YouTube users now upload an hour of video to the site every second – making a decade of video every day.
Videos on the site are viewed four billion times every day – a rise of 25 per cent in the last eight months.
The amount of video uploaded to the site has multiplied tenfold in just four years.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2091747/YouTube-users-upload-hour-video-second.html#ixzz1n6hPHf9Z
Every year we’re enthralled by the smallest things among us, as scientists capture stunningly beautiful and bizarre images under the microscope. For the first time, the people who bring us the annual Small World Microphotography Competition have caught the world of the tiny on tape.
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/video-gallery-most-amazing-movies-minuscule-world
Over the past few years I’ve spent long weeknights and weekends glued to the LCD fishing for clinical pearls, as it were, for the GreenMedInfo.com project. Admittedly, my eyes have been getting a bit “fried,” so I’ve been crossing my fingers in the hopes of finding something that can help reduce the damage associated with long-term exposure. I know I’m not alone here, as millions of folks out there are facing the same challenge, which makes me even happier to report that I have finally found something truly “evidence-based” that may help!
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/how-keep-your-computer-screen-frying-your-eyes
WASHINGTON—Events in China last week have cast a shadow over the meeting of People’s Republic of China Vice Chairman Xi Jinping with President Obama on Tuesday, and Xi and the U.S. government are being challenged to address atrocities going on in China. During a failed attempt to defect, a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official may have provided documentary evidence to U.S. consular officials of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. The Chinese regime routinely denies engaging in forced organ harvesting of prisoners.
Beauty and body care products are continually being ousted as toxin-containing health destroyers. A recent study has added further cause for alarm, finding that 400 shades of popular lipstick contained lead. Of course the FDA is assuring consumers that this lead exposure is completely safe, failing to act once more regarding serious health threats lurking in consumer products. The FDA said that lipstick is not meant to be ingested, and is for topical use only. Therefore, it is ‘completely safe’.
Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/400-popular-lipstick-shades-found-to-contain-lead/#ixzz1mjYE4i4W
England’s chief medical officer, Dame Sally Davies, is concerned that young children and some adults are not getting enough vitamin D. According to the BBC, she is to contact medical professionals about government guidelines which recommend that some groups, including under-fives, may require daily vitamin D supplements.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/24/vitamin-d-awareness-doctors
