A family was able to grow over 7000 pounds of purely organic food on 1/10^th of an acre in just one year – the output was able to cater the family’s diet by ninety percent. They were able to sell the extra produce for over 20 grands while they spent only $2 per day on each person on kitchen staples. This record-breaking organic production is setting an example around the world.

The family is located only at a 15 minutes’ drive from Los Angeles Downtown. This agricultural paradise was made on just a vacant lot in the city.  

What makes their organic produce so abundant? It’s the amazing permaculture method of growing agricultural garden with a natural process of creating a soil rich in friendly bacteria and nutrients.

The main difference between permaculture and other landscaping methods is that it is not just a set of practical methods, it is a way of thinking and adapting to a certain ecology. Each garden, each family, and each community is different – so permaculture is based on observation and local knowledge.

Permaculture is a system of principles of social and agricultural design whose work philosophy is to work for nature. To do this, it is based on its observation and uses systemic thinking, i.e.  it treats the different elements that make up the system as part of a whole.

The permaculture design system achieves the integration of the landscape with the people who inhabit it by providing them with their materials and non-materials in a sustainable way. Permaculture covers many aspects as it includes techniques of ecological design, ecological engineering, environmental design, management and creation of aquatic resources, sustainable architecture, the design of agricultural systems and conservation and self-maintained habitats modeled from natural ecosystems. The philosophy of permaculture incorporates ideas and practices of all time. It makes use of these systems and incorporates them into a broader framework to create sustainable human ecosystems.

5G is basically the fifth generation of mobile technology, which implies several benefits for users, such as the increase in browsing speeds, transmission and faster downloading of information. It also offers better connectivity, greater capacity and reduction in latency (time it takes for devices to communicate with each other).

These substantial technological improvements are key in integrated applications, such as robotics, autonomous driving cars and medical devices, whose pillar will be the use of higher frequency bandwidths of the radiofrequency spectrum.

In the US, the Federal Communications Commission has auctioned the first 28 gigahertz (GHz) bandwidth, which will form the 5G network, with higher bandwidth auctions scheduled for later this year.

In parallel, the use of electromagnetic radiation by this technology has rekindled concerns about its potential damage to human health.

The established biological effect of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) is the increase in temperature of tissues exposed to high doses of the same, which can cause burns. But mobile devices emit low levels of RF-EMF.

 According to IARC: RF-EMF is "possibly carcinogenic to humans".

A group of 30 international scientists from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) - part of the WHO - met to assess the risk of developing cancer as a result of RF-EMF exposure of the cell phone, specifically glioma, a cancer of the central nervous system. Their research was published in The Lancet Oncology, whose conclusion was that in view of the limited evidence in humans and experimental animals, it classified the RF-EMF as "possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B)", into which they enter various substances for everyday use, including some polluting foods and gases.

The high frequency radiations of the 5G technology have a shorter range of range than the low frequency waves – dense networks that allow the transmission of the RF-EMF spectrum should be built, which will lead to the emergence of new base stations all over the world.

A history of family suffering from epilepsy that is repeated thousands of times in the world, but where very few dare to replace drugs with medical cannabis. The inefficiency and side effects of some traditional medications and treatments of this disease is the last resort for most people.

Jayden David was a healthy child when he was born, always smiling – around his fourth month of age everything began to change. The child began to experience abnormal, excessive and synchronous neuronal activity in his brain. It suddenly made him start experiencing epileptic seizures.

His parents consulted doctors and specialists and they tried to find a way to eliminate the symptoms of the baby with the prescription of drugs. That was the beginning of a long, dark and winding path of little David Jayden towards the pills.

Even the doctors' good intentions could not dominate the violent attacks – pharmaceutical science did not work out. The large number of drugs to fight seizures never allowed the child's body to heal in an innate way. With each visit to the doctor more medications were prescribed, but the seizures never disappeared and his condition worsened, while his small body was forced to fight the side effects of several medications.

