27 February, 2020

Beware – Online Marketplaces Are Dangerous

Most dangerous items:
  • USB chargers
  • Plastic toys
  • Children's clothing
  • Smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms that don't work
  • Teeth whitening products
66% of them fail EU safety laws with possible consequences such as electric shock, fire, or suffocation, the BEUC network says.
Read more about BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation (from the French name Bureau Europรฉen des Unions de Consommateurs, "European Bureau of Consumers' Unions") - official website here.

16 February, 2020

Download Graphene Manufacturing Handbook Funded by the European Union

Graphene is a new wonder material, but producing it was a problem. Problem is now solved - "Graphene Flagship" publishes handbook of graphene manufacturing, you can download it here: http://bit.ly/graphenewhitebook

About Graphene
Batteries, Space Elevator, desalination process, CPUs – they could all run on graphene in the near future.

About Graphene Flagship
With a budget of €1 billion, the Graphene Flagship represents a new form of joint, coordinated research on an unprecedented scale, forming Europe's biggest ever research initiative.
https://graphene-flagship.eu/

2020 Doomsday Clock Closer Than Ever

Picked quotes from around the world:
Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers—nuclear war and climate change—that are compounded by a threat multiplier
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
We'd never seen a temperature this high in Antarctica
Brazilian scientist Carlos Schaefer
The main reason for this (global emergency) declaration (of COVID-19) is not because of what is happening in China, but because of what is happening in other countries. Our (WHO) greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems
Tedros Adhanom, Director-General of the World Health Organization

2020 Doomsday Clock Closer than ever: It is 100 seconds to midnight


My solution

Please stop with all inconsiderate movements.
This article will make you think: Coronavirus or antibiotic resistance: Our appetite for animals (wild and domestic) poses big disease risks by Laura H. Kahn