... change ...

Change is a part of life, whether we like it or not every single accion we take every day can lead to a complete turn of events that can change our lives in ways we never imagened possible. Change is almost innevetable, the only thing we can control is our attitude towards it. I personally don't have a very specific idea about the subject. I consider that change can be both good and bad.

Some people don't like change, they see it as a threat, being comfortable with their lives as they are they don't welcome the idea of changing anything about it. We could maybe atribute this to the fact that change can be quite frightening (the possibility of something going wrong is a terrifying thought), but even so, not accepting changes can only lead to repeat daily accions and activities again and again, wich is in my opinion a very boring way to live.

On the other hand some people welcome change as they see it as an exciting experience. Accepting change can be a very good way to help youself to grow as person, in both personal and profesional fields. Furthermore it can lead to highly fun experiences.
Even more, if we look back on human history we could say that all the discoveries (in fields such as medicine, geography, science, etc. ...) were made by man and women that were not afraid of change (in fact we could say that those people wanted tho change the world, or at least something about it) . Many of those changes beneficiated humanity. Nevertheless, we do have to consider that not all the changes that took place in the past have ended up being for the best interest of humanity, or the planet.

Consequently I consider that we could define change as a doble-edged weapon (but this is of course if we speak of a global scale change), on more daily life basis I’m personally afraid of change, but if I know,or at least suspect, that it is for my own good, or the well-being of some one I care for, I can welcome it.

To Change or Not To Change?

Change is a part of life, whether we like or not every single accion we take every day can lead to a complete turn of events that can change our lives in ways we never imagened possible.
Change is almost innevetable, the only thing we can control is our attitude towards it. Some people don't like change, they see it as a threat, being comfortable with their lives as they are they don't welcome the idea of changing anything about it. On the other hand some people welcome change as they see it as an exciting experience.
I personally don't have a very specific idea about the subject. I consider that change can be both good and bad. If we look back on human history we could say that all the discoveries (in fields such as medicine, geography, science, etc. ...) were made by man and women that were not afraid of change (in fact we could say that those people wanted tho change the world) . Many of those changes beneficiated humanity. Never the less we have to consider that not all the changes that took place in the past have ended up being for the best interest of humanity (or the planet).
Therefore I consider that we could define change as a doble-edged weapon (but this is of course if we speak of a global scale change).
If we go back to daily lives, accepting change can be a good way to help youself to grow as person (in both personal and profesional fields), not accepting change can only lead to repeat daily accions and activities again and again, wich is in my opinion a very boring way to live.

News Summary: New research projects could save 100,000 animals from experiments.

Britain is the country that performs more animal experiments in the world (most of them are them on mice, rats and other rodents). Therefore The government announced the creation of a new programme of research that will save the life of over 100.000 animals.
The projects will consist in the elaboration of models of human cells to study several diseases (diabetes for example) and in the amelioration of the well-being of animals during experiments (Science minister Ian Pearson mencioned that even though it is a regrettable part of scientific studies, the use of small animals is esential).
11 of these new projects are part of the 3R’s strategy (replace, reduce and refine the use of animals in investigations).

In 2004 the government created “The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs)”. Nowdays the centre has two objectives. The fist one considers the use of tissue engineering to produce better animal models, and the second one implies the refinement of experiments in wich the death of the animal is needed.

One of NC3Rs projects consists in reducing the use of animals in the growth of kidney tissue, Dr. Jamie Davies (team leader) plans to develop a new procidure that will make the grow in culture possible, reducing the need for embryonic cells. This work would replace 15.000 of the animales used each year in kidney studies.

Apart from this more effors will be made to reduce the use of animals in experiments. For example Dr. Robinson (Chief executive of NC3Rs) mencioned a project in wich they will work with the European pharmaceutical industry in order to reduce the use of animal in toxicity tests (tests that involves the death of animals).

A web site I enjoy

Mostly of the websites I visit have something to do whit japanese animation (anime) because I’m a huge fan of it. That’s why I would have to say that one of the websites I enjoy the most is www.youtube.com.

There I can find hole anime episodes (and even complete series!), amv’s (anime music videos), clips etc. ...

But that’s not all I watch at youtube, I usually watch a lot funny videos. Most of them belong to “Family Guy” (a TV show from the United States), others for example are from really weird Japanese tv shows (contest shows).

Other kind of videos that usually get my atention are animal videos, almost all of them involve really cute puppies or some pet doing something funny.

And occasionally I watch some music video from some band I like.

The only problem is that the site is kind of adicctive, so I usually end up spending hours in it.