None of the pharmaceuticals helped. The fight changed everything for the family. Little David Jayden grew up taking up to 22 prescription medications a day. He even became addicted to a horrible class of medications called benzodiazepines. The drugs made Jayden experience hallucinations and attacks of screaming and insomnia.

His condition varied from uncontrolled jerky movements, to a momentary loss of consciousness. It was difficult to differentiate the disease from an attack from a side effect. Children who experience these attacks of abnormal neuronal activity are labeled as having a predisposition to epilepsy, but very little research actually investigates what causes this abnormal neuronal activity in the brain. They wondered if the aluminum adjuvant was involved, causing the seizures to start and persist. Perhaps the child had a predisposition to the negative effects of aluminum on his activity of neurons in the brain.

As soon as the CBD was administered, the child's constant seizures stopped. The father then began to take his son away from prescription medications. With the use of CBD oil, the child went from taking 22 pills a day and having constant seizures, to only two pills a day, in addition to regaining control of his physical body and mood.

Manoj Bhargava has a plan to bring electricity to houses that do not have access to the electricity grid, using stationary bicycles. He believes that technology could affect "billions" of homes around the world but especially in India. He has created an exercise bike, equipped with batteries capable of feeding millions of homes around the world without access to electricity.

Bhargava plans to distribute 10,000 bicycles in Indian homes without electricity, so that with only one hour pedaling, homeowners will be able to store enough energy to power the house's basic lights and electrical appliances throughout the day without causing any pollution.

"Electricity is the biggest revitalizer that exists, and we have kept half of the world without it," says Bhargava in the documentary. "This allows all these people who have not been part of the Industrial Revolution to be part of a productive society."

According to Bhargava, these bicycles will be manufactured in India but they will not be free, because people do not take care of something that is free. Apart from daily energy production, other uses for bicycles could be to provide reserve energy during storms or other natural disasters. In a documentary called “Billions in Change” the technological works he is creating with his company are highlighted.

"This is the cheapest and most practical way to get electricity worldwide," Bhargava said. “The important thing is to get the poor out of poverty. They are still poor because they have no energy. That is one of the most basic things after water. Those are the two most important things that a poor person really needs.”

Will this guy really be? After all, this interview closely follows a documentary about himself and his new engineering lab that was released on Monday. He talks about giving away everything (but then he doesn't), but he has also signed the Giving Pledge by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.

In addition to trying to solve the world's energy supply problems, Manoj Bhargava and his team are working on water desalination projects, etc.

According to the author and marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, living near water can help you promote your level of happiness, satisfaction with life and mental health. It could be any water body, such as sea, river, lake or ocean. He wrote everything in his book, Blue Mind.

Much has been romanticized in movies and television series about the beautiful images and lifestyle living by the sea and the happiness associated with it, but is there any truth in this?

According to marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, living near a large body of water, be it a river, the sea or a lake, improves our happiness level and mental health.

The author points out that we enter a state of meditation just by being near, in or under water. It is the perfect antidote for the super connected life we ​​lead today.

Water helps raise the level of happiness because it "lowers levels of stress and anxiety, and increases the sense of well-being and happiness. In addition, it slows the heart rate and breathing, increases safety and improves exercise performance. Therapists now seek to work with water to treat addictions, anxiety disorders, autism and other things”, says Nichols.

For this reason, we are probably willing to pay more for a room with an ocean view, or a house near a lake. Being near the water also increases people's creativity and conversation skills, and helps us sleep better.

Even if you’re in a reverie about travelling around the world visiting gorgeous islands with warm sand and crystal blue water, it can give you a sense of calm and serenity. Therefore, it shouldn’t surprise you that sitting next to a pristine body of water really has some pretty fantastic wellness benefits.

As Nichols pointed out, research demonstrates his theory that being close to water can help us all achieve "high and sustained happiness."

"There is some research that says people can sleep better when they are adjacent to nature," said W. Christopher Winter, MD, author of The Sleep Solution. "It is not surprising that sleeping machines always have the sounds of rain, ocean or a flowing river."

The founder and CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos lost his title as the richest man in the world after the closing of the stock markets.

