Cell phones and cancer

Do cell phones cause brain cancer?
Jury still out on this question. So far, studies show no relationship after about 10 years of use – see Danish study (conducted by Johansen et al.) linking data on all of the 420,095 cell phone users in Denmark between 1982 and 1995 to the Danish Cancer Registry.
Muriella’s [...]

Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Sign the Declaration of Human Rights
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – many years before most of the millennials and some genxers were born.
It is now time for a global conversation about human rights and the values that unite us [...]

Texting SMS

Is texting becoming a universal language? Or has it already?

Txt n Frnc: Parlez SMS?
May 24, 2008 at 2:32 pm
“There’s a snack like piece in the Economist on how the French are revolting against SMS truncification of the “langue glorieuse de la France.” Seems President Bling himself, Mon. Sarkozy’s concern is DefCon Level 1: “Look at [...]

Let us talk about water

Water quality, that is
The debate on water rages on…with a focus differentiation depending on where one is. Most of the discussion below is on water quality as there are more and more agents in the water, despite it being treated, that could be injurious to human health.
We have been sharing with you the dangers [...]

Day for mothers

Sunday is the day dedicated to all mothers.  For some it is a day of pleasure, happiness, gifts, hugs…for others it is just another day, another day fraught with worry and concern for things real and conceived.  Then there are those mothers caught up in the man-made wars which affect their children, their lifestyle and [...]