Sulphur polluton is dangerous

Mon May 7, 2012 8:15 AM EDT

Sulphur and sulphur compounds showed to be very toxic, so have been in the west and Tunisia also already banished from medical use ( sulfamide...) and agriculture ( sulphur powder as pesticid ) ! But as you see : the port officers do not have enough general culture to know it an …

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pollution, environment, sea, sulphur

Destruction of natural habitats of wildlife: possible health impacts

Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:36 PM EDT

The alteration of the natural environment takes different forms: 1 * The destruction of natural environments such as forests and prairies and steppes, whether to create new human settlements or not directly, due to remote human activity, forcing animals to move closer to areas of …

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environment

Scientific advances: Harmful consequences

Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:34 PM EDT

Harmful consequences of the lack of application and vulgarisation in the domestic and hygienic fields in a background of poverty0 1 * The poor and middle families continue to cook in aluminum utensils, and manufacturing of these continues. Aluminum dissolves in the f …

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environment

Public health warning : hepatitis

Sun Apr 29, 2012 11:47 AM EDT

I can be almost sure now of the nature of a health problem observed on a large scale in our city, especially among the poor and in public transport facilities (healthy cases are rare now): it must be a form of hepatitis. Symptoms are mostly yellowish discoloration of th …

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health, hepatitis

The Sun , under His light

Sat May 21, 2011 8:56 AM EDT

When I see the sun , I ask myself : is it objective the vision of things only under the sun ? But more thinking suggests to me that people in past didn't need go to the sea . They had the sun with them inside town.

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environment

Appointment democracy !

Mon May 2, 2011 3:21 PM EDT

Given that democracy is "power to the people and arbitration to ballot" , the fact of limiting people's participation in a large election deadline is a defect that can be an almost anti-democratic drift.

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election, democracy, system, parliament

Atlantic Rising - Case Studies

Seeded on Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:00 AM EST (atlanticrising.org)

Actually, what appears to be a sea of grass is a unique habitat where fauna from temperate North America live on vegetation found in the Caribbean. Sixty percent of the park is less than one metre above sea level so the glades are extremely vulnerable to sea level rise.

environment, marine, temperature, atlantic, fauna

BBC News - Egypt unrest: Hosni Mubarak warns of chaos if he quits

Seeded on Fri Feb 4, 2011 4:33 PM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

Egypt, a big country ,can be discussed in one brain shake? "fed up" with power.

egypt, world-news, top-stories, bbc-college, analysis-egypt

France24 - Interim cabinet set for shakeup as protesters keep up the pressure

Seeded on Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:10 PM EST (Frace24)

A rally in favour of the new leadership was also broken up by a larger anti-government crowd in chaotic scenes along the central Avenue Bourguiba.

tunisia, world-news, scenery

Battles in Tunis as new government takes shape - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Mon Jan 17, 2011 4:45 AM EST (Yahoo! News)

Ghannouchi held consultations with the leaders of the main opposition parties in Tunis on the formation of a national unity government to fill the power vacuum left by Ben Ali's abrupt departure after 23 years in power.

politics, tunisia, government, change, potun

ITN Source: specials: 2010 News Review

Seeded on Sun Jan 2, 2011 6:00 AM EST (itnsource.com)

The 2010 News Review

review, 2010

15 useful tools for your Windows desktop - most free - Computerworld

Seeded on Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:12 AM EST (Computerworld)

15 utilities that belong in every Windows user's bag of tricks. They're all free for personal use; many are free for corporate use as wel

technology, free, computer, software

MSN Virus..Help! - Tech Support Guy Forums

Seeded on Tue Dec 7, 2010 5:57 AM EST (forums.techguy.org)

did you experience such incident on computer? I just got a really strange virus on MSN...I was just chatting with my friend, and messages that said"I took a picture yesterday, want to see it" started coming up over and over again like crazy.

technology

BBC News - British volunteer dies in fall from Nepal hotel window

Seeded on Tue Dec 7, 2010 5:56 AM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

A volunteer had an accident and died in hotel

travel

Similarities between ancient south american civilizations and meditarraneean ones

Seeded on Mon Nov 29, 2010 4:51 AM EST (home.mindspring.com)

"I believe that the writing is Semitic.

history, latin-america, phoenicians

About environmental change and biological dysfunction possibly related to climate change

Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:04 AM EST

We observe nowadays more and more in fields and gardens that fruit trees have green leaves and also fruits in late autumn, a time when normally they should have lost all their leaves and begun hibernation.

