7 Year Old Former Bully Now An Anti-Bullying Campaigner

People rarely admit to being bullies but this second-grader has taken an effort at amending his ways and the action is melting people’s hearts. “It's not too late to change," he says.

Cameron Thompson, a Tournament Hills Elementary student in Beaumont, California, was recently in trouble for teasing a boy who brought in a Barbie doll for show-and-tell in school. He teased him so much till he cried but Cameron says, that was not his intention.

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After this incident, Cameron wrote an apology letter to his classmate. His mother too spoke to the parents of the boy expressing her regrets.

Cameron, however still felt bad for what he had done and wanted to know from his mom how to get the bad feeling he had go away. The solution was an anti-bully club.

“Since I was sad, I thought I could make it up to him and he could feel better and I could feel better, too,” Cameron said.

This spring, Cameron launched a group with help from the boy he teased. They got 76 kids on the first day, which was beyond their expectations.

The school principal is happy since positive peer pressure has reduced bullying cases in the school. “We are so proud of Cameron and the work he has done to correct a wrong. When students talk to students, they’re at their level.” Callie Beitler said.

Cameron’s family made a video reenacting the bullying episode. Cameron’s brother played the bullied boy on the video while Cameron used a voice-over to explain his actions. “I didn’t really understand a boy bringing a doll to school so I thought it was funny. I told some friends and I convinced them to come make fun of him with me. We all circled him and teased him,” Cameron says. “I struggle to make good choices sometimes.”
His parents started a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/CameronsAntiBullyCampaign) to help spread the anti-bullying message. They also posted the video on YouTube and it has so far attracted thousands of views. The parents have been getting many comments from people impacted by the video.

Cameron and the boy he bullied are now friends who eat together and even play together during recess. His message to other kids is. “If somebody was bullying another person or teasing, I would say stop and that’s not funny and you should accept a person for who they are. It's not too late to change."[source: www.today.com]

A super predator ate an entire 9 foot great white shark in The Australian Ocean

In the depths of Australia’s Wild Ocean, a mysterious super predator exists.

A film crew tagged a number of adult great white sharks on the Australian Wild Ocean. They were studying their movement patterns along the Australia’s coast. Four months later, one of the sharks’ tag was found floating ashore and the data they discovered on it was sinister.

The tag showed a high-speed underwater chase, six hundred meters deep into the water and a rapid temperature rise. The shark and its tag appear to have been swallowed and carried in the belly of a large and mysterious predator according to the scientist. The tracking device must have been inside the digestive system of the predator until it finally got out.

[source: www.smithsonianchannel.com]

Scientists In Korea Have Found Magnets To Be A Cure For Cancer

They used the magnetic field of magnets to get cancer cells to self-destruct

Apoptosis is when the old, infected and/or defective cells are in the human body are removed through programmed cell death. Rejected cells respond to particular signals that the body sends by fragmenting. By use of magnetic field, scientists in South Korea got cancer cells to self-destruct. The magnets helped to trigger apoptosis. More often, if apoptosis fails to take place, rejected cells in the body divide uncontrollably leading to development of tumors.

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Prof. Jinwoo Cheon of Yonsei University, Seoul led a team of scientists in conducting experiments that used magnetic fields as a cancer cure. The experiments were on how apoptosis could be induced using magnetic field to cure bowel cancer. Iron non-particles are attached antibodies that usually bind to receptor molecules on the tumor cells. After applying the magnetic field, these molecules cluster, triggering a self-destruction signal leading to apoptosis. The scientists managed to destroy over half of these bowel cancer cells when the apoptotic clustering signal was initiated. Cells that were untreated remained unharmed and unaffected.

Related experiments have seen scientists conduct this therapy on Zebra fish. The zebra fish grew unusual tails but experiments are still ongoing. Details of this research appear in the Journal Nature Materials.

“We have demonstrated that apoptosis signaling can be turned on in-vitro (in the laboratory) and in a zebra fish in-vivo (living) model by using a magnetic switch,” the scientists say. “Our magnetic switch may be broadly applicable to any type of surface membrane receptors that exhibit cellular functions on clustering.”

This type of traditional medication may not sit well with pharmaceutical companies since they won’t earn any revenue from it. This continues to go on even though most of the drugs taken for cancer have been known to actually worsen the tumors over and over.

Cancer fighting foods that one can take include papaya leaf extract, turmeric, garlic, ginger, berries, and many more.
[Source: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk]

You May Never Drink Coke Again After Watching This Experiment

Within recent years, people have been pointing out the health concerns of taking soda, especially cola. Of great concern is how the drink wrecks the body and the high amounts taken by Americans today. The acid in coke is too much that it can be used for other purposes. This makes one question whether it?s safe for consumption. People use the drink to degrease engines, dissolve rust, clean toilets and remove paint.

This particular experiment done with the acid-ridden drink will shock you. It was done to find out what would happen if the coke is mixed with something that has the opposite of its acidic properties. Milk had this properties and therefore was the perfect choice. Using this step by step guide, they got a shocking reaction.

