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Stem cells have the potential to become any kind of cell in your body.
From the TED-Ed Lesson What are stem cells? - Craig A. Kohn
Animated by Qa'ed Mai
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According to UNICEF, 663 million people worldwide do not have access to clean drinking water. The book’s technology can successfully turn even diluted sewage into filtered water that’s comparable to the tap water in America.
How it works: Tear out a page, slide it into the filter box, pour in the contaminated water, and what comes out is safe to drink.
One book can provide someone with clean water for up to four years.
Each book costs pennies to produce, but funding is desperately needed to help bring it to the market.
(via did-you-know)
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It is of no use arguing your journey or path with others. Believe in it, embrace to its core, and with force, self-belief, and authentic endeavour walk it, walk it hard, and make sure your live your footprints.
JC2015
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Innovations don’t always need to be shiny and new looking…
Intoducing tippy tap…a hands free way to wash your hands that is especially appropriate where there is no running water or where there is limited handwashing facilities. It is operated by a foot lever and thus reduces the chance for bacteria transmission.
Go Tippy Tap!!!
© UNICEF/Zambia/2012/Asindua
Learn more: http://www.unicef.org/wash/index_43107.html
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More people have access to mobile phones than to bog-standard sanitation around the world.
The numbers are actually quite close – both are around the 4.5bn mark. But the implications are clear: we value a text, a tweet over one of our most basic sanitary needs: the loo.
(via guardian)
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Floating Toilets That Clean Themselves Grow On A Lake
Imagine you live on a floating lake house. Open air. Chirping crickets. Clear, starry nights. Everything seems great until you need to use the bathroom.
The natural instinct might be to make a deposit in the water. But that wouldn’t be safe. Microbes in your feces would contaminate the water and could cause outbreaks of deadly diseases, like cholera.
A group of engineers in Cambodia wants to solve that problem for the floating villages of Tonle Sap Lake, the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. Over a million people live on or around it. Exposure to wastewater spawns diarrhea outbreaks each year. In Cambodia, diarrheal diseases cause 1 in 5 deaths of children under age 5.
To help clean the lake’s water, engineers at the company Wetlands Work! in Phnom Penh are developing plant-based purifiers, called Handy Pods. The pods are essentially little kayaks filled with plants. They float under the latrine of a river house and decontaminate the water that flows out.
Here’s how it works. When a person uses the latrine, the wastewater flows into an expandable bag, called a digester. A microbial soup of bacteria and fungi inside the digester breaks down the organic sludge into gases, such as carbon dioxide, ammonia and hydrogen.
Photo: A pod to pick up your poo: The Handy Pod features floating hyacinth plants placed underneath a houseboat’s latrine. The blue tarp offers privacy. (Courtesy Taber Hand)
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“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.” — Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via thesewordstogether) -
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stirringwind.tumblr.com I think one difficulty Western Europe faces re: European Muslims is the disconnect between how Europeans and European Muslims view religion in public life. Many Muslims are immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa and:
Political Islam in the Middle-East and North Africa was very often a…