Amazon shares fell 7% after stock markets closed, dropping Jeff Bezos' fortune to $ 103.9 billion. He becomes the second richest man on the planet, behind the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, whose fortune is estimated at $ 105.7 billion.

Jeff Bezos had become the biggest fortune on the planet in 2018, also establishing himself as the first "centimillionaire" to appear in the Forbes 400 ranking with $ 160 billion, dethroning Bill Gates, who held the first place in 24 years.

But the fall of the fortune of the CEO of Amazon is not entirely due to the decline in the value of the shares of his company. Jeff Bezos also transferred a quarter of his Amazon assets to MacKenzie Bezos, his ex-wife, as part of their divorce deal earlier this year. MacKenzie Bezos is now at the head of a fortune of $32.7 billion and is now one of the 20 richest personalities in the world.

After the stock market closed, Amazon stocks lost almost 9% in value $ 1,624 in just 20 minutes. Since then, the online trading giant has rebounded slightly, rising to $ 1,657 per share.

The company has said it is investing heavily in logistics and its delivery infrastructure, with the goal of making delivery accessible in one business day to all Amazon Prime members. In July, Amazon announced it had spent "a little" more than the $ 800 million expected in the second quarter for delivery in 24 hours. The group does not want to reveal how much it invested in the third quarter. Nevertheless, Brian Olsavsky, the chief financial officer of Amazon, revealed Thursday that the company was planning to invest $ 1.5 billion in the fourth quarter, still to finance delivery in a business day.

Bill Gates appeared in the very first billionaire Forbes ranking in 1987, with a net worth of $ 1.25 billion. He later joined the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans in 1998, at the head of a $ 1.6 billion fortune, one year after Amazon's IPO.

Water is essential for the life of human beings. For that reason, many space trips claim to find a planet that contains that coveted liquid. It doesn't hurt to think of a plan B in case we are forced to leave Earth in the future.

Although there is a lot of water on our planet, some countries have more difficulties than others to obtain it. One such example is the African continent, shaken for decades by scarcity.

Naturally, lack of water also means less hygiene and more diseases, which ends up leading to deaths. It’s a critical situation that could be solved by converting sea salt water into drinking water – the problem is that it is usually a very expensive process.

Luckily, a nonprofit organization has devised a system that performs that conversion using solar energy, which is much more economical and efficient. Could it be the solution for Africa?

GivePower, a non-profit organization, has built in Kiunga (Kenya) an installation capable of generating 75,000 liters of drinking water per day, which serves to supply fresh water to approximately 35,000 people.

To achieve this, the NGO uses advanced filtration systems and a new desalination technology that uses solar energy – it needs to deploy solar farms in the place.

From the foundation they explain that their process produces, in comparison with the traditional water wells, a much larger quantity of water with greater quality, all in a shorter period of time and betting on renewable energies. This which implies a cost less than any other desalination system.

The Kiunga project is not the first or the last of GivePower, since they have already led similar initiatives in Puerto Rico, Congo or Haiti. On their website they claim to have brought clean and renewable energy to more than 2,650 schools in 17 countries and changed the lives of more than 400,000 people.

Known as 'the man with the golden arm', James Harrison, an 81-year-old Australian, donated almost every week for the past 60 years, and recently he "retired," closing a life-saving story. of more than 2.4 million babies.

In full knowledge of the exceptional value of his blood, Harrison donated 1,100 times, and with this he helped develop the Anti-D injection, a key medicine in the fight against Rhesus disease, since his blood plasma contains unique antibodies.

According to the Australian Red Cross Service, until 1967, thousands of women experienced abortions and babies were born with brain damage for unknown reasons, but then it was known that the disease that afflicted them was Rhesus disease. It is a blood disorder in which the blood of the pregnant woman (Rh negative) attacks the red blood cells of her fetus (Rh positive, inherited from the father), causing brain damage or death.

Thanks to Harrison, Australia was one of the first countries to discover a blood donor with the antibody that allowed them to develop the Anti-D injection, which prevents women with Rh-negative blood from developing RhD antibodies during pregnancy.

