What if some machine never stops running to produce an unlimited clean power everlastingly! I think it will be amazing. Now, to accomplish the same task to produce clean eco-friendly power continuously an outsized Irish company, Steorn has developed an avant-garde perpetual motion machine-Orbo that produces free energy or energy from nothing.

Perpetual motion machine:

However, we have many other machines that produce energy via water, sun and air but this free energy producing device is so unique that it can also help to solve the world’s energy predicament one day.

How Orbo functions:

Firstly, to generate free energy it utilizes power of magnetism and functions completely on the theory of time variant magneto-mechanical interactions. Secondly, the mechanical energy produced can also be converted into electrical energy by exploiting standard generator technology and by amalgamating this technology directly with Orbo or by linking the mechanical output from Orbo to the generation technology.
But it is noteworthy that the effectiveness of such mechanical/electrical conversions methods are based on the components used and is also a function of size.

Cost to develop this ultramodern machine:

To develop this machine Steorn spent more than $5.7 million in Orbo and $160,000 to place its ad on The Economist. Now, after 10 months to check Steron claims, an unnamed panel of 22 scientists is testing this technology but we will get the results sometimes at the end of this year whereas to make this machine known publicly this energy producing magical device was demonstrated at East London’s Kinetica Museum on Wednesday and on Internet too.

And as according to Steorn CEO Sean McCarthy statement that he said in a promotional video on his company’s website that ‘I have no doubts about the results’, it seems that Steorn is so confident in its innovation that it will definitely put the name of this perpetual motion machine in golden words to produce clean and unlimited power from nothing, thanks Steorn.

UK goes ’smoke free’ from today with the ban that restricts smokers to fag in workspace and any other enclosed public place.The ban has been basically forwarded to protect passive smokers. Also, the ban can make people lessen up or give up smoking. Moreover, if the ban succeeds in its noble cause, it is good news for everyone and also for their sex life. Yes, if you remember smoking can give way to many sexual problems.

Smoking is bad for health and we all know that, but most of us don’t seem to care. Smoking has many bad effects on our physical health. It harms the lungs and also constricts blood flow. It is also a cause for late reactions and loss of patience. Apart from these physical and mental problems, fagging is particularly dangerous for men as it causes them difficulty in getting and maintaining an erection. If smoked for a long time it can also give rise to impotence or erectile dysfunction in men. For women who are pregnant smoking can lead to many dysfunctions in the baby and also cause a ‘dead birth.’ It also weakens our senses, especially taste and smell, which are an indispensable part of a good sex life.

These are enough reasons for you to quit smoking and if you still need more, keep on reading. No one likes yellow teeth, bad breath and smoke smell coming from the fingers and this is what smoking basically leaves you with. These things can as well put off your partner in the bed. Overall, smokers lead an unhealthy lifestyle which also makes them socially less acceptable. They also ignore food and have a bad, irregular diet system that results in poor health. Those who don’t fag lead better lifestyles, eat healthy diets and in turn also have better and enjoyable sex. You can always ask a friend or a family member to help you quit smoking and if you have a good will power, you alone are enough. You can also contact counselors or log on to the various websites, whose alone aim is to help people quit smoking. Gosmokefree and Quit are two of such websites.

As the French philosopher, Albert Schweitzer said, “Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside”, I hope you do too. Best of luck for your efforts to quit this deadly sin!

According to a top prosecutor from Panama, since July 2006 about 94 people in the region have died due to consumption of medicines tainted with diethylene glycol and some 293 more deaths are still under investigation. The prosecutor, Dimas Guevara has claimed that in spite of the fact that the tainted medicine has been cleared off the market in October, deaths continue.

The officials have confirmed 51 deaths due to the tainted medicine and it is quite clear that the number has been increasing. The chemical, diethylene glycol, commonly used in antifreeze was found to be present in medicines like antihistamine tablets, calamine lotion, cough syrup and rash ointment. These medicines were manufactured in a government laboratory in Panama itself.

However, the investigations revealed that the chemical came from a Chinese company, which sold it to a Spanish company labeled as a 99.5% pure glycerin. The company in turn sold it to Panama’s Medicom SA that sold it to the laboratory. For conducting the investigation, officials also had to dig up the corpses of victims who had died last year. Later, the tests confirmed that they were killed by the contaminated medicines.

In connection with the deaths, three Medicom executives are facing charges for crimes against public health. Well, China badly needs to improve its image.

