Ecological Homeostasis

Are We Short of Water and Food ??

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A recent study has revealed that giving up meat could drastically reduce one's carbon footprint. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year (as many) greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car for 4,758 km, the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said last week. But the food a vegetarian consumes in (the same period of time) is responsible for generating (gases only) as driving for 2,427km, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch...
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From All Corners of the Galaxy

Which Stars Are You From?
  • Galactic Highway - The Wormhole

    • Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

    If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).

    Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.

    Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.

    Source:http://www.universetoday.com/

  • Stream of Time

    • Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.

    Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.

    Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.

    Source: http://www.socialtext.net/

2008-07-04

An-an's Website (安安免費教學網站)

芯菱母親 口述於 九十四年初夏

母親的話： 猶記得在十多年前的一個冬天，我曾在媽祖廟前祈求：「上天若能留給我們一條生路、賞口溫飽，我們必定教導孩子以愛待人。」芯菱卻將此誓言銘記在心，並實踐於大愛中。說起來也慚愧，芯菱的第一部電腦，是將我們的玉飾變賣和四處奔波所借貸的資金籌措而來。但芯菱卻因此更加惜福、更加苦學……

芯菱從小就是個體貼懂事的乖孩子，她出生時候的環境相當艱苦，也沒有兄弟姊妹能陪伴著她成長。經濟的壓力迫使我們得四處遷徙，讓她和我們過著早出晚歸攤販的生活。雖然我們很希望，但實在沒有能力送她去接受學前教育。她從小的生活就和一般孩子不一樣，嘗過家徒四壁的生活，大熱天時， 鐵皮屋內如同火爐般悶熱；下大雨時，雨水從天花板上滲漏，滴答滴答地響。在幾坪大的狹小空間裡，我們盡可能地擺張六十公分的正方形棋盤桌，讓芯菱得以讀書、寫字。我們買不起昂貴的學習書籍，只能藉著二手書來 自學。所幸，這些物質上的匱乏並不會讓芯菱妄自菲薄，而是讓她更加珍惜每次學習的機會。

我們從不認為她有傑出的天賦，從不要求她要爭第一，也沒想到她會擁有「電腦神童」的美譽。我們所注重的，是她的心中擁有「愛」，有一顆善良的心，說好話、做好事，盡全力幫助我們所能幫助的人。我們堅信心靈上的滿足與暖溫，足以勝過所有實質上的酬勞。每每看見需要幫助的人能得到 一些協助，對我們而言就是最好的福報。令我欣慰的是芯菱似乎很能體會箇中的道理，也許因為我們曾走過貧困的生活，所以感受特別深地。除了睡覺以外，她那小小的腦袋彷佛隨時隨地在運轉，不停地在思考著： 「我該怎麼做，才能幫助那些和我們有相同遭遇的人呢？」

芯菱從小對電腦特別有興趣，於是她苦學電腦多年後，終於在國小五年級時成立了『沈芯菱電子網站工作室』，希望能用一己之力賺取金錢，最初從幫助學校同學，到後來承製數十個公司網站，所得酬勞投入公益活動、關懷貧困者。而在芯菱國小六年級時候，便立志要架設全國首站─集國中 、國小全科目的免費教學網站，藉著無遠弗屆的網路，讓弱勢學子有一個免費的學習管道。除了心疼這些小朋友們缺乏資源外，芯菱更希望他們能和一般小孩一樣平等的擁有學習 機會。在架設教學網站期間，芯菱以優秀成續考取私立明星學校，但還是選擇了公立國中就讀，為的是節省差額學費來供應教學網的經費 。

架設網站過程中，她遇到許多想像不到的難關，也經歷了許多次的挫折和失敗，大多必須靠著自己一步一步的摸索出解答。在雲林的我們，時常遇到資源上的不足、架設過程的艱困，以及她不願意接受金錢的贊助，一人獨自承擔種種壓力 。這讓她的身影日漸消瘦，勞累逼出她眼球中的紅血絲；多方的壓力，讓她本該烏黑亮麗的秀髮，多出了許多不相稱的白髮。身為母親的我很難想像在她小小的身軀裡，到底還能裝進了多少壓力?

每次在漫長寂靜的夜裡，我們多麼想制止整晚都立在那兒的背影。但是一向聽話的她，此次卻非常的執著，帶著十分堅定的語氣，甚至是懇求，允許我們讓她把時間花在建置網站上 。我了解到，這對她才是真正的快樂，既然她已找到自己想做的，我又有什麼立場去阻止她呢？因此，我們將固執轉為支持，雖然我們對電腦一竅不通，但我們所能做，就是成為她精神上的支柱，為她在半夜裡泡一杯熱牛奶，在她失意難過時替她加油打氣。

經過多年的努力，現在的「安安」，已成了兩岸三地熱門的教學網站。毎日的持續管理、增添資料，建置數萬筆多元領域的教學資料，蛻變成一個大型的教學網站。 因為喜愛奉獻，芯菱做了許多公益之事，常為此而忙碌到深夜、耗費無數的心力。我們希望她的堅持和耕耘能獲得大家的肯定，並能幫助更多的弱勢學子們，以及永久免費服務於兩岸三地 ，和開發中國家的莘莘學子。

感念後來上天的眷顧，使她在14歲時就已賺進了 第一個100萬 ，並且將全部的金額都投入公益，至今也舉辦過數十個活動等公益行腳。她相信「做公益不能只是紙上談兵就可以，如果沒有金錢當作基石，也將寸步難行。但是公益也不是用金錢來衡量，而是心力、腦力、行動力的交織，所以每一個活動，我都盡力希望能做到最完美，用最低的支出，獲得最大的效應。」若你問她下一個願望，我想她會堅決的告訴你，要賺進更多的100萬，繼續致力於公益與公義之中！

我們自知女兒所學不多、能力有限，但「安安」就是她最真切、最無私的付出。在這裡懇請大家能好好利用此網站之外，也請把缺點等建議告訴芯菱，她將會虛心接受，以及努力改進。也願大家都能珍惜此免費資源，讓女兒的付出能更加值得 。她最希望看到的，就是有人能因此而得到知識、改變貧窮，這對我們而言，就是最大的福報。最後，感謝您們的關懷及鼓勵，「安安」因為有您們，才能一天比一天 的更加茁壯！

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