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POPSSlavery Today During the four years that Benjamin Skinner researched modern-day slavery, he posed as a buyer at illegal brothels on several continents, interviewed convicted human traffickers in a Romanian prison and endured giardia, malaria, dengue and a bad motorcycle accident. But Skinner is most haunted by his experience in a brothel in Bucharest, Romania, where he was offered a young woman with Down syndrome in exchange for a used car.
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POPSBeaver Fever This is called "Beaver Fever, because when (in Oregon and other Northwestern areas)it is found in cold water streams where the Beavers live and defecate . Just one more reason why you should not drink from open streams without treating the water first. Those little purification tablets they sell, do not kill protozoans only some forms of algae and bacteria. If you have ever had this disease ("giardiasis"), you may pray for death. It causes projectile vomiting and diarrhea so profound that the dehydration could possibly kill you. In the small mountain town I was living in in the 1980s, there was an outbreak in the water system reservoir, and brother let me tell ya it wasn't pretty. In a town of 3,100 there were over 25 reported cases. No one died, but no one ever forgot it either.
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POPSThere are more Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History
During the four years that Benjamin Skinner researched modern-day slavery, he posed as a buyer at illegal brothels on several continents, interviewed convicted human traffickers in a Romanian prison and endured giardia, malaria, and dengue. But Skinner is most haunted by his experience in a brothel in Bucharest, Romania, where he was offered a young woman with Down syndrome in exchange for a used car. We in America are not affected by this, right? On average, every half-hour, one more person will have been trafficked to the US into slavery. About 14,000-17,000 are trafficked into the U.S. each year and forced to work within U.S. borders under threat of violence for no pay beyond subsistence. Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking and Free the Slaves both work to bring attention to this modern day horror. Barack Obama is still setting his foreign policy agenda. He needs to hear from all of us that the true abolition of slavery needs to be a part of his legacy.
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POPSchlorine resistant microbial pathogens uh-oh. guess chlorine isn't 100% effective. guess i answered my own question, too. one of the byproducts of the chlorine disinfecting of the wastewater must be DBP's. Is that just a cute pet name that the EPA came up with?
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POPSWhat Is Giardia? Giardia infection is an intestinal infection marked by abdominal cramps, bloating, nausea and watery diarrhea. Giardia infection is caused by a parasite that is found worldwide, especially in areas with poor sanitation and unsafe water.
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POPSMicroscope On A Chip Researchers at Caltech, recently developed the revolutionary new type of microscope without lenses. The devices could be mass-produced at a cost of $10 each and incorporated into large arrays, enabling high-throughput imaging in biology labs. The device is also compact enough to be put in a cell phone and it can use just sunlight for illumination. This makes it very appealing for Third-World applications,
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POPS"Scope" out your Phone ! Wow ! Now standing in line not only will we be able to get a larger and more detailed picture of the Credit Card # but will also be able to get a thumb print picture as well.For later development of thumb print " ID " It makes standing in line fun again !
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POPSSteriPEN Costs $150, but great concept: uses UV radiation to kill dangers in drinking water.
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