| The past is lessons to learn |
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Written by Fel Gorospe
Thursday, 02 September 2010 11:36 |
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Fel Gorospe
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|  THE PAST IS LESSONS TO LEARN. THE PRESENT IS OPPORTUNITY TO PRACTICE THOSE LESSONS. THE FUTURE IS TIME TO ENJOY THOSE LESSONS LEARNED AND PRACTICED.
UNIVERSE. Astronauts can become as weak as 8-year-olds after six months at the Interna-tional Space Station, according to a new study that raises serious health concerns as NASA contemplates prolonged trips to asteroids and Mars. Marquette University biologist Robert Fitts stresses that the accelerated space aging is temporary: Astronauts can avoid becoming weaklings, however, with more research and the right equipment for hitting the space gym.
WORLD. A 22-year-old Mexican woman won the Miss Universe pageant this week while a 6-l magnitude earthquake hit off the west coast of her country. Donning a red gown, Jimena Navar-rete told the audience it’s important to teach kids family values. She was the first to answer an interview question and the last of 83 contestants standing in headline-grabbing pageant on the Las Vegas strip. The earthquake struck 290 kms from the town of Puerto Vallarta in Jalisco state.
GERMANY. A Polish man living in Germany went about his business for five years without noticing he had been shot in the head because he was drunk when it happened. Doctors found a .22 caliber bullet in the back of his head after the man went to have what he thought was a cyst removed. The man had received a blow to the head midnight at a New Year's party "in 2004.
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| Freedom of Choice |
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Written by Fel Gorospe
Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:27 |
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| AS HUMAN BEINGS, WE ARE ENDOWED WITH FREEDOM OF CHOICE, AND WE CAN’T SHUFFLE OFF OUR RESPONSIBILITY UPON THE SHOULDERS OF GOD OR NATURE. WE MUST SHOULDER IT OURSELVES. IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY.
UNIVERSE. Young, massive stars have been caught setting off ripples through a giant space cloud in the same way that wind drives waves on the ocean. The intermittent ripples were seen in a molecular cloud associated with the Orion nebula, a well-known stellar nursery within the constellation Orion. A new study led by Leiden University in Netherlands found that intense radiation emitted by nearby stars more massive than our sun was at the root of the process.
WORLD. Hindus have sent early greetings to Muslim communities world over for the festival of "Id al-Fitr" on the breaking of the fast of Ramadan, the blessed ninth month of the Islamic year. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a release in the USA this week, expressed warmest greetings on the upcoming Id festival wishing that it brought joy, happiness and cheer to all the Muslims. Islam and Hinduism are the second and third largest religions of the world respectively.
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| The end is never as satisfying as the journey |
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Written by Fel Gorospe
Wednesday, 18 August 2010 09:29 |
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| THE END IS NEVER AS SATISFYING AS THE JOURNEY TO HAVE ACHIEVED EVERYTHING. BUT TO HAVE DONE SO WITHOUT INTEGRITY AND EXCITEMENT IS TO HAVE ACHIEVED NOTHING.
UNIVERSE. By putting their home computers to work when they would otherwise be idle, three "citizen scientists" have discovered a rare astronomical object. The unusual find is called a "dis-rupted binary pulsar". The discoverers, from the US and Germany, found the object with the help of the Einstein@Home project. It asks users to donate time on their computers, allowing them to be used for searching through scientific data. This type is known as "distributed computing".
WORLD. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon this week urged the world to speed up aid to Pakistan after devastating floods have affected 20 million people. Ban arrived in the flood-ravaged nation to boost relief efforts for flood-affected Pakistan. Survivors fought over food being handed out from a relief’s vehicle close to the trown of Sindh, ripping at each other’s clothes, and causing such chaos that the distribution had to be abandoned.
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| Test your limits |
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Written by Fel Gorospe
Tuesday, 17 August 2010 12:52 |
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| IT TAKES COURAGE TO PUSH YOURSELF TO PLACES THAT YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN BEFORE--TO TEST YOUR LIMITS AND TO BREAK THROUGH BARRIERS. AND THE DAY CAME, WHEN THE RISK IT TOOK TO REMAIN TIGHT INSIDE THE BUD, WAS MORE PAINFUL THAN THE RISK IT TOOK TO BLOSSOM.
UNIVERSE. When Soviet engineer Yuri Artsutanov came up with his concept for an "electric train to the cosmos" in 1960, he thought it would take 200 years to turn it into a reality. Fifty years later, the 81-year-old now thinks that the first space elevator will rise into the heavens 30 years from now. The basic idea is that payloads and people could someday ride vehicles attached to ribbons of super-strong material, reaching orbits as high as 100,000 kilometers.
WORLD. The weather continues to make the headlines with extreme rainfall in Asia and the ongoing heat wave in Eastern Europe. A bitter winter across central Europe is starting to bite. The inside car windows have frozen and some are using hair dryers to warm the engines. In Romania, the cold Siberian front has claimed the lives of at least 22 in five days. On the opposite side of the world, dry weather is also affecting the winter wheat crop in Western Australia.
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| Good Advice |
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Written by Fel Gorospe
Wednesday, 04 August 2010 11:53 |
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| HE THAT GIVES GOOD ADVICE, BUILDS WITH ONE HAND. HE THAT GIVES GOOD COUNSEL AND EXAMPLE, BUILDS WITH BOTH. BUT HE THAT GIVES GOOD ADMONITION AND BAD EXAMPLE, BUILDS WITH ONE HAND AND PULLS DOWN WITH THE OTHER.
UNIVERSE. Two distant alien planets around a dying star have been discovered locked in the closest orbital embrace ever seen, a new study has found. These two gas giant planets are bound by their mutual gravitational attraction, and are closer and tighter than any previously discovered set of planets. The newly discovered pair is orbiting the massive dying star HD 200964, located roughly 223 light-years from Earth. This is the tightest system that's ever been discovered.
WORLD. Floods are sweeping through Asia, with Pakistan, Afghanistan and China the worst affected countries. The monsoon floods have killed more than 900 people with more than 800 confirmed dead in Pakistan. The deluge, which has turned northern Pakistan into a lake, has also killed others in mountainous areas across the border in Afghanistan. The devastating floods in the northeast of China have destroyed 25,000 homes, leaving many people missing.
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