The Threatened one's...!!!

  A new post after quite a long time, I suppose. Pardon with me for the delay. Now, let's get back to the article. Everybody's familiar with the word "threatened" & also do we associate it mostly with life or death situations ( say stuck in the middle of nowhere ). What's the ground reality today..??

Animals are the Threatened Species & We, Humans are the Threatening Species.Uff ! to the ever growing Human's desires & greeds.

  Presuming that you all are aware of the terms like "vulnerable", "endangered", & "threatened", and the same often referred to as to the extent of existence of flora & fauna in their own habitats. Well, I'd sum up a 30 of them for you all ( really sensitive one's ).

Here are the one's you've probably heard of atleast once;

-Leatherback Turtle

-Loggerhead Turtle

-Eurasian Otter

-European Sturgeon

-Atlantic Puffin

-Atlantic Halibut

-Atlantic Cod

-Common Skate

-Common Eel

-Harbour Seal

-Harbour Porpoise

-Bottlenose Dolphin

-Blue Shark

-Sperm Whale

And, there are these you've may not heard of;

-Undulate Ray

-Balearic Shearwater

-Angel Shark

-Angular Shark

-Basking Shark

-Frilled Shark

-Porbeagle Shark

-Thresher Shark

-Tope Shark

-Pink Sea Fan

-Sei Whale

-Spiny Dogfish

-Short snouted Seahorse

-Long snouted Seahorse

-Velvet scoter

P.S. To find out more about or to contribute to them, please do visit this link:

 www.mcsuk.org/30species

Hope I didn't scare you all with a dozen new names all at once. I had them mentioned since there's a critical issue that needs to be brought under the spotlight. There are two contrary real time examples i've mentioned below which i suppose is sufficient to give you guys an insight.

The 1st scenario:

Ever heard of these dashingly attractive Puffins, our feathery folks. A Puffin's main diet consists of Herrings, Hakes, Capelins, & Pipefishes ( in their preferential order ).

Due to climatic shift, the Puffin's have settled for a poor nutrient alternative i.e., the Pipefishes. The Pipefishes can be considered as the less nutritional food type for these Puffins. I know, that's definitely not a good sign. Just give a thought about the main reason for the change in Puffin's chief diet ( none other than climatic changes, recent studies say ).

Puffin carrying a Pipefish

The 2nd & completely contradictory scenario:

There are these particular types of feathered friends known as Sandwich Terns, sounds delicious huh..?? Oh come-on, quit that thought. They're birds & not the sandwiches we have nor do they prefer sandwiches ( I agree, the name's a little weird ). They've changed their food pattern & habits drastically from Herrings, Sprats, & to Sand Eels. Worst of all, the Sand Eels are increasingly scarce. And, yet again it's not evidently a good sign either.

Sandwich Tern carrying a Sand Eel

Though, quite contradictory both the scenarios deliver us a warning note on Climatic Change & its adverse effects. All these changes are direct results of our desires & greeds. And, yet again we've been dreadfully successful in harming nature. Now, lets move that all aside & act while we still can. 
Because, We have a Chance. We have an Obligation! 

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.” 

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As the skies shift from blues to greys.!

Growing air pollution does scare us ... Doesn't it?

As we all know, air pollution is the most deadliest form of pollution among them all. According to WHO  ( World Health Organization ), every 9 out of 10 people live in places where air pollution exceeds the safe limits. I know that sounds scary, but yes facts are meant to be spoken.

So, what does the growing CO₂ in the atmosphere & the alarming rise in the global amount of plastic consumption indicate ? So, what's the connection between growing CO₂ levels & plastic consumption? Well, here's the answer. For the past 13 years ( yes since 2003 ), Newlight Technologies have  been working on main aim of moving plastic out of the world on a global scale. Though, plastic has been the workhorse of modern economy it has to be reduced in terms of consumption.

Graphical data on
Plastic production

See the alarming increase in plastic production ?  What did Newlight Technologies come up with as a possible solution ? The answer is AirCarbon, the perfect plastic alternate but much better in terms of durability, also is it cheaper, greener ,& stronger. What is AirCarbon made up of?

It is made from pollution! Yes, it is made from captured carbon ( the same widely known ancient molecule ) but, AirCarbon ( basically a thermoplastic ) is much better than plastic since it is totally biodegradable ( unlike plastic ) & can also be moulded into different shapes  ( like plastic ). AirCarbon, is primarily made out of captured carbon ( methane-based carbon emissions, such as methane from dairy farms, digesters and landfills ) & the composition includes 40% Air and 60% Greenhouse gases. 

AirCarbon, plastic but made out of Carbon

How it's made ? 
It's simple ( oh come-on, it was under the making for 13 whole dedicated years ).

Initially, the reactor completely made up of stainless steel is filled with the air & captured greenhouse gas. These both are eventually made to flow towards the bottom of the tank where they react with a specialised biocatalyst ( the role of this biocatalyst is to pull out Carbon, oxygen & hydrogen out of the gases and rearranges it's preset arrangement ). So, it's like two different constituents into a tank with a special biocatalyst, reacts, rearranges, there you go - Voila! AirCarbon is born.

Now, that AirCarbon is born... where do we apply it?

It has already been applied in various fields like in extrusion, blown film, cast film, fibre spinning, injection moulding, & the posssibilities about to be discovered are endless. In the past 15 months, Newlight tech has £74 billion of AirCarbon in off-take purchase or licensed production agreements.

While, a dozen major companies have already pooled in their contributions to get benefitted from this revolutionary material Dell have already started using this as a packaging material for their products.

