Does The North Atlantic Right Whale Face Extinction?

Mortality due to human activities

The North Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis had been hunted intensively by human for commercial purposes.

The North Atlantic right whales have been hunted down for long time period, around 40 years or from 1890 to 1930. Hunting for their:

- meat

- oil

- baleen

Whaling license is terminated since 1930, and even USA government prohibits individuals or institution or human vessels to approach North Atlantic right whale within 457 m or 1500 ft distance. 

However, whale population is not recovered as normal as before 1890. Eubalaena glacialis is about 411 only in current estimation.

Surprisingly, mature female is predicted 90 to 100 only. No breeding was detected for last year, 2018.

Whales in the ocean (credit to Google)

Low breeding rate combined with mortality due to human activities such as ship strikes and entanglement, lead whales to nearly in extinction phase.

The North Atlantic right whale is considered as most endangered species compared to other whales.

Luckily, scientists have been detected totally 7 whale’s babies this year (2019), included 3 in recent weeks.

The mature whales come to breeding ground in coast off Georgia and Florida during winter season. Temperature is quite higher in southern part compared to northern part of America.

In spring and summer, whales and their calves goes back to their feeding ground in New England, Northern America, includes Canada.

Unfortunately, it is predicted that the North Atlantic right whales would extinct by next 20 years if these things continue to happen:

- High mortality of whales due to human activities.

- Lower breeding rate

Human activities included, but not limited to:

- entanglement of fishing gear

- ship strikes

- vessel noises

Have You an idea to prevent the North Atlantic Right Whale from extinction? 

Is Avocado Considered as a Super Food?

Avocado, medium and small sizes

Avocado is one of my favorites food. I eat the fruit simply by mixing it (avocado’s flesh) with condensed milk (produced by Nestle).

Sometimes, I mixed avocado flesh, milk (chocolate condensed milk) and ice cubed altogether, by using electrical mixer, like making a juice drink.

The price is a quite little bit expensive compared to other fruit for me. A medium size for a whole avocado cost US$ 3 (£ 2.67).

Flesh of avocado, look like a butter

Avocado flesh is creamy and butterly texture. If we eat first time, the taste is little bit bitter, actually mild sweet, especially when we eat ripe fruit.

We slice, dice or cube the avocado flesh. The medium size could weight around 150 gram or 1/3 pound in serving.

Small size of avocados

Is Avocado Considered as a Super Food? Yes, it is because it riches of nutrients:

-Fibre, potassium, Omega 3, magnesium and folic acid

-Vitamints: A, B, C, D, E and K

-Copper and iron

-Mono saturated fat, very few fruit contain this nutrient.

A "good fat" in avocado could reduce bad cholesterol level, thus lower the risk of stroke and heart attack. 

There many other health benefit by eating avocado regularly as said by nutritionists.

Have you ever tasted avocado?

Why Wearing Hat Makes You are Losing Your Hair?

Losing hair, credit to ianicsolutions.com

There are at least two contradict opinions about effect of wearing hat to fall the hair. First, no, not wearing hat make you losing your hair. There is no effect as long as there is no friction between hat and hair.

Second opinion that tight hat and action to rub or pull it on head cause physical tension on hair, thus slowly lead to hair losing.

Another opinion, there is in-direct effect of wearing hat on hair losing in a such way that dirty hat attracts bacteria and fungi to infect head skin.

To avoid scalp infection, hat should be cleaned and rotated regularly.

Many people using a specific shampoo and conditioner to strengthens their hair in order to prevent the hair breakage and losing.

Tight hat is one reason only to lose hair, you may read article about 10 reasons of losing hair: 10 reasons why you might be losing hair

Does “Heart Failure” Mean Our Heart Stop Pumping Blood?

Illustration between healthy heart and heart failure,

credit to FamilyDoctor.org

We might hear the term of “Heart Failure,” but it does not mean that our heart fail (totally fail) to pump the blood to all organ of our body.

It is a “medical term” refer to heart not in optimal function as its should be.

