Global Handwashing Day: Kitchen Hygiene

Global Handwashing Day on 15 October, the worldwide event that highlights the important role good hand hygiene plays in preventing the spread of a range of diseases.

Global Handwashing Day: The Global Handwashing Dance by Unicef

Japanese dancer Kaiji Moriyama has choreographed a dance for a public service announcement designed to teach children the principles of good handwashing.

The dance shows children how in just 20 seconds they can properly wash their palms, nails, fingers and wrists. The dance has almost no verbal instruction, but, by simply following the steps, children learn proper handwashing while also having fun.

Global Handwashing Day 2012: October 15 2012

The practice of handwashing with soap tops the international hygiene agenda on October 15th, with the celebration of Global Handwashing Day.

Handwashing with soap is among the most effective and inexpensive ways to prevent diarrhoeal diseases and pneumonia, which together are responsible for the deaths of over 3.5m children under the age of 5 every year. In developed countries, handwashing helps to prevent the spread of viral infections, such as norovirus, rotavirus and influenza.

Although people around the world wash their hands with water, many do not wash their hands with soap at critical moments, including after going to the toilet and before handling or eating food. The challenge is to transform handwashing with soap from an abstract good idea into an automatic behaviour carried out in homes, schools, workplaces and communities.

Global Handwashing Day is the centrepiece of a week of activities that aim to mobilise millions of people to wash their hands with soap. This simple activity could save more lives than any vaccine or medical intervention, preventing the spread of infection and keeping children in school.

Children, who so often are energetic, enthusiastic and open to new ideas, can act as agents of change by taking the handwashing lessons learned at school back into their homes and communities. Global Handwashing Day aims to motivate children to embrace and share proper handwashing practices and to take on the role of handwashing ambassadors. Source: Global Handwashing Day:

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Spectacular Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) August 31 2012 by NASA

On August 31, 2012 a long filament of solar material that had been hovering in the sun's atmosphere, the corona, erupted out into space at 2036 UTC. The coronal mass ejection, or CME, traveled at over 900 miles per second. The CME did not travel directly toward Earth, but did connect with Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosphere, with a glancing blow, causing aurora to appear on the night of Monday, September 3.

Who Killed the Electric Car?

It was among the fastest, most efficient production cars ever built. It ran on electricity, produced no emissions and catapulted American technology to the forefront of the automotive industry. The lucky few who drove it never wanted to give it up. So why did General Motors crush its fleet of EV-1 electric vehicles in the Arizona desert?

Who Killed the Electric Car? chronicles the life and mysterious death of the EV-1; examining the cultural and economic ripple effects caused by its conception and how they reverberated through the halls of government and big business.

The Electric Car Revolution

This documentary shows the evolution of the electric car from the very beginnings until the first mass productions pioneered by Mitsubishi, Renault and Nissan. If not yet the revolutionary solution, still is far better than burning the limited resources of fossil fuels to move our vehicles (with an efficiency lower than 30%). Nevertheless, one big question arises: where will we get from the enormous amount of electrical power needed to charge the batteries in case of mass utilization of this kind of vehicles? If the energy source still is burning fossil fuels, then the results (in terms of overall efficiency and CO2 emissions) might even be worse than using the old internal combustion engine...

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