My Love My Joy

My Love and I love to have our monthly visit to JB CoffeeBean.

This is her at 24 weeks... days and weeks have gone past quickly and

soon we'll be having our baby boy mid August =)

Sundog

A sundog is a common bright circular spot on a solar halo. It is an atmospheric optical phenomenon primarily associated with the reflection or refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals making up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. Often, two or more sundogs can be seen on opposite sides of the sun simultaneously. - Wiki

The Einstein refrigerator

The Einstein refrigerator is an absorption-type refrigerator which has no moving parts and requires only a heat source to operate. It was jointly invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd and patented in the US on November 11, 1930. - Wiki

Prophecies of Nostradamus

Born on 14 Dec 1503, Michel de Nostredame is a seer who is best known for his book Les Propheties (1555). Most said that his predictions are purely misinterpretations and are deliberately translated and conveyed wrongly to suit the current event catastrophies or disasters.

Although he never claimed to be a prophet, his followers made him to be a cult like symbol.

I prefer to see his prophercies or those misconceptions as purely fun ideas only to be taken lightly.

Bees Disappearing

Colony Collapse Disorder (or CCD)
This is a phenomenon where worker bees from a beehive or western honey bee colony abreuptly disappear. This has been seen at countries like the Netherlands, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, Belgium & France. The causes are not well understood.It is speculated that the causes could be due to environmental change-related stresses. malnutrition, pathogens (disease including Israel acute paralysis virus), mites, pesticides such as neonicotinoids or imidacloprid, and genetically modified (GM) crops with pest control characteristics such as transgenic maize.

Electromagnetic radiation
There has been an error on extracting information of studies from University of Landau implying that CCD has relations to the usage of mobile phones. Thus far it has created "a horror story" in the internet media.

There has also been a quote supposedly from Albert Einstein “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination … no more men!” This has further speed up the distribution of the hoax internet message. - Wiki

Five Ways To Save The World

Five Ways To Save The World
Climate change is being felt the world over and if global warming continues to increase the effects could be catastrophic. Some scientists and engineers are proposing radical, large-scale ideas that could save us from disaster.

The first three proposed ideas featured in the film, look at reducing the power of the sun - thereby cooling the planet. The other two men in the programme want to tackle the problem of excess carbon dioxide - the cause of global warming.

(1) Professor Roger Angel from Arizona - the designer of the world's largest telescope - is proposing to put a giant glass sunshade in space. Professor Angel's sunshade will deflect a small percentage of the sun's rays back into space.

(2) Dutch Professor Paul Crutzen won the Nobel Prize for chemistry when he discovered the causes of the hole in the ozone layer. His plan is to fire hundreds of rockets loaded with tons of sulphur into the stratosphere creating a vast, but very thin sunscreen of sulphur around the earth.

(3) British atmospheric physicist Professor John Latham and engineer Stephen Salter, have designed a fleet of remote-controlled yachts. These will pump fine particles of sea water into the clouds, increasing the thickness of the clouds and reflecting the suns rays.

(4)Sydney engineer Professor Ian Jones proposes to feed plankton with gallons of fertiliser. This will make the plankton grow and absorb carbon dioxide from the air.

(5)New York-based Professor Klaus Lackner has designed a carbon dioxide capturing machine and his plan is to locate more of them across the globe. They would suck in carbon dioxide, turn it into a powder and he would bury it deep under the ocean in disused oil or gas fields.

Most of the scientists are reluctant advocates of these ideas, and all believe we should be cutting down on our use of fossil fuels to heat our homes and drive our cars.
But is time running out for planet earth?

Although these ideas might have unknown side effects, some scientists believe we may soon have no choice but to put these radical and controversial plans into action.
-BBC

Hole in the Ozone layer

Paul Jozef Crutzen (born December 3, 1933, Amsterdam) is a Dutch Nobel prize winning atmospheric chemist.


Crutzen is best known for his research on ozone depletion. He lists his main research interests as Stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry, and their role in the biogeochemical cycles and climate. He currently works at the Department of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, in Mainz, Germany and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California.


1995: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with Dr. M. Molina and Dr. F. S. Rowland, U.S.A.)


Professor Paul Crutzen, who won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for his work on the hole in the ozone layer, believes that political attempts to limit man-made greenhouse gases are so pitiful that a radical contingency plan is needed.