of animals in some purposes, such as collecting, making tonics, and trade.

According to Matt McGrath, writing in "Thailand's Promise to End Ivory Trade Cautiously Welcomed", ivory taken from Thai and African elephant is protected as soon as possible by the commitment form Miss Yingluck Shinawatra, prime minister of Thailand. However, many experts still wonder that this latest commitment can be used effectively to elephants and other endangered species or it will be only a theory.

According to history of Thailand, elephants are respective animals and great symbols of Thailand. Because of their size and gesture, many Thai ancestors relied on them in important situations, such as Thai-Burmese Wars, mysterious rites in Brahmanism, and international trade. For me, However, there are not only elephants in Thai forest, but other important species are found in the forest too. Schomburgk's deer, brow-antlered deer, tapir, and marbled cat are the example of preserved wildlife animals. However, these animals are threatened from hunters who need some parts of animals' body for trade and medicine.

Why did these animals are threatened? How do we can help to save their life? I think these two example questions are the basic questions that everyone should ask themselves. The probably answers for the first question is that they are hunted because people need some their organs for being collected in houses or offices, making energizing medicine, and hunting as a game. Nonetheless, many conservationists force the government to legislate the strict laws for animal conservation. For my country, Thailand, there are a lot of restrictions to not allow hunters for hunting wildlife animals. For instance, hunters cannot hunt in national parks, non-hunting areas, and open zoo, people who violate the law are imprisoned 4 years and fined less than 40000 Baht. In my perspective, many hunters still hunt and neglect the restriction, if they can sell the wildlife product to capitalist, they actually receive a lot of reward and they think the punishment is used to scare only, not used to punish.

From the news and McGrath's opinion, I feel grad and pleasure for legistration to ban ivory trade. This is quite significant problem that is neglected for long time. The government by Ms. Yingluck Shinawatra announces to legislate the rules to ban ivory from domesticated and African elephants. These is a big changing occasion to start legislating the act of legislation for other important endangered species. However, many international environmentalists and conservationists do not exactly believe that this restriction is effective enough or usable, since the legislation is unclear and more theoritical. For me, I believe it is the first step to persuate people to concentrate more on animal conservation and to look after the living wildlife animals.

Reference

McGrath, M. (2013, March 3). Thailand's promise to end ivory trade cautiously welcomed. BBC News Science & Environment. Retrieved March 8, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21646863

Pay for their intention

I rapidly think about the reason why Microsoft has to pay for this charge which it might be caused by accidental  technical error and my second through for this news is that the technical error might be occurred by their intention for banning other web browsers.

According to "Microsoft fined by European Commission over web browser" article, Microsoft company has been fined 561m euros ($731m; £484m) for missing promote other's web browser bands in its product for 14 months.

From my experience which I used to study software development subject in my university before, I decided to believe that this technical error was intended to protect its web browser software proportion  and discriminate other's web browsers because of the process of software development and their profession. 

Microsoft company is a gigantic software developing company in the world and the company can generate its revenue approximately $7.4bn in last year. I surely that they complied many standards of software development such as CMMi  and they can hire thousands professional programmers and developers to do their professional works . Thus, it must have process of software development. 

In process of software development, any change that developers did in their update path usually has been tested for many times since they finished codding part. The test could take many days or it might be months before the developer will release it because they have to ensure that the new update path will not do any damage or change other thing which the developer did not intend to change it.

Therefore, I concluded that they intended to do this mistake in order to eliminate their competitors in web browser software market.

Moreover, I found that the update software paths which are usually improved many benefits and abilities in many software have sometime caused new problems, for example, Chrome browser application in App store. Last week, I found the new software update for Chrome browser application in App store which it was promoted in its application to notify their user for updating its software. After I decided to update it, the web browser failed to start itself when I push its icon on my iPad device. The result of this, I had used other web browser for a couple day after it failed to start the program. Yesterday, I found the way to fix it  and I fixed it  by myself. The cause of this problem  was announced by Google Developing team  and they will fix this problem in their next update path which none knows when it will come.

