Good afternoon Dear Bloggets. It’s actually beautiful here
today. Sunny and warm an yet friends who live in other parts of England are
saying it’s snowing where they are. Such a small country but how our weather
can differ!
I’ve not long been in having spent a few hours with a really
special much-loved person. A beautiful time. There are few people like that in
the world so, when you have a special person hang onto them.
Now just a thought as old readers will know my head can go
from recipes to what I am about to chat about in a flash. They say that people
are becoming more infertile because of our water and the contraceptive pill.
Well I know it sounds odd, but what about human sperm/Urine, in the ocean/lakes/rivers/swimming
pools, I know the latter sounds gross, but are you getting me? Then I had an immature
thought and chuckle, perhaps that is where mermaids come from? And then I
decided over a black lemon tea, to be sensible and fill my daily need for an
interesting scientific story, so I started to read about the subject below!
This headline interested me. Israeli lander demonstrates a
short cut to the moon.
Gosh, really? Israel are the forth country to put a space
craft on the moon, after Russia, The US and China.
It’s supposed to have cost so much less than other crafts as
it’s private but still cost 95 million Dollars. Oh, gosh please why can’t we
put that money in our beautiful planet earth? Save what we have rather than
spoil another planet.
As for the short cut? I think that may have been headlines,
as I can’t find a faster route to the moon… but if you know differently, please
let me know?
I was also reading about medical innovations for 2019 and
here are some of them.
Alternative therapy for pain, which uses a patient’s genetic
makeup to predict an individual’s metabolism.
Pharmacogenomics can also be used to predict who may have
little or no pain relief to some opiate-basedanalgesics. This means people
could have tailored medicine and they may finish their prescriptions earlier
than they do now also they won’t have any adverse complications because the
treatment will be specialised for their own body. Sounds great doesn’t it?
Artificial intelligence. A.i., can be beneficial in aiding
in the screening process and making sense much faster than a human as it will be
able to read data faster and more efficient than the human eye/brain.
Talking of eyes, and we were kind of… It was on our news
today that people in the UK are not donating their eyes after they have died.
They say it’s too personal? Haha, what is your heart? If you are dead, and you believe all is fine
by donating parts of your body, then are your eyes not the same as other
organs?
I have been reading lots of positive things of late about
our future and treatments to give us sight. I shall leave links at the bottom,
but I have noticed a significant change in the language that is now being used.
It’s subtle but it’s there. And what I am talking about is something I have
been waiting for, for so many years, in fact since I can remember. And that
something is, numbers. Time, years are now being spoken about. Even a year ago,
no one was prepared to put a time on when or if a cure/treatment would become
available. But now there’s talk like three years, and to me that is a huge step
forward. No one would commit to a time before and I can remember only ten years
ago, medics saying not in my life time. And I’m not that old, honest… I’m in my
prime…. Well that is what I tell myself, pity my body doesn’t agree. Haha.
Trachoma is a disease which causes in turned eye lids that
can make you blind. Thank God that dreadful condition is close to being eliminated
thanks to charities such as sight savers.
It’s caused by crowded living conditions and dirty water. Mass
treatment and improved sanitation and only then the horrific painful disease
can be treated. It’s down to money again.
Something like sight, a life changing thing like blindness
especially in developing countries where technology isn’t available can be
saved but only if money is given. Can you imagine, you lose your vision because
you don’t have the money?
3D printing is in our news a lot too. And again, tailored to
our bodies so our body shouldn’t reject treatment. A full-face transplant has
been done using 3D. Heart operations and loads more.
Robots in the operating room are now providing surgeons with
guidance for extreme precision in surgery.
Hope is infectious, even can heal you, but in a world that
seems to be full of darkness, its great to read something positive. In the past
twenty years, the number of children dying of hunger, poverty and disease, has
halved from 30,000 per day to 15,000. Of course, still far too many deaths that
are unnecessary. I mean, money is needed to send crafts to planets in which we
don’t belong rather than saving our people…. But again, at least we are heading
in a good direction with the statistics being halved.
We are almost 100 % on the way to eradicating polio
globally.
In 2018 only 29
people got Polio around the world
And this is my mind and how it can change like a lightbulb.
Smile. A group I’m in was asking about soaking lentils. You don’t really need
to soak them these days. You can cook them and if you do soak them, no more
than 12 hours otherwise after 12 hours, please throw them out.
I was reading today that Apple are to make a small iPhone.
Fantastic. Hub and I don’t need a large screen and small phones are better to
put into our jeans pocket if we are just popping out to a local shop for
example. I don’t want to be taking a bag with me. Less is better. Especially
when you have a wagging one on harness by your side.
The brilliant group ABBA, are to release new music in the
Autumn. Wonderful. Love them.
And tomorrow I feel a different blog coming on. So, bear
with and I shall leave you with the links.
This is amazing news
And more, not for RP, but close
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