science

American museum of natural history / Američki muzej prirodne istorije

~ au

One of the places that we managed to visit, a couple of times even, is one of the worlds most famous natural history museums in New York city.
When my parents where here me and my mother took the metro to the city and it is the worst metro that I have ever seen in my life. It wasn’t really what we expected so we just had to take a picture of that…

Jedno od mjesta koje smo uspijeli posjetiti, čak par puta, je jedan od najpoznatijih muzeja na svijetu je Američki muzej prirodne istorije u New York gradu.
Kad su moji roditelji bili u posjetu ja i mama smo otišle metrom u grad i to je najružniji metro koji smo ikada vidjele. Morale smo to uslikati…

It looked a little better when we got out at the end station. Izgledalo je malo bolje kad smo izašli na završnu našu stanicu.

The museum is HUGE!
The first buildings were built in 1874 and buildings were added during the years. The last one that is built will be (planned) in 2022.
It has 26 buildings and 45 permanent exhibition halls. It contains over 34 million(!!) specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural artifacts as well as specialized collections for frozen tissue and genomic and astrophysical data, of which only a small fraction can be displayed at any given time, and occupies more than 190,000 m2.

The one thing that impressed me the most is actually that it is financed by donations. It means that when you come to this museum you can donate 1 cent and enter. You don’t have to buy tickets to enter. Only special exhibitions are payed extra, but if you are visiting the museum once in your lifetime, I would not pay for the extra exhibitions but just go for the permanent ones. They are impressive enough.

Muzej je OGROMAN!
Prve zgrade su izgrađene 1874. godine, a tokom dug niz godina dodavane su zgrade gdje se muzej širio. Posljednja koja je izgrađena planirana je biti završena 2022. godine.
Muzej se sastoji od 26 zgrada i 45 stalnih izložbenih dvorana. Sadrži preko 34 milion (!!) primjeraka biljaka, životinja, fosila, minerala, stijena, meteorita, ljudskih ostataka i ljudskih kulturnih artefakata, kao i specijalizirane zbirke smrznutog tkiva, genomske i čak astrofizičke podatke. Samo mali dio svega ovoga se može prikazati jednom trenutku i ipak zauzima više od 190.000 m2.

They have a fantastic homepage where one can check out the museum in 3 D (link) or explore the exhibits (link)

Imaju fantastičnu stranicu gdje možete gledati muzej u 3 D format (link) i možete čak i vidjeti izložbe (link)

3 minutes / 3 minute

~ au

Todays big news in Swedish TV are about Swedish researchers that have done tests on children where they waited 3 minutes or more to cut the umbilical cord. They showed that these children obtained 1 deciliter more blood, iron, immune cells and stem cells. 1 dl is something like 30% of the babys blood. This extra blood gave these children better iron levels that the children could use up when growing as long as up to 6 – 8 months of age. Well, imagine you were sick and 1/3 of your blood was donated…
The child can get hypoglycemia, (sugar coma) like a diabetic, because of this and when I think about it, it is strange that no one- not the doctors nor the midwives, ever mentioned this.
I hope therefore that every pregnant woman gets more active and does not allow to cut the umilical cord the first couple of minutes after delivery.Danas bitne vjesti na švedskim vijestima su o švedskim naučnicima što su uradili testove na 500 novorođenčad  gdje su čekali najmanje 3 minute prije nego što su osjekli pupčanu vrbcu. Pokazali su da su djeca dobila čak decilitar krvi više a kroz to željeza, imunočelija i matičnih čelija. 1 deci krvi je oko 30% krvi što beba ima. Ovo ekstra krv što dobiju bebe mogu čak do 6-8 mjeseca da koriste kad rastu. A zamislite sad kad ste vi bolesni i neko vam uzme trećinu krvi…
Zbog ovog dijete može dobiti hipoglikemiju (pad šećera) kao što diabetičari dobiju.
I kad malo razmislim o tome nikad niko to nije spomenuo na kontrolama kojim sam išla. Zato se nadam da će trudnice biti tu aktivnije i ne dati da se presječe pupčana vrbca prvi par minuta u porodu.

 

Resistence / Resistencija

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Since Ada got tonsillitis I remembered the documentary called “Resistence”. It makes me really grateful that we can still use any antibiotics at all. Resistance is a movie about the use of antibiotics and how people, because of wrong behavior and use, have literally contributed to multi-resistant bacteria to literally all antibiotics we have today. It is scary, not to say horrifying.
We are so used to being able to use antibiotics but imagine just how it would be without them. The simplest conditions like tonsillitis could very fast turn into a life threatening disease. Imagine that no antibiotics work. We would really go back to a life before 1928 when Alexander Fleming detected the penicillin. Nothing would be the same, especially since this time we would have bacteria that are worse than in 1928.

