NEWS: HOGWARTS IS HERE! RESEARCHERS REVEAL REAL-LIFE INVISIBILITY CLOAK

According to an article of the Daily Mail, researchers from arround the world are trying to create an invisibility cloak inspired by the invisible cloak from Harry Potter.

Some inventors from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have already invented a cloak able to cover small objects. How it works? They have created a material wich is able to alter the cycle and speed of light so when the waves of light touches it, they get reflected instead of the object.

Here's an image of the Invisible Cloak. You hide an object inside the tube, and it dissapears due to the distortioned waves.

Even after reading this article I found it impossible to believe and to understand, but it seems that the inventors are going to the schools of their country to show how it works because it's physics. I haven't quite understand how the waves can make something dissapear!  But as seen in the other article that I post about the new machine able to mantain an organ alive, I don't see the utility to an invisible cloak. I'm not saying that everyone should be trying to find the method of saving the world, however that Institute is not the only one trying to design an invisible cloak, so why invert a significant amount of money, sources and time to something that it's not as demanded as the organ machine? And even though this project turns out well and in the future we will be able to be invisible, I'm sure that it's going to be used as a weapon rather than a common good. 

Harry Potter's invisible cloak

News source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3063185/Hogwarts-Researchers-reveal-real-life-invisibility-cloak-used-classrooms-teach-physics.html

NEWS: THE BREATHING LUNG TRANSPLANT

In a british hospital, it's a common thing to use a machine able to keep organs working outside the body during 24 hours. Using the machine instead of the traditional method of putting the organ into a cool box (where the organ only lives for six hours) doubles the number of lung transplants.

The machine, called Organ Care System, is able to keep the lungs in the same condition as the body, so the lungs keep working because blood is still circulating. The importance of that is because using that machines lungs can be transported, although just the 20% of them are going to be usefull due to the difficult compatibility of the doner and the person who's reciving it. As a doctor says, "organs weren't meant to be frozen on ice" so this machine basically solves the problem.

Organ Care System

Years ago, in La Marató of TV3, a program which each year is dedicated to a disease, they discussed the fact that there are a lot of people waiting for an organ transplant. This machine is giving the oportunity of saving a lot of lifes. I'm sure that doctors would find a way to built a machine like this for each organ. This kind of articles show us how quickly is the tecnology evolving!

News source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3075219/The-breathing-lung-transplant-New-machine-keeps-organ-working-outside-body-24-hours-double-number-successful-operations.html

CAN WE LIVE WITHOUT MOBILE PHONES?

Mobile phones have turned to be an essential tool on our daily basis. They have become so powerful due to their capaity, everything is linked to them and once you enter the vicious circle of being updated each second of the day you'll find it more difficult to disconnect from it.

In my opinion, there are two types of person for this issue: the ones who couldn't live without their phones and the ones who don't need a phone for anythig. There's no in between. I have seen people who were against using phones as computers. However, because of their jobs now are completely dependent. I can understand that kind of depency, but nowadays more and more people (mostly teenagers) feel the need to see what's more people (mostly teenagers) feel the need to see what's on their phone, although they might not have recieved any notification.

 We should use our mobile phones in our free time instead of not making the most of it when we're working, for example. Being the second type of person is more difficult, not to use the phone at all you must be a very organised person.

That being said, I think that I couldn't live without my phone, wich is frightening. We should enjoy doing things without using our phones, we need to find a balance.

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NEWS: ORGAN TRANSPLANT CHILD BARRED FROM RAYANAIR FLIGHT FOR ARRIVING LATE

An Airline Company called Rayanair didn't attend a family who needed to catch a flight immediately for health reasons. A ten years old boy who lives in the Canary Islands was on the list for getting a liver and kidney implants. When the hospital of Madrid called the family to say that the organs were available and that the surgery should take place as quick as possible, they rushed to the airport. Once they were there, the family tried to book a place for the child but, as the agents of Rayanair said, they were too close of the departure time and there's a rule of not to let anyone catch the plane if it's that close to the time. The family had to wait more than an hour to be able to take another plane (no from Rayanair's Compay).  Although the boy's situation is unknown, some people speculate that perhaps he was not able to have the implant on time.

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In my opinion, not allowing someone to take a plane which could save his/her life it's a clear violation of the Human Rights. To deny someone this help just because it's not in the rules, when it's a matter of living or not living, it's a crime. By doing that you don't respect the human right of Social Security (#22) because each Nation, and even in an International level, we should have to take an effort to protect lives, and the right of Responsability (#29).

News source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/organ-transplant-child-barred-from-ryanair-flight-for-arriving-late-10114656.html

HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights are fundamental rights that everyone has just by the fact of being human. Their function is to protect and help us. They were created in 1948 by Eleanor Roosevelt and the Comission of the United Nations at the end of the World War II due to the fact that millions of lifes were taken in wars or slavery. 

There are 30 human rights. Some of them are well known, like the right of equality (#1: We Are All Born Free And Equal) or the right for no torture (#5: No Torture). 

However, there're some which I didn't knew and that I think that are a little bit unnoticed by our society. 

I didn't know that we has the Right to Play (#24). This right defends that everyone must have spare time during work and also everyone should have a reasonable limitation of working hours and period vacation with payment included.

I don't think that this right it's acomplished everywhere. Even in Spain there are some cases of people who work an exageration of hours for a awful income. Or people who doesn't have hollidays. I guess that not having a holliday is not as grave as not having the right to equality but in my opinion if it's a right we should respect it as much as any other.

Source: http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/what-are-human-rights/videos/right-to-play.html

SKYPING WITH NOA

In this semester at school we had the chance to talk (trough Skype) with Noa, a girl who finished highscool a year ago and who has made a complete change in her life. 

As she explained to us, she knew two things for sure: 1: she did want to go to University and the second one: at that moment it wasn't the right time. As she explained, it was the moment to travel, to live in a different way, to be independent and to live an unforgettable experience. So, what did she do? Noa took a gap year to Australia, to Sydney to work as an au pair. 

Her job was easy: she had to take care of two young siblings and pick them up at school. She had a lot of free time and she made a lot of friends. Now she has a very good level of english and she is very happy with her decision. She said that she was homesick, however she had a great time in Autralia and before going home, she wants to go by it's own to Uluru with a group of excursionists, and although Noa is a very extrovert girl, she really likes to have a time with herself and the thing she loves the most is having adventures!

NEWS: MAN DIED FROM HEART ATTACK CAUSED BY BITTING HIS NAILS

We all know that bitting your nails is unhealthy and dangerous. Nevertheless, we're not concious about how much can this simple action afect us. 

I've found an article, which is about a man called John Gardener (40) who just died in consequence of bitting his nails. His wife explains that he bite his nails as a habit but lately it had become an adiction. Doctors believe that he didn't noticed the pain (of biting the skin) so that's why he continued bitting them. Although the poor man fought hard to stop his bad habbit, he couldn't, and his nails were in poor condition and often bleeding. Due to those facts, he died because of the lack of blood and of an infection, his heart stopped.

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All bad habits are bad for a reason. Although this story seems unrealistic, it's an example of what can cause to you have a bad addiction. I know it's not the same, but if for example you really love a book, you have that feeling that you have to finish it now: but time is running anyway, the world doesn't stop because you haven't finished the book. I gues that this is how being adicted to something is. You're not concious about the other things (most of the time those things are the rellevant ones) and that's why it's so dangerous. How can bitting your nails be that dangerous? How can watch a whole season on the internet be dangerous? You lose time, and time is gold.

News source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/john-gardener-inquest-man-died-3230045