Water kills millions each year
It’s understandable that one might forget about the basics, with all that’s happening these days. What’s not easy to understand are the numbers regarding the basics.
Polluted water and lack of basic sanitation claim the lives of over 1.5 million children every year, mostly from water-borne diseases.An estimated 425 million children under 18 still do not have access to an improved water supply, and over 980 million do not have access to adequate sanitation.
Over one billion people have no access to improved drinking water.
Filed Under Environment, Research, World Health
Haiku for Otaku
Otaku Hunters
Mug the feeble and wealthy
Leave the nerds alone.
Filed Under Modern Life
Volleyball across the border wall
This is a beautiful idea. Follow this link to the Wholphin DVD website and see the preview of the Wallyball game between the Mexico and USA teams over the border wall at the Pacific Coast Beach between both countries. I wonder if someone could play volleyball over every significant border, either beach or not. I think it is a symbol of unity and understanding. Israel, Palestine and the wall between could be a great field for Wallyball too. Also some historical matches could happen, a classic: East - West Berlin or current North - South Korea.
Filed Under Diversity, Modern Life, Politics
Let’s schedule some sex
Most magazines will tell you that spontaneity and crazy naughty sex is the hottest sex out there. In a world of appointments and schedules, in a world where people schedule doctor visits, massages and even online sex, real sex can be scheduled too; and it’s hot. It’s not about, “Mondays and Wednesdays: 7:25 pm” but more about, lets get to it after dinner without excuse Monday and Wednesday night. Marty Klein said at a recent seminar: “Americans have sex when we’re tired.” This might apply for the rest of the world; with a proper schedule for sex it might even be more enjoyable. Regine Lynn from Wired wrote a great piece on this new trend. I think its weird at first but who said it was a schedule for love; it’s sex on time.
Filed Under Modern Life
Are you sick? It’s just fat
Obesity has always been considered the result of a lifestyle; however it now has been transforming itself into a new thing: a disease. Metabolic Syndrome is a new way doctors are calling obesity, with this a new target for the pharmaceutical industry is created. Drugs to cure obesity and doctor approved: a great formula for economic success! The obese are ill and we have to cure them, instead of diet and exercise, lets drug them! Isn’t obesity a result of a lazy life? Isn’t obesity a result of not caring for what one eats, indulgence and lack of exercise? Shouldn’t doctors promote a better lifestyle instead of a quick solution, like a thinning pill? The worst part of this news, is that nobody will even notice and then everybody is taking pills for diseases that do not even exist as diseases but they are only conditions.
Filed Under Modern Life, World Health
UK Time Banks making progress
Time Banking works! Residents of New Addington, England have clocked almost 1,000 hours of Time Bank work. Time Banking uses hours and good deeds as currency.
Launched in April of last year, New Addington citizens barter hours of services such as pet care, gardening, guitar tuition, childcare, ironing, DIY and decorating.
It’s catching on and spreading. Time Banking works!
We’re going to talk more about this topic. Stay tuned!
For more information on UK Time Banks, go here.
Filed Under Modern Life
Censoring Mozart because of religion
It’s my belief that art is created not by hands or minds alone, but with faith and belief, or a lack of. Experiencing art as either an observer or creator is a spiritual experience and it always has been. But in a time when religion seems to be dying, tensions are rising and with that art is being censored to keep the peace.
In recent years sculptures have been removed from museums, plays have been cancelled, directors have been murdered, all in fear of or as a result of insulting various religions.
Most recently, Mozart’s opera “Idomeneo” has been cancelled in Berlin because of a scene that involves the severed heads of Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad and the sea god Poseidon.
Filed Under Diversity, Media & Society