Eat Chocolate to Relieve Stress
Often experience stress because of the workload? Maybe you often choose to eat as a fugitive.There’s a good idea to just biting and chewing chocolate. Because according to recent research found chocolate can lower levels of stress hormones.
Since 11,000 BC the Aztecs and Maya have enjoyed chocolate as a beverage. Chocolate contains alkaloids such as theobromine and phenethylamine which psychological effect on the body. This is related to levels of serotonin in the brain.
Scientists claim that chocolate is eaten in certain amounts can lower blood pressure. Dark chocolate is recently promoted as health benefits, including the content of antioxidants that can reduce free radicals.
In a study conducted recently also demonstrated that eating dark chocolate candy as much as 40 grams per day for 2 weeks can reduce stress hormone cortisol levels also ‘fight or flight’ hormone known as catecholamine on the people affected by severe stress.
This discovery adds a row of dark chocolate benefits that have been previously known. The researchers also tried to explore the content in dark chocolate that can provide health benefits.Such as increase insulin sensitivity, lower blood pressure and improve mood.
Boscha’s Sun Binoculars
As reported the nation’s leading newspapers, Kompas. Indonesia Boscha observatory located in Lembang, Bandung, West Java now has a new facility in the form of sun glasses. Location Lembang cities in the tropics and enough to make a pretty good strategy to study the sun.
NASA already has a SOHO (Solar & Heliospheric Observatory), certainly not balanced when compared to existing solar telescope in the Boscha. However, due to the strategic location and close enough to the center of Bandung. This is very good facilities to attract people, especially students.
Looking ahead, the data from this solar telescope will be connected with live streaming on the ITB’s website and updated in real time. This data would be used for the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN).
Three Indonesian Students Achieve UNESCO Award
Three Indonesian students received achievement awards from the UNESCO Mondialogo Award and the German company Daimler AG that produces Mercedes-Benz luxury cars, in Stuttgart, Germany.
In addition to the three Indonesian engineering student achievement, Mondialogo Engineering Award is also given to 60 outstanding students from 28 countries, said Sosbud and PIPP Counselor Embassy to Berlin Agus Priono AFP correspondent of London, Thursday.
He said the award was divided into 30 projects are areas of development, poverty alleviation and the environment.
Third Indonesian student achievement is Benny from the University of Gadjah Mada (UGM) Yogyakarta with the Zero Waste Project Production System in Small / Medium Industrial Clusters the gold medal.
While Fengky Satria Yorestra from Andalas University Infrastructure project from the Tsunami Evacuation for Coastal Communities in West Sumatra Silver medal.
Bioethanol, Potential Future Energy
Bioethanol can be an option in reducing environmental damage as a side effect of the development of industry and transportation. There are several advantages possessed bioethanol fuel than gasoline, partly because the production process more environmentally friendly and involved planting vegetation that absorb carbondioxide in the atmosphere. In addition, the using of bioethanol as fuel for motor vehicles more environmental friendly because it produces less pollution.
Using of Detergent in Indonesia
For other cleaning materials, detergents is the yield of technological advances that make use of the chemical byproduct of petroleum distillation, combined with other chemicals such as phosphate, silicate, dye, and fragrance ingredients. around in the 1960s, the early generations detergent appeared using surface pengaktif chemicals (surfactants) Alkyl Benzene Sulfonat (ABS) is capable of producing foam. However, due to the difficult nature of ABS broken down by microorganisms in the soil surface, eventually replaced by Linear Alkyl compounds Sulfonat (LAS) are believed to be relatively more familiar with the environment.
In many countries in the world have banned the use of ABS and replaced with the LAS. While in Indonesia, the regulations concerning the prohibition of using ABS does not exist. Several reasons ABS is used in detergent products, such as low cost, stability in the form of cream / pasta and abundant foam.
Solar Cycle Miracle
The sun on the way its evolution as a star shows the dynamic properties, both in the outer layer (photosphere, chromosphere, corona) and the inner lining. One of the wonders of evolution behavior is the phenomenon of solar activity cycle 11 years.
Iteration cycle is a common event in nature. Afternoon changed the night, due to the earth’s rotation on its axis. Successive seasons due to the slope of the earth’s rotation axis to the plane of its orbit around the sun (the earth’s equator at an angle of 23.5 degrees to the Ecliptic). And the sun was also a cycle of activity.
Indonesian Student-Made Satellite Launch in The Year 2012
Mini satellite or nano satellite (made by students) is going to launch in Indonesia in the year 2012, because the discussion between students of UGM, ITB, ITS, UI, and PENS ITS and abroad Indonesian students has begun.
“Starting this year (2009), we conducted a series of meetings with students from various campuses,” said researchers from Indonesia in the TU Delft the Netherlands, Dedy HB Wicaksono, PhD., At Surabaya, Monday.
In between Workshops Inspire (Indonesian Satellite Platform Nano Initiative for Research & Education) in PENS ITS, he said the meeting would continue with an intensive research in the Netherlands or in Indonesia.
Pneumonia, The Toddler Main Killer
Busy prevent the spread of with HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis, and influenza A H1N1 made the world off guard. Slowly but surely, pneumonia (pneumonia acute) continues claimed the lives of children.
According to UNICEF and WHO, pneumonia is the number one child killer who has been forgotten (forgotten major killer of children). Whereas, it caused higher mortality when compared with total deaths from AIDS, malaria, and measles.
From 9 million deaths in children under five years (toddler) per year in the world, more than 2 million of them die because of pneumonia. Means, 1 in 5 children who die globally due to bacterial or viral pneumonia.
Asteriod will Hit Earth in the Year 2029
Until now the asteroid is named Asteroid 2004 MN4 is rather difficult to observe. “The Torino Scale Collision strength used by astronomers about the possibility of collision with Earth, the asteroid was scored 2 out of 10″, said Donald Yeomans of the program manager of the Near Earth Object part of the propulsion system NASA Laboratory in Pasadena.
How to Know Our Phone are Tapped
Many people wonder how it actually intercepts conducted, and how well the signs of bugged phone. Moreover, tapping not only the officials, but it can be done to anyone.
Actually, not too difficult to identify whether our phone was bugged people. Here are some simple ways to recognize the symptoms.