RBBantiles

@RBBantiles (347)

Philippines • Age 74

Joined myLot 13 years ago

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Executive-Legislative Negotiation on the Debt Ceiling was Unnecessary

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 4 Aug 11

The drawn-out negotiations and acrimonious debates on the debt ceiling between the Executive and Legislative branches of the US government succeeded too well in making the US, rightly or wrongly, a spectacle to the world of...

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Water Dilemma

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 31 Jul 11

According to Wikipedia, many experts believe that by 2025, more than half of the world population will be facing water-based vulnerability. It mentioned a report in November 2009 that suggests that by 2030, in some of the...

water dilemma

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Darwin and Earthworms

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 31 Jul 11

Charles Darwin is a figure whose ideas and influence over-arch and ramify into all branches of science, philosophy, theology, in fact in practically everything. Least known of his body of works is his study on the earthworm. In...

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"Once we can safely transplant animal organs into people, should we?"

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 30 Jul 11

Genetic engineering has so advanced that it will soon be possible to genetically engineer "humanized" animals to serve as a sort of living "human spare parts store." "Once we can safely transplant animal organs, should we?" is a...

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Counting Life Forms in the Garden

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 24 Jul 11

I have a very small garden, scarcely 5 square meters. Yet there are many wild life residing in the soil and among plants. I have observed 3 kinds of gecko, 4 kinds of ants, 1 kind of earthworm, 2 kinds of millipede, 2 kinds of...

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Spheres of Influence

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 20 Jul 11

Do you think it will make for a peaceful and more prosperous world if Europe focuses on building the Common European Home, the US help the Latin American countries (based on the Monroe Doctrine), and India and China assist...

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Uranium in Andhra Pradesh

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 19 Jul 11

Uranium has reportedly been discovered in Andhra Pradesh. Some experts say that this is, as of this time at least, the biggest deposit in the world. The macro and micro economics is apparent and predictable. India pins a lot of...

economic development

international relations

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Let us use our coconuts

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 18 Jul 11

It is said that "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." However, comparing 100 g of RAW COCONUT MEAT and 100 g of FRESH COCONUT WATER to 100 g of RAW APPLE WITH SKIN yields the following: ENERGY: Coconut Meat has 354 kCal,...

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Let us use our coconuts

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 18 Jul 11

It is said that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." If you compare the nutrients present in 100 grams of raw coconut meat to 100 grams of raw apple with skin, you will find that coconut meat gives almost 7 times the Energy...

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Snakes - Driving them away, Keeping them in their proper place

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 15 Jul 11

I would like to ask our fellow MyLotters if you have any idea how to drive snakes away. Old folks in the Philippines advise us that one way to drive snakes away is to throw garlic at them and put garlic in their lairs. So that no...

snakes

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Retirement Villages

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 12 Jul 11

Demographics shows that the population crowned by Gray Hair is increasing in proportion to the younger generation. The proportion is expected to increase rather than shrink in the next decades due to advances in holistic health...

retirement villages

Food and its Functions

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 12 Jul 11

I'm a person who look at food beyond eating, feeding and nutrition. I look at it too as a celebration of love, of friendship, of solidarity. Because of this, most of the time I don't refuse the food served, although I control the...

act of love and friendship

food

nutrition

religious and cultural sensibilities

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Village Radio Station

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 10 Jul 11

Barangay Tacunan in the 3rd Congressional district of Davao City is not a typical Philippine village. It has a community radio station which sends its broadcasts literally into the air through a public address system mounted on a...

community radio station

Dogs can find their own medicines and heal themselves

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 10 Jul 11

Dogs have the ability to find their own medicine and heal themselves. If the surrounding area is covered with natural vegetation accessible to dogs, the ailing dog will find its medicine by smelling and tasting the grasses. When...

dogs

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Can plants and other life forms also enjoy music?

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 9 Jul 11

I enjoy gardening. Some of my friends who do gardening with a level of passion greater than mine tell me that they grow plants best when plants are "exposed" to classical music. While they are in the garden, they play classical...

music appreciation by plants and animals

scientific experiments

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Renewable Energy versus Nuclear Energy

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 4 Jul 11

Germany, Italy, and Switzerland have clearly abandoned the path that relies on nuclear energy. Germany has combined the phase-out of nuclear energy with a very vigorous initiative for renewable energy and a drive to increase...

renewable energy versus nuclear energy

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Nuclear Power, Constitutional Rights, and Politics

RBBantiles @RBBantiles (347) • Philippines 1 Jul 11

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the ongoing crisis in Fukushima have demonstrated that going nuclear for energy, the construction and location of nuclear power plants are issues that touch people's lives, liberty, and property...

constitutional rights

nuclear power

politics

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