1. You will need coke and milk only for this experiment.

2. Pour a small amount of the milk into coke.

3. Allow the mixture to sit for 6 hours

4. The results after are shocking

5. Floating at the top of the bottle is an odd looking muck!

6. The bottom however is worse because the contents look like they are from a garbage disposal!

The experiment provides proof that this drink is not safe for human consumption. If this is the type of reaction gotten when it?s mixed with milk, what about inside our bodies where we can?t see the results visually?

This video is a demonstration of the experiment and the results gotten.

[source: www.truthseekerdaily.com]

At An Animal Hospital, Vets Were Not Expecting This To Show Up But It Did And They Were More Than Surprised!

Lots of animals go looking for medical services at a 24 hour animal hospital. Dogs, Cats, Sheep and the like, all need a vet at some time in their life. Sometimes people are kind enough to take injured wildlife to the vets too. This happened at a 24 hours emergency hospital, when an injured bald eagle was brought in. The eagle had broken its wing- an open fracture where the skin had been punctured by a bone. He surprised them with his weight and size. He was large and surprisingly heavy. They named him Freedom which was quite appropriate.

They suspected his broken wing was as a result of a car hit. They were however able and happy to help the eagle out. Compared to the hand of a vet, his talons were big but Freedom remained calm throughout the whole procedure. They patched him up pretty good and sent him on his way. One of those who helped out the eagle posted this update:

“Lots of you have been wanting an update. Once we've stabilized an animal/checked them over, we call the wildlife rehab centre in our city and they come p/u the animals. They provide long-term treatments and will attempt to rehab them in the wild again. A bad wing break like this (open fracture) is difficult to repair and can sometimes result in a wing amputation which prevents release. A wild bird does not always do well in captivity so, quite often, humane euthanasia is a common route. For this particular fellow, he went to the centre and I'm personally crossing my fingers that they'll be able to help him and give him another few years of life. Hopefully he stays away from vehicles in the future...”
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Meditation Could Change Your Brain According To The Neurologists

If you’re still wondering whether to start meditation or not, start immediately because it causes neuroplastic changes to your brains gray matter, which is a good thing.Have you been struggling with “monkey-mind”? Does your brain feel a little restless, unsettled, whimsical, capricious, inconstant, indecisive, uncontrollable, confused or fanciful? Then you need meditation.

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Research by Neuroscientists has shown that mind training and meditation can lead to great neuroplastic changes to your brain’s gray matter. A group of them from Harvard, who were interested in the study of mindful meditation, reported that it only takes eight weeks of meditation for the brain structures to change. In a press release, their study senior, Sara Lazar, Ph.D. stated that,

“Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day.”

While testing this idea, 16 people were enrolled in a mindful-based stress reduction course for a period of eight weeks. The course was supposed to reduce their levels of stress and improve their mindfulness and well-being. The 16 each received 45 minutes audio recordings that contained guided mindfulness exercises. They included yoga, body scan and sitting meditation. They were given instructions to practice on a daily basis at home. In order to integrate mindfulness in daily activities, they were taught how to practice it when walking, eating, taking a shower, washing the dishes and many more. In a day, they spent an average 27 minutes practicing mindfulness.

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Their brain Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI scans) were taken just before and immediately after they finished the training. A control group that didn’t undergo the meditation course, also had their MRI’s taken. The group reported that after the course, they noticed significant improvement in their measures of mindfulness. They could now act with awareness and were non-judgmental.

The shocking discovery was that their MRI scans showed that the group that underwent the course, increased the concentration of gray matter within the posterior cingulate cortex, the cerebellum, left hippocampus and the temporo-parietal junction. These brain regions are involved in emotion regulation, learning and memory, perspective taking and sense of self!

“It is fascinating to see the brain’s plasticity and that, by practicing meditation, we can play an active role in changing the brain and can increase our well-being and quality of life. “said Britta Hölzel, the papers lead author.

According to Sarah Lazar, the study “demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing.”
[Sources: www.mindbodygreen.com]

Watch This Amazing Time Lapse View of The Earth As Seen From The International Space Station

Incredible videos have been made with photos from the International Space Station but none is quite like this one.

“This is Our Planet” was created by Tomislav Safundžic using photos and videos he took from the Image Science and Analysis Laboratory at the NASA-Johnson Space Center. He is a photography and video enthusiast from Croatia. He pieced together the photos and videos, to produce a wonderful time-lapse video that shows the earth as viewed from the International Space Station. Edited by the XX to “intro”, the video shows a spectacular view of the planet, stars, aurora, thunderstorms, night lighting and some parts of the ISS.

Image courtesy: NASA-Johnson Space Center

The ISS orbits the earth at approximately 250 miles altitude on average. It travels at 17,500 miles per hour and averages 16 trips in a day. 
Safundžic has many amazing photos on his page and you can check them out. You can also watch “The Journey Home”, a video created by Col. Ron Garan after he spent 178 days in space. It also includes time spent aboard the ISS.
[source: www.huffingtonpost.com]