Another term for heart failure is a “congestive heart failure.” A few of early signs for heart failure that you feel fatigue and short of breathing.

High blood pressure may make heart gradually too weak to pump efficiently over time.

Symptoms, causes and treatments of heart failure may be read in the following article: Congestive Heart Failure: Symptoms, Causes, Treatments

Why are Rich People Going to Shoplift?

Kim Kardashian once shoplifted, credit to Reuters

Many famous and rich people have been shoplifted. Some of them have net worth around US$ 400 million, and a few closes to 1 billion US dollar.

The cost of items their stolen from just a couple buck to no more than 5 thousand dollars. Worthless compared to their hundred of million assets.

Things are taken, included: t-shirt, magazine, pack of batteries, $7 tube of lip gloss, snacks, clothes, sun glasses and a necklace.

They shoplifted in the super center or stores such as Walmart, K-Mart, Marshal, boutique and Jewelry shops.

You may read or listening or watching recently news that a rich man from Florida, Andrew Lippi, 59 years old was charged for stealing of US$ 300 (£ 230) goods (light bulbs and a coffee maker) from K-Mart.

Surprisingly, Andrew Lippi bought a private island estate cost US$ 8 millions (£ 6.13 million) few weeks early, before he did shoplift. In addition, he own a resort with one night rent for US$ 1800 (£ 1600).

We may wonder that: Why are Rich People Going to Shoplift?

The simple answer is called as a sense of “Poverty consciousness.” It is mean that the high net worth individuals feel “never having enough” and they worry to loss something they have.

In the shoplifting cases, rich people thought that they “never having enough” and sense to have everything, even they feel entitle to have children’s candies by stealing.

What do you think?

Do you Know the Company Hires Anyone who Applied?

Greyston Bakery, credit to Mann Advisors

It is normal that an open position for a job will be applied by several applicants. A position with higher salary and offered by established companies attract hundred of candidates.

Job selection goes through several processes, include interview, drug tests and background checks. Many companies need to look applicant skills and experienced.

However, Greyston Bakery locates in Riverdale, New York, developed the system called “Open Hiring.” Every one can sign up application, then wait until a job position available.

Company will call applicant based on who applied first. Call means ready to work immediately. Uniquely, the company has slogan: “we don’t hire people to bake brownies, we bake brownies to hire people.”

For details, please read following article: This company hired anyone who applied. Now it’s starting a movement.

Is Prostate Cancer Inherited Genetically?

Illustration of prostate cancer and genetic, credit to Invitae

There are many factors that believed to increase the risk to get prostate cancer; some of them are genetics, diet, age, race, lifestyle, obesity and Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). 

From genetic view point, prostate cancer is highly heritable; the inherited risk of prostate cancer has been estimated to be as high as 60%. 

Men diagnosed with prostate cancer are highly probably coming from close relative (a father or a brother) with prostate cancers. 

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2016) suggested that a man with one close relative with prostate cancer is twice as likely to develop cancer.

Then, If two close male relatives are affected, the risk of developing prostate cancer is increased five-fold compared to man with no family members diagnosed.

There are several hundred genes implicate to different stages of Prostate Cancer. 

Maqungo et al, (2011) informed that South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of the Western Cape has developed database called as Dragon Database of Genes associated with Prostate Cancer (DDPC). 

Data were collected from sources of around the world. Some of genes connected to prostate cancers are BRCA1, BRCA2, and HOXB13. 

If these genes have mutated due to un-known reasons, men will have a higher risk of developing prostate cancer and, in some cases, other cancers during their lifetimes.

References

Maqungo, M., Kaur, M., Kwofie, SK., Radovanovic, A., Schaefer, U., Schmeier, S., Oppon, E., Christoffels, A., and Bajic, VB. 2011. DDPC: Dragon Database of Genes associated with Prostate Cancer. Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Jan; 39(Database issue): D980–D985. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3013759/

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. 2016. Inherited Risk for Prostate Cancer. Retrieved from https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/risk-assessment-screening/hereditary-genetics/genetic-counseling/inherited-risk-prostate