MIT biochemists have identified a molecular mechanism behind fear, and successfully cured it in mice, according to an article in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Researchers from MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory hope that their work could lead to the first drug to treat the millions of adults who suffer each year from persistent, debilitating fears - including hundreds of soldiers returning from conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Inhibiting a kinase, an enzyme that change proteins, called Cdk5 facilitates the extinction of fear learned in a particular context, Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and colleagues showed.

Conversely, the learned fear persisted when the kinase's activity was increased in the hippocampus, the brain's center for storing memories, the scientists found.

Cdk5, paired with the protein p35, helps new brain cells, or neurons, form and migrate to their correct positions during early brain development, and the MIT researchers looked at how Cdk5 affects the ability to form and eliminate fear-related memories.

"Remarkably, inhibiting Cdk5 facilitated extinction of learned fear in mice," Tsai said. "This data points to a promising therapeutic avenue to treat emotional disorders and raises hope for patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or phobia."

Emotional disorders such as post-traumatic stress and panic attacks stem from the inability of the brain to stop experiencing the fear associated with a specific incident or series of incidents.

For some people, upsetting memories of traumatic events do not go away on their own, or may even get worse over time, severely affecting their lives.

A study conducted by the Army in 2004 found that one in eight soldiers returning from Iraq reported symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

According to the National Center for PTSD in the United States, around eight percent of the population will have PTSD symptoms at some point in their lives. Some 5.2 million adults have PTSD during a given year, the center reports.

In the current research, genetically engineered mice received mild foot shocks in a certain environment and were re-exposed to the same environment without the foot shock.

The team found that mice with increased levels of Cdk5 activity had more trouble letting go of the memory of the foot shock and continued to freeze in fear.

The reverse was also true: in mice whose Cdk5 activity was inhibited, the bad memory of the shocks disappeared when the mice learned that they no longer needed to fear the environment where the foot shocks had once occurred.

"In our study, we employ mice to show that extinction of learned fear depends on counteracting components of a molecular pathway involving the protein kinase Cdk5," Tsai concluded. "We found that Cdk5 activity prevents extinction, at least in part by negatively affecting the activity of another key kinase."

Child Bride (credit: VIjay Pandey)

Seetha, a 25 year old, was married to Ram and lived with his parents in a rural village in India. She was not from a wealthy family and her parents promised her in laws to give her dowry later. Days became months and months became years. Her in laws were restless about the fact that dowry was late and they ill-treated her. Even her husband did not have a say. One day, she was murdered. She had paid the dowry with her life.

This is not a rare incident in India, but they are not publicised. Dowry is a payment made to a woman’s in-laws upon her engagement or marriage as a gift to her new family. It is a common thing to exceed dowries to the family’s annual income. According to official crime statistics in India, 6,822 women were killed in 2002 because of such violence. Small community studies have also indicated that dowry demands have played an important role in women being burned to death and in deaths of women labelled as suicides.

Dowry murder is just one example where traditions serve badly for women. According to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) report these violations include female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM), dowry murder, so-called “honour killings,” and early marriage. They lead to death, disabilities, and physical and psychological dysfunction for millions of women annually. These victims are found mainly in the Africa, South Asian and the Middle East.

Film makers like Deepa Mehtha have attempted to break the conspiracy of silence by exposing this social malady in their works. In her Oscar nominate film ‘Water’, one gets a glimpse of the widows who were kept apart for the sake of the traditions. The main character in the film Chuyiya, a seven-year-old widow, tells the whole world about the tragedy of early marriage system in India.

Women in these societies are frustrated by the lack of progress made in tackling these social ills.

"It is a pity that no proper action is taken to stop violations," said Meera from India.

Many people in the West are unaware of the scale of the problem. Those who had heard about these abuses labelled them as the extreme cases, but pointed out that women in US and Europe are not immune to discrimination in the name of tradition.

“These are extreme examples,” Andrea from USA said. “Many people do not realize that even certain Western traditions hurt women. For example, I do not intend on changing my last name when I get married. If you research the origin of this tradition, you will be shocked at the misogyny. I love my last name; it represents my amazing family and all their struggles. Some say, well don't you want your family to be united? Of course, in Italy, women don't change their last name; does that mean their family is not a unit?”

The traditionalists are offering stiff resistance to bringing about social change that would lead to the making the situation better. Women continue to be harassed, exploited, and murdered, all in the name of tradition.

Designer/Company: Sunman Kwon from Hongik University
Embedded Technology: Finger touching wearable mobile device

This new technological advancement would theoretically convert your hand into a cell phone.

Researcher, Sunman Kwon from Hongik University, has been able to manufacture a “finger touching wearable mobile device” that enables you to make calls just as if we do through a cell phone. This idea is not at all bad as you may have a 3.5G and 4G technology readily available.