Pleasant moments in space: Anousheh's diary خاطرات انوشه از فضا و چگونگی زندگی در بی وزنی

Space Travel Details Space Explorer — Anousheh @ 2:13 am
…that everyone wants to know: How do you take a shower in space? How do you brush your teeth? How do you wash your hair?Well my friends, I must admit keeping good hygiene in space is not easy! There is no shower or faucet with running water. Water does not “flow” here, it “floats” — which makes it a challenging act to clean yourself. So what do people do up here, specially the ones staying for six months at a time…? They improvise!There are wet towels, wet wipes and dry towels that are used for cleaning yourself. Usually each person gets a wet towel a day and couple of dry ones. Each person has a personal hygiene kit where they keep their stuff like toothbrush, shaving kit, creams , etc. I got Dice-K’s kit so it had a razor and lots of shaving cream, but no makeup Now brushing your teeth in space is another joy. You cannot rinse your mouth and spit after brushing, so you end up rinsing and swallowing. Astronauts call it the fresh mint effect The most interesting experience — or I should call it experiment — is washing your hair. Now I know why people keep their hair short in space. You basically take a water bag and slowly make a huge water bubble over your head and then Very Very Gently, using a dry shampoo, you wash your hair. At the slightest sudden movement, little water bubbles start floating everywhere. I’ve made some video of my hair-washing experience that I will share when I return Of course water here is a valuable resource, and is recycled so anything wet is not thrown out, instead it is left out to air dry. There is a water conduction collection unit that takes the moisture out of the air and recycles and purifies it. This includes your sweaty clothes after exercising. One of the cosmonauts once told me, “We are all very close to each other, we are like brothers and sisters, it is very unique because we drink each others’ sweat.” Now I know well what he means…There is exercise equipment here, a treadmill and a bike with the best view of the world in the Russian segment, and some resistance training equipment and another bike in the American segment. Astronauts and cosmonauts train every day, sometimes twice a day, to make sure they reduce the effects of weightlessness on their muscles and bones. Just in case you didn’t know, when people are in weightlessness for an extended period of time, their muscles start weakening and shrinking because they are not used as much. There is no gravity to work against, so everything is effortless. You also start losing calcium in your bones so you have a bone density loss. They always say you cannot have your cake and eat it too… So I guess all the beauty and excitement of space comes with a price. Of course I’m sure one of you guys out there will become a biologist or a doctor who will figure out how to counteract all these effects so we can travel long distances to Mars and other solar system planets and moons and continue our quest beyond our solar system…

Space Cadet,Anousheh

Spinach is highly nutritious اسفناج بسیار مقوی است

Spinach, noted for making cartoon sailor Popeye strong, may also help to ward off a common cause of blindness.
A team at the University of Manchester believe eating the vegetable protect the eyes.
Their theory is based on the fact that spinach, and several other vegetables, contain lutein, a chemical which helps form a key protective eye pigment. Lutein is found in sweetcorn, kale and broccoli, as well as spinach.
The Manchester team plan a study to test their theory.
Scientists do not yet understand why some people are susceptible, but do know that the disease is linked to smoking, obesity and poor diet.

What are the effect of veggies on your health?

One more step towards space exploration!قدمی دیگر برای کشف فضا و اسرار خورشید

Mission to uncover secrets of Sun

A space mission is blasting off to find out the secrets of the Sun.
The Solar-B satellite will take off from a space centre in Japan on a three-year mission on Friday. There won't be any people on board.
It will spend nine months of each of these years in sunlight. It has three powerful telescopes on it and aims to solve some of the Sun's mysteries.
These include finding out more about huge eruptions - called solar flares - that take place on the Sun's surface.
These can interfere with man-made satellites and threaten the safety of astronauts.
It's hoped the mission's findings could help space exploration in the future.
Space agencies from Japan, America and Europe are involved with the project, which has cost many millions of pounds.

Click here to find out more about space

Fables افسانه ها و حکایتهای اخلاقی را در اینجا بخوانید

Read nice fables:

http://www.umass.edu/aesop/fables.php

Interview with God مصاحبه با خدا

THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD

I dreamed I had an interview with God.
“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.
“If you have the time” I said.
God smiled. “My time is eternity." “What questions do you have in mind for me?”
“What surprises you most about humankind?”
God answered...

“That they get bored with childhood, they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.”
“That they lose their health to make money... and then lose their money to restore their health.”
“That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future.”

"That they live as if they will never die, and die as though they had never lived.”
God’s hand took mine and we were silent for a while.
And then I asked...

“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to learn

“To learn they cannot make anyone love them. All they can do is let themselves be loved.”

“To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.”
“To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.”
“To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love, and it can take many years to heal them.”

“To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.”
“To learn that there are people who love them dearly, but simply have not yet learned how to express or show their feelings.”

“To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.”
“To learn that it is not enough that they forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”
"Thank you for your time," I said humbly.
"Is there anything else you would like your children to know?"
God smiled and said, “Just know that I am here... always.”
Watch the flash movie of this interview here: http://www.theinterviewwithgod.com/

An email from God !ایمیل از طرف خدا

One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the evil that was going on. He decided to send an angel down to Earth to check it out.
So he called on a female angel and sent her to Earth for a time. When she returned she told God, yes it is bad on Earth, 95% is bad and 5% is good.
Well, he thought for a moment and said maybe I had better send down a male angel; to get both points of view. So God called a male angel and sent him to Earth for a time. When the male angel returned he went to God and told him yes, the Earth was in decline, 95% was bad and 5% was good.
God said this was not good. He decided to E-Mail the 5% that were good and encourage them, a little something to help them keep going.

Do you know what that E-Mail said?

Reply God's email.