One things for sure, these are so true.

“Ideas are at the core of the modern economy.”

“Being imaginative is having ideas; being creative is converting ideas into production.”

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This week's App Digest is here!

Hello, everyone. Check out these cool must have apps for Android.

Are you really good at Physics & Mechanics..?? Well, test yourself with these amazingly animated apps like:

Drawtopia-Physics & Puzzles

[Price: Free; Pro- version available]

The goal of this game is very simple and that is to draw your way to victory in this stylish physics puzzles. Draw shapes, lines and dots to solve tricky brain challenges. It also has a boasting amount of 60 unique levels.

And, also does it claim to be the cross between Brain Dots & Brain It On! So, what're you waiting for??? 

Mekorama

[Price: Free; pay if you wish to]

Well, lemme ask you all a question; "Do you pity an innocent

looking tiny robot who lost his way Home?" Well, if the answer is YES then help this one out. It's totally worth it.

It not only involves the player solving 50 fascinating puzzling dioramas, but also does it provide an additional feature of creating your own dioramas with ease. It provides the player with a relaxing gameplay. It is also conveniently small sized & is lite on your device. 

   Well, enough of casual & puzzle apps to make your brain working longer hours than usual. Both those two apps mentioned above are damn addictive, i would rather say.

Now, calm yourself down with Music. So, aren't you tired & famished of using the same old preset Music Player that comes with the Device??? Actually, there are two exceptionally well built music player apps among a hundred of those available in the Google Play Store.

Minima

[Price: absolutely, free]

It has a totally cool futuristic interface, and also with totally awesome in-app transitions. It's exceptionally brilliant that it auto adapts it's UI according to the device it's installed on.

Sounds totally cool, right. Right now, it's got quite a lot of features like lock screen control, notification panel, & also the advanced player settings. So, go check it out guys.

Phonograph Music Player

 [Price: Free; totally, free]

It's by far the best I've ever come across with a totally minimalistic material design. Like it claims, the UI scores at customizability, right from the menu bar options, draw down menu, now play appearance, and much more. Whats really cool is that, it has an inbuilt theme engine which lets the user select from various colour gradient & shades to choose from.

Be sure to check it out.

Pulsar Music Player
[Price: Free; Pro version available]

With a dozen features even in the free version of the application, it also serves to be one among the best.
In the free version of the app, there are cool features like Tag editing, last.fm scrobbing, chrome cast support, ID3 Tag editing, Sleep timer, smart playlists, & much more. And, on top of all, they're totally ad-free like the other one's which have made it into the list. Be sure to try it out. 

  I guess, that's it for now. I'll get back with more worthy apps sooner. Until then, have a great time with these one's. 

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Why must fishes turn protandry for our negligence?

So, what's the effect of Birth Control pills on Fishes.? one may question.

Pills, Pills, Pills

Well, here's the answer. Almost every one's aware of what birth control pills are & also their purpose of consumption but, very few are aware of the adverse effect it has caused to our environment in the recent times. 

Ever heard of Hermaphrodites a.k.a, Intersex ??
Recent studies & analysis by various team of Scientists on aquatic ecosystem across the Globe leads to one conclusion. And, that is none other than this "Immature eggs 
( usually present in females ) are being discovered in significant numbers in the Male gonads of fishes like Salmon, Trout, & Roaches ( all three being economically important fishes ) ." Yes, you read it right. The exposure of Estrogen, ( a hormone responsible for development and growth of female characteristics ) & EE₂ ( Ethinyl Estradiol, an important component used in the common prescription pills like in birth control pills ) has induced a feminizing effect ( Male individuals turn develop female characteristics) on the fishes living in the respective ecosystem which contain quantities of these hormones in it, even in trace amounts. Unfortunately, there are many possibilities of these hormones to adulterate the water bodies that may lead to accumulation of these in the water bodies & eventually in the organisms living in it. Though, significant steps have been taken to treat the water before letting them into water bodies, trace amounts do make their way in.

Cross Sectional View of
   Testis of a Fish, portraying Immature Eggs

Ironically, the researchers are directing this study to analyze these effects on Humans who consume those fishes rather than the ecological imbalance which Humans have caused. It is we Humans who cause these adverse effects to our the harmless fishes.  

Finally, I'd like to end this post with another sensational & an alarming discovery, not only does this caused a domino effect of turning them protandry also have they increased the chances of cancerous tumours among the fish population! Yes, there's too much at stake. Yet again, not only have we been ( unfortunately ) successful in harming the environment for our desires & needs, also have we contributed in the development of Cancerous tumours among the fish population 

 ( though, not prevalent ).! 

But, there's a Always a Way! Isn't it???

Why should they pay the price for our desires?

"It's Never Too Late to make things RIGHT."

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Obviously, a Welcome post...!!!

Let's not take it too traditional nor too unconventional.

          First of all, we're glad that you chose A.T.S.E. Now, imagine the last time you indulged yourself in a blog which aims to provide realism. Here's to the one's who have already started wondering what A.S.T.E stands for, A for Apps (short in for Applications be it iOS or Android), S stands for Science, T refers to Technology, and E is none other than Environment (so, why Environment? Isn't it the odd one out from the above mentioned . Trust me, there's a reason). Well, here's the reason ...

 "The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us.The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone." by Ted Turner is not only a quotable quote but also does it deliver the urge for Environmental Protection. And, like the wise one's say," Everything in life... has to have a balance."

Isn't it, readers?

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