At the beginning of the 20th century, the frozen Arctic glaciers belonged among the most mysterious areas and, at the same time, the fascinating natural phenomena. After over a hundred years of research, they are used as evidence of...
In some countries, including Indonesia, mental illnesses are still taboo. Especially in rural areas, we often encounter their imprisonment in unbearable conditions. The Indonesian practice of imprisonment and restricting mentally ill people is called "Pasung“. Although this term has...
You shall probably also protest if someone comes to your house and starts destroying it. Animals must, however, regularly face such challenges, mainly due to deforestation, which keeps growing rapidly in some places on the planet. If we continue...
Across the globe, humans aspire to have perfect government systems, which would uphold human chastity. Humans desire freedom of doing things with minimum interference. Moreover, people search for opportunities for prosperity. It is also the wish of humans to...
In Japan, there is nothing new about cramped housing. You can find many small apartments to rent. They are known as “capsule hotels”. One such example is the small rooms in Tokyo, discovered by photographer Won Kim. He could...
There is an increasing number of acid attacks in the world. Though it sounds terrible, the reality is even worse. Attack victims describe that the attack is worse than murder. Acid destroys not only aesthetic appearance but also health...
Do you want to quit smoking? On average, each cigarette shortens a smoker's life by around 11 minutes. Do you know that smokers take 25 percent more sick days year than non-smokers?
About 1000 persons younger 18 years of age...
Statin drugs can be very dangerous. Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs block the production of cholesterol in the liver. In doing this, they also block the production of CoQ10 (Coenzyme Q10, also known as ubiquinone). Not surpprisingly, the side effectscommonly associated...
Haiti has once again been left devastated after another hurricane left hundreds dead and
scores more injured in October 2016. In a series of floods that have spanned over the course of 4 days, there have already been more than...
Anybody can get HIV. 36.9 million (31.1–43.9 million) people were living with HIV at the end of 2017. HIV can be transmitted when a bodily fluid with the virus comes into contact with a mucous membrane or damaged tissue,...
