One thing I noticed this week in juxtaposition to last week was that there were far fewer articles about the ISIS crisis. However, there were articles about how girls are going over to marry into ISIS, and how ISIS defaced a lot of valued historical artifacts.
Since we focused on a lot of the negative last week, I'd like to talk about the more positive articles I saw this time around. According to Nadrian Canadian scientists have found a cure for Ebola! In monkeys at least. However, since monkey's are closely/ish related to humans, this could bridge the way to a cure for us, which would make that particular virus being a global pandemic less of a threat.
Another article is from Gabe, with good news about a lagoon cited power plant in the U.K. somewhere. Since lagoons are by the sea, they have tides, which is precisely what this power plant derives it's energy from. The lagoon is circled by a large wall, and when it comes to high and low tide, a gate opens and the water comes rushing in or out. This movement is how 8% of the U.K.'s clean energy is generated. Cool right?
The third and final article with good news in it was Stanley's about Bangladesh's vertical roof gardens. Because Bangladesh has a huge flooding problem they have really inadequate soil that is pretty useless for growing crops in. How do you fix that? Cheap, affordable vertical standing plant pots. Totally something large cities could use for community gardens on top of apartment complexes.
So thoes are the more positive articles I saw this week. Hope to see more next time.
Since we focused on a lot of the negative last week, I'd like to talk about the more positive articles I saw this time around. According to Nadrian Canadian scientists have found a cure for Ebola! In monkeys at least. However, since monkey's are closely/ish related to humans, this could bridge the way to a cure for us, which would make that particular virus being a global pandemic less of a threat.
Another article is from Gabe, with good news about a lagoon cited power plant in the U.K. somewhere. Since lagoons are by the sea, they have tides, which is precisely what this power plant derives it's energy from. The lagoon is circled by a large wall, and when it comes to high and low tide, a gate opens and the water comes rushing in or out. This movement is how 8% of the U.K.'s clean energy is generated. Cool right?
The third and final article with good news in it was Stanley's about Bangladesh's vertical roof gardens. Because Bangladesh has a huge flooding problem they have really inadequate soil that is pretty useless for growing crops in. How do you fix that? Cheap, affordable vertical standing plant pots. Totally something large cities could use for community gardens on top of apartment complexes.
So thoes are the more positive articles I saw this week. Hope to see more next time.
Great blog m8. Your word choice was simple, but it really set the mood of the articles and clearly explained them. I like that your reflections on others' work also includes your narrative voice!
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