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Reference

Microsoft fined by European Commission over web browser. (2013, March 6) BBC News Technology Retrieved March 8, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21684329

Delicious but "Early Death Link"

Processed meats seem to be dangerous for us, driving us to an early graveyard with bowel cancer and heart problems.

According to a research, which was wrote in BMC Medicine, salt and chemicals used to preserve the meal may damage health. Moreover, one of the team who work in World Cancer Research Dr. Rachel Thompson said “ our research, publish in 2007 and subsequently confirm in 2011, shows strong evident that eating processed meat, such as bacon, ham, hot dogs, salami and some sausages, increase the risk getting bowel cancer.”

“You are what you eat.” This seems to be true for me since eating habits really influence to our health. In the a fast-pace society, Bangkok, for example, people tend to have fast food to reduce their meal time and gain time to work. The trend of food has been changed from traditional food which is very healthy, combining big amount of vegetable and low-fat meal, to hamburger, hotdogs, pizza and fried chicken. The exotic fast food restaurants like KFC and Macdonald are abundant and becoming popular for local people. The consequence is that many people are now suffering from diseases, which are never discovered in the past such as cancer. To me, it’s interesting that among the better quality of life of human from technology, people can’t really not increase their average life expectancy as the food they eat is more and more artificial.  

However, I cannot ague that fast food like hotdogs is really convenient and delicious. It not only can be kept for a long time, but also it is easy to adapt to many kinds of food such as pizza, burger, fried rice or event noodle. Combined with a lot of oil and some of special ingredients, hotdogs are soft and testy for most people. Besides, According to Prof Sabine Rohrmann, from the University of Zurich, “High meat consumption, especially processed meat, is associated with less healthy lifestyle.” This means we cannot just blame processed meat that it is the 100% cause of diseases.

Finally, I think consumers like us are the people who have to decide whether we want to stay healthy by avoiding a yummy meal or we just get it and see what will happen.

Gallagher, J (2013, March 7). Processed meat ‘early death’ link. BBC News health and science. Retrieved March 7, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21682779

Eat More Processed Meat: Cause of Die Young

Eat More Processed Meat: Cause of Die Young

Nowsdays eating processed meat such as suasages,ham,bacon or porkball is very common found almost everywhere including Thailand.Young people prefer eating fast food because of their lifestyle without any health concern that if they eat regalary, it might lead to health problems.

According to James Gallagher writhig in "Processed Meat 'Early Death' Link", high processed meat and preserve red meat appear the risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease and early death which found by a study of half a million people across Europe. The main cause of health damage comes from there are contain preservative, salt, or other chemical(2013).

Apart from Gallagher's article, They have an evidence to show that eating a lot of processed meat such as bacons, sausages, ham are likely a cause of many diseases; for example, colon cancer, and heart disease so it leads to die young because most of these food use both salt and presservative. I agree with this article because these food are contain a bit fiber but rich in salt with leads to damage consumer health. Although, they seem are cause of above disease, most of them would happen with people who eating too much and long time also there are other many serious risk factors involved such as genetic, smoke habbit, or stress coping as well.





What is red and processed meat?

In case of people who eat less fiber for long time seem increase colon cancer rate which is often found in health magazine that I read before and is found in this article as well. In addition, Thai young people likely to face with obesity problem more and more everyday because they like eating fast food becuase it is very convenience and can find almost every corner of the street. Most of them have these food as well.Unfortunately I think in Thailand they not concern or do not publish any research about the serious effect of processed food to health condition. Moreover, they are plenty of advertising to persuade young people to buy this food in televation, internet or even on the sky train station. I think when they eat instant food including suasages,ham or becon for long time without do any work out propery it seems tend to high cholesterol in their blood so they risk to get cardiovasular disease such as heart attack which is one cause of death early.