Kako je Ada dobila gnojnu anginu, tako sam se sjetila dokumentarnog filma “Resistance” (Resistencija) . Stvarno sam zahvalna što uopšte možemo koristiti ikakve antibiotike.
Resistencija je film o korištenju antibiotika i kako su ljudi, zbog svog načina i ponašanje, doveli do situacije gdje su se multiresistentne bakterije stvorile bukvalno protiv svih antibiotika kojih danas imamo. Strašno je, da ne kažem užasno. Toliko smo navikli na život sa antibioticima da ne možemo ni zamisliti život bez njih. Najobičnije bolesti poput gnojne angine bi se vrlo brzo mogle razviti u po životu opasne bolesti. Zamislite da ni jedan antibiotik ne funkcioniše! Vratili bi se bukvalno u život prije 1928, kad je Alexander Fleming pronašao penicilin.10291093_687239617990388_2591701383427313273_n

It’s over / Gotovo je

~ au

My little experiment is finished!
Couple of years back the hamburger bread fell behind a shelf in the storage room and was there for a month before I found it when cleaning. Since the bread looked as new I decided to keep it until it gets bad and uneatable. It has been with me since 2011 (!?) and I finally decided to get rid of it. Now the question that came up to my mind is…what kind of FOOD do we eat that doesn´t decompose? And second question is, since we are sorting waste, when I throw it do I throw it in the plastic waste bin OR does this bread still count as biological waste…even when not decomposing? 20160924_130747_1475231547413_resized 20160924_130815_1475231545279_resizedMoj mali eksperiment je završen!
Prije nekoliko godina mi je kruh za hamburgere pao iza police u špajzi. Našla sam slijedećeg mjeseca kad sam čistila špajzu. Kruh je izgledao kao da sam ga maloprije kupila i odlučim se da ga neko vrijeme zadržim samo da vidim koliko će mu dugo trajati da se pokvari. To je bilo 2011! I dan danas ovaj kruh izgleda kao da sam ga maloprije kupila i sad sam se odlučila da ga bacim. I prvo pitanje što mi je palo na pamet je… kakva je ovo HRANA koja se ne pokvari? A drugo pitanje je bilo, jer sortiramo otpad, u koje smeće da bacim ovaj kruh? U smeće gdje bacamo plastiku ili u biološki otpad…iako se ne rastvara?

The Human Experiment / Ljudski eksperiment

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Previously writing about the gynecomastia made me interested in the changes in the bodies of grown ups and children. I found a very interesting and disturbing documentary at Netflix, called “The human experiment”. Everyone should watch it and reflect about it.
It is scary to the point that it shows how chemicals for decades are stored in our bodies and affect us in ways we do not even know of. Just the fact that there is an increase of leukemia or life threatening birth defects, problems to reproduce and so on in last 45 years (in the movie it shows the facts for USA) makes me uneasy. I do now want to risk my or my child´s life when sitting in the sofa, or touching plastics, eating “wrong” food, brushing my teeth with “wrong” toothpaste and so on.
The movie forced me to start thinking about my way of life and I am now trying to leave a smaller footprint on this planet and to think more about things I buy for the sake of Ada.
If you are interested in more information about safe products  you can get it at the human experiment webpage.the-human-experimentKako sam prije pisala o ginekomastiji , to me zainteresovalo u razlog zašto dolazi do promijena kod odraslih i djece. Pogledala sam jedan jako dobar dokumentarni na Netflixu koji se zove “The human experiment”, ili u prevodu “Ljudski eksperiment”. Svi bi ga trebali pogledati i malo razmisliti o njemu.
Strašan je jer opisuje kako se kemikalije decenijama slažu u našim tijelima i utiču  na načine koje su nama još uvijek nepoznati. Ali sama ta činjenica da je , u zadnjih 45 godina (u filmu prikazuju podatke iz Amerike) toliko povećanje dječije leukemije, opasnih po životu urođenih mana, problemi sa reprodukcijom itd. me čini malo nelagodnom.
Neću da rizikujem moj ili od mog djeteta život samo zato što sjedim na sofi, ili što dirnem plastiku, što jedem “pogrešnu” hranu, što perem zube pogrešnim kaladontom itd. Uglavnom, film me natjerao da razmislim malo o svom načinu života i počela sam se truditi da što više mislim na te stvari , na šta kupujem ako ništa zbog Ade i njezine budućnosti.
Ako hoćete da više o sigurnim produktima pročitate možete ući na webstranicu “the human experiment“.