The Australian attributes that the uniqueness of his blood is due to the 13 units of blood plasma he received as a donation, when he was only 14 years old, due to an operation in which a lung was removed.

"When I left the operation, or a couple of days later, my father explained to me what had happened. He said that I had received 13 units of blood and that unknown people had saved my life. He himself was a donor, so he I said that when I was old enough, I would become a blood donor, " Harrison said, who also benefited from his donation to have his own daughter receive the Anti-D vaccine.

For his thousands of donated units, and for the millions of lives he saved, James Harrison received the Medal of the Order of Australia and is considered a national hero in his country.

Back in the early twentieth century, the German scientist Otto Warburg discovered that cancer cells produce energy by very fast glycolysis (breaking down glucose without oxygen to produce lactic acid or lactate as one of the products). But real energy (in the form of ATP molecules) is obtained very little, and about 70 percent of glucose is spent on the production of lactate.

In the cells of a rapidly developing cancerous tumor, the level of glycolysis can be 200 times higher than in normal tissues. A future Nobel Prize winner suggested that it is this metabolic disorder that is the main cause of cancer.

Today, science knows that cancer causes mutations in certain genes, and it is from this side that most researchers are now trying to approach the problem, undeservedly pushing older methods to the background.

The fact is that although the Warburg effect is still widely used to detect tumors, its role in the development of cancer remained unclear. But now the results of a new study finally shed light on how sugar nourishes cancer cells, making treatment difficult.

In 2008, a coalition of Dutch and Belgian universities began their great work to find out why a tumor converts much more sugar into lactate than healthy cells. In particular, scientists were looking for a connection between glucose and the Ras gene family, errors in which lead to tumor development and the formation of metastases.

Professor Johan Teveleyn of the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) and his colleagues have worked with yeast cultures, which, as well as people, have the Ras genes. Researchers have chosen primitive unicellular organisms so as not to be distracted by the numerous regulatory processes that take place in mammalian cells.

As reported in an article published in the journal Nature Communications, the breakdown of sugar in yeast and cancer cells occurs stepwise through the formation of a substance called fructose 1,6-bisphosphate. During high-speed glycolysis, it accumulates a lot, and it activates Ras-proteins, which stimulate enhanced reproduction of both types of cells.

The authors of the work also believe that the results of their research not only hint at the need for changes in the diet of cancer patients, but also once again indicate the danger of sugar consumption in general.

A group of scientists from the UK conducted an experiment that showed that if a person does exercise before breakfast, he can burn 20% more fat tissue. Sports in the morning on an empty stomach not only increases the effectiveness of training, but also reduces appetite during the day. Meanwhile, exposing yourself to such physical exertion still needs to be done with caution.

The study, published in the British Journal of Nutrition, was led by Dr. Emma Stevenson and graduate student Javier Gonzalez of the University of Northumbria. They asked 12 physically active male volunteers to perform treadmill exercises at 10 a.m. At the same time, some participants did this on an empty stomach, while others did it after breakfast.

After classes, all participants were offered a restorative milkshake – for lunch, subjects were asked to eat pasta. They had to be eaten until saturation was felt. Then the scientists calculated the number of calories that the participants received, as well as the calories that they burned in the morning on a sports simulator - a treadmill.

Researchers found that those who ran on an empty stomach did not seek to eat more during the day. Their appetite did not increase, despite the fact that they did not have breakfast.

The same participants burned 20% more adipose tissue compared to other subjects.

Scientists have come to the conclusion that doing exercises on an empty stomach provides the most desirable result for those who want to lose weight and keep fit.

“We already knew that if a person plays sports on an empty stomach, then during exercise, he burns more adipose tissue. We wanted to find out if the subjects will need more food during the day to offset the costs, says Mr. Gonzalez to RBC daily. - As it turned out, nothing of the kind happens. We plan to continue work on the study in the future, as we received data in one day. Now it remains to be seen whether our conclusions are valid for a longer period - a week and a month.”