The Future Is Near

This is exciting news.

Electric passenger cars would solve so many large problems. However, range has been an issue. The best only last for about 150 – 200 miles between charges. A charge on a home charger can take up to 8 hours.

Enter JFE Engineering with an industrial strength charger that can give a small EV an 50% charge in just three minutes. You read that right, five minutes. About the time it takes to get gas.

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If that news wasn’t good enough, hold on. MIT has just licensed battery technology to a private firm. The technology uses carbon nanotubes which can make the batteries store 5 times as much energy as a conventional ultracapacitor.

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Harvard Expert: Lose The Cow’s Milk

Picture of pitcher of milk and a glass of milk

The Los Angeles Times recently published an article about how many mainstream experts, health advocacy groups and scientists are criticizing the USDA Dietary Guidelines. Surprisingly, these non-vegan mainstream experts had a big problem with the guidelines recommending that Americans drink even more cow’s milk:

DR. WALTER C. WILLETT
Chairman of the Department of Nutrition
Harvard School of Public Health (Boston)
Author, “Eat, Drink and Be Healthy”

Also, the recommendation for three servings of milk per day is not justified and is likely to cause harm to some people. The primary justification is bone health and reduction of fractures. However, prospective studies and randomized trials have consistently shown no relation between milk intake and risk of fractures. On the other hand, many studies have shown a relation between high milk intake and risk of fatal or metastatic prostate cancer, and this can be explained by the fact that milk intake increases blood levels of IGF-1, a growth-promoting hormone. The justification for drinking three glasses of milk per day on the basis of increasing potassium intake is also not valid as the extra calories, even with low-fat milk, would easily counterbalance the benefit of the extra potassium. Also, the recommendation for people of all ages to drink three servings of milk per day is very radical and would double dairy production if adopted; this would have huge environmental impacts that would need to be considered.

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Inspirational Article

I remember reading an article last year about an orphaned Indian boy who worked in a factory and who was robbed of his life savings by a police officer. More disturbingly, those acts are not done by “monsters”, but by ordinary desperate people.

Well, the same environment has produced an inspirational act that is just the opposite.

Read about Khimjibhai Prajapati. A 64 year old beggar who used money he collected to buy clothing for 11 poor, hearing impaired and speech impaired girls at a school for the deaf.

So why did he give alms to the unfortunate children at the school? Khimjibhai said, “I just need two meals a day and some money to send back to my ailing wife in Rajkot to cure her ulcers and lung infection. Apart from this, whatever I earn I use to buy food for poor, hungry people. Since a long time I wished to do something for girls and I am happy to donate for them”.

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