Gynecomastia / Ginekomastia

~ au

Yesterday, I went swimming with Ada. It was really nice. She was diving (not holding her nose) and she has absolutely no fear of water.
Something that caught my eyes at the bathhouse this time… again… and has actually caught my eyes more often lately is that I see many young boys with breasts?? I have noticed that boys have become much thicker than a couple of years ago but now they have obtained breasts like girls get…when they are in adolescence! I find it disturbing.
I have read that to some extent that is normal, but I do not buy that suddenly so many boys have breasts at age of 9-10 years. I feel something is wrong there.  I thus talked with a friend, who´s a medical doctor, about it and he also agreed that there are more boys with breasts. He also believes that a big reason for this is the food we are eating!
We agreed that children are thicker today than 20-30 years ago. This increased fat is distributed for storage in the whole body including breasts.
The reason is probably the food we are eating!
The meat we eat today (that is not grown in ecological way) like chicken, cattle, pork and other kind of meat sources are filled with different hormones, including estrogen, to make these animals grow as fast as possible. These hormones then come into our bodies and make for sure quite an impact on small bodies that are under development.
We should take this threat seriously and this should be much more (professionally) discussed and researched about than it is today. Just to say that it is normal for a boy to have breasts when even a layman as me sees a difference at the streets is for me scaring.
For me,for a start, it seems that if one has children (or for yourself) that it is better to let them eat no meat at all, if one cannot afford ecological meat, than to give them any kind of “cheap”, mass produced hormone stuffed meat on the table. .types-or-grades-of-gynecomastiaJucer smo Ada i ja isle na bazen. Bilo je pravo lijepo. Ronila je, bez da se drzi za nos, i nikako se ne boji vode.
Jednu stvar sto sam na bazenu primjetila i primjecujem sve vise u zadnje vrijeme kako sam vise bila po bazenima je da jako mnogo djecaka ima dojke kao sto curice dobiju u pubertetu.
Citala sam da je do neke mjere to normalno, ali kad toliko djecaka ima dojke u dobi od nekih 9-10 godina meni to onda ne djeluje bas normalno.
Pricala sam o tome sa jednim prijateljem, ljekarom, koji je primjetio isti fenomen.
Slozili smo se da su djeca deblja danas nego prije 20-30 godina. Povecana kolicina masnoce se raspodijeli po tijelu i dio toga se slegne u dojkama kod djecaka.
Isto tako vjeruje da je velika vjerovatnoca da je to od hrane koju jedemo.
Npr. zivotinje koje jedimo su tovljene hormonima poput estrogena, da bi sto brze rasli. Ti hormoni ulaze u tijelo i poremete sistem tih malih tijela koji se razvijaju
Vjerujem da je ovo samo pocetak i da ove stvari profesionalci moraju puno vise diskutovati i izucavati. Reci da je normalno za djecaka da ima dojke kad i laik poput mene vidi da je znatno povecan broj ovoga kod djecaka je cisto ignorisanje situacije.
Za mene djeluje, da ako imas djecu (a i za sebe) da je bolje ne dati da jedu meso (ili bilo sta) koje nije ekoloskog porijekla nego da jedu bilo kakvo „jeftino“ meso koje je masovno producirano i puno hormona…

Gardening- Tomatos / Trik – paradajz

~ au

Everyone likes the perfect red mature tomato. When we see the black thing on the leaves we can´t avoid feeling a little bit irritated. This irritation is called Phytophthora infestans  and it is a fungi that likes warm humid weather. The spores are stuck onto the leaves and the tomato itself and after a while it gets black.
There is a trick how to avoid it though!
Mix 100 ml skimmed milk with 1 liter water properly. Spray it on the leaves and the tomato. Do not use whole milk because its fat will just help out another fungi “the Pucciniales” to grow.
Depending on the weather, if it is warm and humid spray the milk mixture every 10 days. If it is dry and warm spray every four weeks.614521x265_197
Svi vole one perfektne crvene zrele paradajze. I kad vidimo crne gljivice po njima i po listovima  malo se iritiramo. Ta iritacija se zove Phytophthora infestans i jedna je gljivica koja voli sparno vrijeme i tad se najbolje siri po listovima paradajza ( i krompira). Spore se zakace po listovima i samom paradajzu i vremenom pocrni.
Ako hocete da ovo izbjegnete imate jedan trik!
Promijesajte 100 ml obranog mlijeka sa 1 litrom vode. Dobro promuckajte i pospricajte po paradajzu. Ne koristite obicno masno mlijeko jer masnoca pomaze da raste druga gljiva zvana Pucciniales.
Ovisno o vremenu, kad je sparno ovu mjesavinu spricajte svakih 10 dana. Ako je suho i toplo vrijeme onda spricajte mjesavinu svake cetiri sedmice.

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Potatoe / Krompir

~ au

Imagine that once upon a time there where over 20 000 different kinds of potatoes! Today most of them are in the genbank. In Germany only some 150 are left, and in the common supermarkets not more than a dozen are sold. Quite a sad destiny considering its 9000 year history!
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Zamislite da je nekad u Europi bilo preko 20 000 vrsta krompira, ali je danas vecina samo za pronaci u genbanci.U Njemackoj se jede jos samo nekih 150 sorti od kojih se u velikim supermarketima u biti samo jos nalazi nekih dvadesetak. Zalosno kad skontas da je krompir nekih 9 000 godina star!