Month: November 2017

Sexual Harassment Around The World.  Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favours.  In most modern legal contexts, sexual harassment is illegal.  As defined by the United States’ Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, “It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or

Great Barrier Reef Potential Life Support System Identified.  A group of “source” reefs have been identified that could form the basis of a life support system for the Great Barrier Reef, helping repair damage by bleaching, starfish and other disturbances.  Researchers from the University of Queensland, CSIRO, Australian Institute of Marine

When I Discovered My Brother Was A Sexual Predator.  I’ve fallen out of touch with a lot of childhood friends, but how it happened with my Christie was different – more sudden, and at the time, inexplicable.  Christie was my best friend.  Her mother, Suzanne, was my mother’s best friend

Android Apps Track Users With 3rd Party Tools.  More than three in four Android apps contain at least one third-party “tracker”, according to a new analysis of hundreds of apps.  The study by French research organisation Exodus Privacy and Yale University’s Privacy Lab analysed the mobile apps for the signatures of 25 known trackers, which use

International Women Human Rights Defenders’ Day.  The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), formerly the Association for Women in Development, is an international, feminist, membership organization committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women’s human rights.  A dynamic network of women and men around the world, AWID members are researchers, academics, students,

10% Of Drugs In Poor Countries Are Fake.  An estimated one in 10 medicines in poor countries are counterfeit and likely responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of children from diseases such as malaria and pneumonia every year, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, 28 November 2017.  In the

The Fragility Of Life.  Henry had just turned 30 and was planning to marry Janice in a year’s time.  He enjoyed his work in his chosen field of computer technology with a large telecommunications company.  He rose quickly in the ranks and was in charge of a dynamic team that

How Should We Deal With Alarmist Health Reporting?  Our brains are constantly sweeping the environment for threats.  Is that stranger friendly or a mugger?  Might this cloud of dust poison me?  Will I fall under a train if I stand here?  Without even thinking about it, the survival instinct is

Why Is Bali’s Mount Agung Eruption Dangerous?  Mount Agung has shown its devastating power in the past.  Now, it erupted again.  Geophysicist Jacqueline Salzer tells DW about the different ways the volcano can kill.  It’s a composite volcano, also known as a stratovolcano.  Such volcanos can often be found at

The 6 Laws Of Technology.  Three decades ago, a historian wrote six laws to explain society’s unease with the power and pervasiveness of technology.  Though based on historical examples taken from the Cold War, the laws read as a cheat sheet for explaining our era of Facebook, Google, the iPhone and FOMO. 

World’s Rarest Penguin Population Plummets.  Almost half the breeding population of the world’s most endangered penguin species, the yellow-eyed penguin, has disappeared in one part of New Zealand and conservation groups believe commercial fishing is to blame.  The yellow-eyed penguin is endemic to New Zealand’s South Island and sub-Antarctic islands, where

Nearby Oldest Stars In Our Galaxy.  Astronomers have discovered some of the oldest stars in our Milky Way galaxy by determining their locations and velocities, according to a study led by scientists at Georgia State University.  Just like humans, stars have a life span: birth, youth, adulthood, senior and death. 

Ten Best Winter Sun And Sea Destinations.  If you live in the northern hemisphere and have an itch to get away for a few weeks from winter, then perhaps travelling somewhere to the sun-drenched equatorial region and/or the southern hemisphere would be an alternative.  In this Guardian article, the jumping

Amazon Tribe’s Medicinal Agroforestry to Save Forests.  In September 2017, Volume II of the Matsés Traditional Medicine Encyclopedia, Neste Tantiaquidon Chuibanaid 2, was delivered to all 14 Matsés villages!  537 pages in length, the second volume is divided into 5 chapters, is hardbound and beautifully illustrated.  The two volumes of the

QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.  Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790). 

Dengue is a risk in many parts of Africa and the Middle East.  Some countries are reporting increased numbers of cases of the disease.  Travelers to Africa and the Middle East can protect themselves by preventing mosquito bites. 

Dengue is a risk in many parts of Asia and the Pacific Islands.  Some countries are reporting increased numbers of cases of the disease.  Travelers to Asia and the Pacific Islands can protect themselves by preventing mosquito bites. 

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Exercise normal precautions in Norway.  Read the Safety and Security section on the country information page.  If you decide to travel to Norway: Enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) to receive travel alerts and make it easier to locate you in an emergency.  Follow the Department of State on Facebook and Twitter.  Review the […]

THE FLAG OF SOUTH SUDAN: It was adopted in 2005, although the country became independent only in 2011.  The flag bears striking similarities with both the flags of Sudan and Kenya.  The horizontal black, white, red, and green bands of the flag share the same design as the Kenyan flag, and the Pan-African symbolism.  Black represents the people of South Sudan; red, the blood that was shed for the independence of the country; green, the country’s agricultural, natural wealth,and land, as well as progress; white, South Sudan’s peace attained after many years of the liberation struggle; blue, the waters of the Nile River, a source of life for the country; and the yellow star, the unity of the states, hope, and determination for all people. 

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NASA has awarded a $13.7 million contract to Advanced Space of Boulder, Colorado, to develop and operate a CubeSat mission to the same lunar orbit targeted for Gateway – an orbiting outpost astronauts will visit before descending to the surface of the Moon in a landing system as part of NASA’s Artemis program. 

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CHRISTIAN LOVE: This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience – it looks for a way of being constructive.  It is not possessive; it is neither anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance.  Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.  It is not touchy.  It does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people.  On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.  Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything.  It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.  1 Corinthians 13: 4 – 8. 

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GOODREADS CURRENTLY READING: By Louis J. Cozolino.  Publisher Norton, 2006.  ISBN 0393704548.  447 pages.  Louis Cozolino shows us how brains are highly social organisms.  Balancing cogent explanation with instructive brain diagrams, he presents an atlas of sorts, illustrating how the architecture and development of brain systems from before birth through adulthood determine how we interact with others. 

PROFILE: Creation is enthralling and mysterious, and the wisdom of God remains perennially unfathomable.  To know Him is to barely understand His heart but to know myself.  And despite the many regrettable mistakes that have been made, the sufficiency of His grace, faithfulness, and lovingkindness is deeply appreciated.  My enriching journey with Him took me through the halls of national service (the army), auditing, cross-cultural missionary service, church work, mentoring, psychology, and caregiving.  Although now in retirement, I am still very much a learner at heart and an avid reader, and despite the smudges in life, I love it.  Eternity then becomes a lifelong expectation.  Zheluo Cai