Reference
Gallagher, J.(2013,March7).Processed meat 'early death' link. BBC News Health.Retrieved March7,2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21682779

Sleep less, More disease

We spend time one-third everyday to sleep, but it isn't waste of our time at all. People need to sleep, and while you are sleeping, your body system is working and repairing itself.

According to "Poor Sleep Linked to Heart Failure, Norwegian Study Says", substandard sleep can lead to heart severe failure, because your heart is too weak to work and pump blood around the body with the right pressure. The linked between poor sleep and heart failure is unclear, however, smoking, obesity, diabetes, other disease, and bad habit could pulling the trigger to sleepless.

I heard about sleep linked to heart disease for a long time. However, it isn't familiar to me because I always sleep at least 7-9 hours a day. I have known that the lack of sleep can make your health unhealthy and your body system doesn't work very well. For instance, less sleep can tend to eat more. I experienced this theory many times when I had a few hours sleep, I ate more in following day. I don't know why, but I found out in many health magazine, health gurus talking this thing also, sleep and eat. It also make people gain their weight. I read a magazine, they said that body has a health repair clock system. Every part of our body work on the exact time, for instance, large intestine (or colon) is working around 5am-7am, stomach is working around 7am-9am, spleen is working around 9am-11am. If you didn't rest enough, your body system might not work or work with ineffective.

The progress of technology these day making people gradually changing their lifestyle. Before going to bed they always involve with computer, mobile phone, the Internet, laptop, and tablet. This convenient items tend to causing the effect for user one way or another. My friend had a car crash because she's texting to someone, fortunately, she didn't get hurt or any pain, except the panic. I also found on the Internet that the electronic signal can disturb your sleep and make your sleep low quality.

One way to get rid of insomnia which is quite work for me is doing yoga. Slow motion of posing the yoga poses make you sleepy. While you do yoga, yogi always turn on the nature sound or relaxing sound. It's make you feel sleepier.

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Reference
Mundasad, S. (2013, March 6). Poor sleep linked to heart failure, Norwegian study says. BBC News Health. Retrieved March 7, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21667943 

Perspectives on Human Wonder

"Ref Practice" was a very boring title for a post, and having written both reference citations and the first summary, I thought I should try to combine them into a proper blog post. This is that attempt.

According to Gerry Hadden in "The Church Dome Painted by Graffiti Artists", a priest in Spain has had a graffiti artist adorn the main dome of his largely austere church in bold colours with a modern take on Romanesque Christian art (2013).

Meanwhile, "First glimpse of a black hole's spin"  (2013) reports that scientists using x-ray telescopes in space have acquired data that has enabled them to calculate the angular momentum of a super-massive black hole with an edge velocity approaching the speed of light, at the centre of a galaxy, which measurement gives clues about the formation of the galaxy itself.

Post-Enlightenment
Christian art from Spain.

As I was thinking about what these very different stories from the BBC News a week ago might have in common, it occurred to me that in their very different ways, both testify to the wondrously varied brilliance of human beings: one in the field of art and anthropology, and the other in our exponentially deepening understanding of the universe in which we live. I have admit that I think the new artwork in the church by Spanish graffiti artist House, whose real name is Raul Sanchez Araque, is rather more alive and cheerful looking than the very stilted, stereotyped and lifeless look of much Romanesque art. It always seemed to me that the art of that dark period of Western history, when the democratic and critical ideals of Greece and Rome had been eclipsed by the more primitive, superstitious beliefs of the despotic Eastern religions of Christianity, and later Islam, which brought in their immoral command types of moral thinking from the Bible and the Qur'an. The modern day interpreters from liberal and democratic Spain, reclaimed from both the Christians and the Moslems, looks great. I'm glad that the priest in charge of the church, Father Ramon Borr, had the good sense not to be bound by tradition but to try something new. It's a great success. If only the Catholic Church had more like him, it might be a much better organization, but this decent priest is unlikely to be elected the new pope.