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environment, climate-change, trip, tree

BBC News - Kidney zap lowers blood pressure

Seeded on Wed Nov 17, 2010 1:19 PM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

A short blast of radio waves to the kidneys can help control high blood pressure in patients who do not respond to medication, a study shows.

health, medicine, kidney

BBC News - Canadian officials see through 'unbelievable' disguise

Seeded on Sat Nov 6, 2010 6:38 PM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

"The subject attended the washroom and emerged an Asian looking male that appeared to be in his early twenties."

world-news

BBC News - Indonesia tsunami: Death toll soars to 282

Seeded on Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:15 PM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

The death toll from a tsunami that hit several remote islands in Indonesia has risen to at least 282, officials say.

tsunami, environment

BBC News - Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner dies

Seeded on Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:13 PM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

he had overseen Argentina's recovery from a severe economic crisis.

latin, world-news, amarica

Social HumanitarianN and ASSOCIATIVE work and behaviour issues

Tue Oct 26, 2010 11:19 AM EDT

SOCIAL HUMANITARIAN and ASSOCIATIVE work and behaviour ISSUES

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society, activism, association, benevolent

BBC News - Spending Review: Care cuts 'may hit hospital beds'

Seeded on Sat Oct 23, 2010 6:41 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

Hospital beds in England may fill up with the elderly and vulnerable because of cuts to local authority social care funding, a top NHS figure has warned.

health

Social and civilization issues:The material humanitarian relief and its place in the field of charitable action and defense of human rights.

Mon Oct 18, 2010 5:18 PM EDT

Social and civilization issues: The material humanitarian relief and its place in the field of charitable action and defense of human rights.

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human, rights

BBC News - Chile mine: Jubilation as rescue ends

Seeded on Thu Oct 14, 2010 5:04 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

The 22-hour operation saw each man being winched up in a narrow capsule. They have now been taken to hospital.

rescue, miners, environment, chile, trapped

BBC News - Hungary fears new leak from toxic sludge reservoir

Seeded on Sat Oct 9, 2010 8:16 AM EDT (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)

Around 150 people were injured by the spill of up to 700,000 cubic metres (24.7m cu ft) of red toxic sludge - many receiving burns.

health, spill, hazard, txic, chmical

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Comments & Feedback

whatalonghumanquest,

I'm sorry that this will be such a sort post, but we are having dinner with friends tonight, and I'm inn a bit of a hurry.

BTW means By The Way.

You might know these other ones, but in case you don't:

IMO means In My Opinion

OMG means Oh My God

I assume your know LOL, ROTFL, etc, but if not, just ask.

Are you posting from Tunisia, or are you living somewhere else? I'm on the East Coast of the USA, near Princeton University.
— Physicist-retired

whatalonghumanquest,

I am very proud to have a friend from Tunisia.

I must tell you, though, that I am not a physician - I'm a physicist (like Einstein, or Newton, or Steven Hawking) - there is a difference.

I'd enjoy talking with you about your country, as I plan to visit it. I'd like to hear from you what it is like, and what would be important to see. Also, what the people are like.

I'm having dinner with friends tonight. Perhaps we can take this up tomorrow?
— Physicist-retired

whatalonghumanquest,

Is it true that you are from Tunisia? That's been on my short list of 'must see' places for a few years.

Please let me know if you came from there (use my comment page). I'd really enjoy talking with you about Tunisia.
— Physicist-retired