Month: July 2013

15/07/2013 black market operations | human organs | Illegal Transplant | Inhale the Movie | istanbul declaration | new organ | organ transplantation | Organs Sale | world health organisation Feitosa-Santana

Inhale: a Movie about Organ Trafficking

Anyone that goes to the black market looking for an organ is perpetuating the Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery. It is estimated that 15 thousand people are killed every year to have their organs sold to someone that pays for it.  A father desperate to find a lung donor to save his daughter’s life travels to Mexico to buy […]

13/07/2013 chicago museum of science | Color is in the Brain | education | entertainment | Isaac Newton Light and Color | john werner | physical stimulus | science | science for lay people | visual stimulus | wavelengths of light Feitosa-Santana

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago: Review

According to the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, IL) “the color of an object is determined by the specific wavelengths of lights that it absorbs and reflects” but THIS IS NOT TRUE. This wrong definition is presented in the Color Booth and situated in the Science Storm Exhibition. Here are some explanations about why color […]

13/07/2013 chicago museum of science | Color is in the Brain | education | entertainment | Isaac Newton Light and Color | john werner | physical stimulus | science | science for lay people | visual stimulus | wavelengths of light Feitosa-Santana

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago: Review

According to the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, IL) “the color of an object is determined by the specific wavelengths of lights that it absorbs and reflects” but THIS IS NOT TRUE. This wrong definition is presented in the Color Booth and situated in the Science Storm Exhibition. Here are some explanations about why color […]

13/07/2013 Girls like Malala | Pakistan Human Rights | Pakistan Swara | Pakistan Women | politics | society | South Asia Girls Feitosa-Santana

Malala’s Forgotten Sisters – by Adriana Carranca

KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, Pakistan — At only 12, Nazia lives in expectation of the worst. As I step through the doorway of the humble compound her parents share with two other families in the Pashtun lands of northwest Pakistan, her small, fragile body trembles unwittingly. She knew I was coming, but learned too young to trust no […]