NGC 1365 - 56 million light years away

And it was the Renaissance, when artists like da Vinci threw off the lifeless works of the dark Mediaeval age and returned to classical Greek models, that marked both the end of the Christian strangle-hold on Europe and the return to the classical Western ideals of Greece in thinking, society and politics that made possible the Enlightenment, which began the modern spurt of science, of reason and of democracy in the West. So far, that spurt has not been stamped out by censoring despots who hate free speech and reason. Indeed, as the increasing spread of globalization continues, the world is rapidly adopting the values of Western culture, which are apparently what the vast majority of citizens of every country want, however much their traditional rulers might hate such hopes and changes to the societies they rule over. Since Galileo was censored by oppressive popes, science and reason have increasingly spread so that today a group of scientists at Harvard University can confidently tell as how rapidly a most exotic heavenly body 56 million light years away from us  is spinning - when the light and x-rays the scientists have measured left that distant place, there were still dinosaurs walking the Earth! When I was born, not that long ago, black holes were not even believed to exist by most scientists, and now we are investigating their properties.

And tomorrow?

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Reference

First glimpse of a black hole's spin. (2013, February 27). BBC News Science & Environment. Retrieved March 6, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21607945

Hadden, G. (2013, February 27). The church dome painted by graffiti artists. BBC News Magazine. Retrieved March 6, 2013 from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21529832

What Bas Likes to Read

My interesting reading thing  is news because I love to know what happen around me. My scope of news that I want to know did not limit only just in Thailand, I also interest in other countries's  news that happen in across the world such as the the US and the UK. Moreover, I usually read the English news from news's websites, for example, BBC News website because I can practice my reading English skill while I can receive update news too. Furthermore, although it does not matter what the news are, I prefer to read the scientific news to entertainment news because I think these news can improve my knowledge more than the latter.

What Apple likes to read

I like to read about arts since I was in middle school. My arts instructor give a book to me " The History Of Arts". When I first saw it I think why he gave me a big heavy book to me anyway I opened it and can stop to read it. that why i started to love to read Arts Books every kind of it and I started to made my own art work.

What Sorn Likes to Read

I like to read about travelling. I would say reading travel magazine is my favorite thing to do when I have free time. I have been enjoy it since I was in university. I met one of my beloved professors, Mark, who loves to travel around the world and always takes terrific photos of places wherever he go. He always said in class that "Life is journey, it would be better to find out more interesting things than stay in your own corner."

What Kan Likes to Read

I like to read about new technology especially computer technology, gadget, mobile devices, communication technology which make influences in our daily life, and I also like to read about travelling which suggests us  new places to visit and tells us interesting experiences of traveler. What's more, there are many brilliant photos around the world that can impact me in travelling magazines.

What Ming likes to read

I like to read about science, especially in astronomy. When I was young I loved gazing night skies, I've always been fascinated by what hidden in the skies. My first astronomy book is "Universe in a Nutshell" by Stephen Hawking. I really love that book since Hawking has his way to describe something simply ,and I learned many things from it, not only some theories of Hawking but also inspiration to be a good but simple theoretician.

Now I'm interesting in experiment to find dark matter in the universe and trying to find something to read about CERN's experiment. I'd love to read a review about CERN's experiment that written in an understandable for high school students way.

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What Arm Likes to Read

I like to read scientific magazines. I really like that so much because I feel excited when I read the new topics. I discovered myself that I enjoyed reading these by  persuading from my friends when I studied in upper secondary school. They took me to read in the library, and traveled in strange places every weekend. For these book, one of the most interesting book that I love is the Natural Globalization. I have been fascinated in topics of Earth, oceans, and animals living in the deep sea. It also show about the movement of plates, the event of life's origin, the disasters from global warming, and the accuracy of the end of the world.

What Tape Like to Read

I like to read about business magazine. I would to know how the world is changing because nowadays many things are changing rapidly such as technology, communication and economy. I think if someone has more knowledge, he/she will get more benefit for do his/her business. Not only about business that I would like to read but also about how to use the internet. At present , the internet are popular for anyone who would like to open their shop because it less your cost and it is a easy way to approach to customers.