Is mobile a queer tool?آیا موبایل وسیله عجیبی است؟

Half of 10-year-olds own a mobile
مزایا و معایب موبایل
It looks like you're a chatty bunch, as more than half of all 10-year-olds own their own mobile phone.
And by the time you get to 12, about nine out of 10 kids have their hands on a high-tech handset.
A study of more than 1,250 kids found most use their moby for texting more than talking, with most of you sending nearly 10 texts every day.
And they're more than just a gadget for talking to your mates, as 80% of kids said a mobile made them feel safer.
But a mobile doesn't just offer you freedom - 71% of parents seem happy to use them to keep an eye on you.

Mobile worries

And mobile phones also cause worries - some health experts reckon they might make you ill. That's because they send out waves of something called radiation.
Although there's no definite proof mobiles are dangerous, kids would be most at risk, because their skulls aren't fully grown yet.
The official advice is, that they should really only be using their phones to call people in an emergency.

Strange record holders!!!! رکورد عجیب

Eye-popping record holder شکننده رکورد بیرون آوردن چشم

Now this really is one record we don't think you would want to try for - this chap can pop his eyes out of his head!
Claudio Paulo Pinto can make his eyeballs stick out by seven millimetres, which is apparently a record in his home country of Brazil.
He's been doing the trick since he was nine, and has used his skill to work in a haunted house, scaring visitors.
But Claudio's got a way to go if he wants to get the world record of 11mm, held by Kim Goodman of Chicago.
Gross!
He reckons he's improving his eye-popping level all the time, so he might make this gross title his own.
In case you were wondering, and you probably were, Claudio says it doesn't hurt a bit.
But we really don't recommend trying this yourself.

First Female Space Tourist on Her Way to Space Station اولین توریست زن به فضا می رود

Boldly going where no female space tourist has gone before

Anousheh Ansari, a 41-year-old Iranian-American has become the first ever woman space tourist. She is also the first female Muslim and the first Iranian in orbit. Aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, she will travel to the International Space Station along with an American and a Russian astronaut. The self-confessed Star Trek fan reportedly paid around 23 million euros for her ten day trip.Ansari emigrated to the US from her native Iran aged 16. After graduating in electrical engineering, she set up a telecommunications company with her husband, which they then sold for hundreds of millions of dollars. Beaming up into space is, she says, the fulfilment of a childhood dream.

"I'm happy that not only my flight but the life I've lived, so far, becomes an inspiration for our youth - especially to girls and women around the world," she said. "Looking at my background they can see that sometimes the impossible can be possible, and dreams can come true."

http://www.spacescience.ir/Anousheh_Ansari.htm
http://www.anoushehansari.com/
http://spaceblog.xprize.org/

Living with your dreams! زندگی با رویاها و آرزوهایتان

She Dreamed of the Stars; Now She’ll Almost Touch Them

From a balcony in Mashhad, a city between two mountain ranges in northeastern Iran, a young girl looked up at the stars — far away yet close enough to kindle a dream.
“I’d lie there looking and wondering,” she said many years later. “I was so young but so fascinated with space; it’s always been in my heart.”
“I was born in Iran and lived there until the age of 16 and then moved to the United States,” she said, according to wire service reports. “So I have a lot of roots in Iran and feel very close to the Iranian people and the culture of the country.”
“I want to reach women and girls in remote parts of the world where women are not encouraged to go into science and technology jobs,” she said, “They should believe in what they want and pursue it.”
A guiding principle of her life, she said, is a quotation from Mahatma Gandhi: “You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
“This is what I am trying to do,” Mrs. Ansari said.
“I have the coordinates of certain pictures I like taken from space, and I want to see those places in person,” she said. “And I want to see the place where I grew up in Iran, where I first looked up at the stars.”

Texting Pains دردهای ناشی از تایپ و بازیهای کامپیوتری

Too much texting 'can cause pain'

Kids are being warned to limit the amount of time they spend texting and playing computer games because it could lead to aches and pains in the future.
Doctors say more and more children are coming to them complaining of tingling and numbness in their hands and wrists.
The condition is known as repetitive strain injury (RSI). It's brought on if your muscles are put under strain by doing the same movements.
Experts say they want kids to be aware of the condition and to take care.
Dangers
One doctor told Newsround: "We need to deal with it, or it will get worse."
The doctor said more needs to be done to teach kids about the dangers of texting and playing computer games too often.

Buy a New Pair of Shoes? کفشی که تعیین می کند چقدر باید تلویزیون تماشا کرد

Would you exercise to earn TV time?

A new shoe has been invented that controls how much TV you watch.
It records the amount of exercise you do by counting the number of steps you've taken, and then converts them into the amount of television you can watch.
The gadget - called Square-eyes - is placed inside a shoe and records the amount of steps the wearer has taken during a single day.
The information is sent to a device connected to the TV, which calculates how long the child can switch on for.
The TV switches itself off as soon as the time earned runs out. The gadget was made by university students.
"Square-eyes will help children to include exercise in their daily routine from an early age," said one of the designers from west London's Brunel University.
Do you think this is a good way of getting kids to exercise? Would you get active for extra TV time?
Maybe you think it's a bit extreme and kids should be allowed to watch TV as much or as little as they want?
Whatever you think, let us know.

TV Effects تاثیرات تماشای تلویزیون

TV violence 'encourages bullies'

Violent scenes on children's TV are leading to some kids getting bullied, according to a top Government official.
Education Minister Charles Clarke has called for programme-makers to be more responsible when filming kids' shows.
"Violence on television encourages people to grow up thinking violence is an acceptable way of operating," Mr Clarke told The Observer newspaper.
He also had a go at some children's shows for doing little to educate kids about the world and how to behave

Does TV influence what you eat?

Kids are picking up bad eating habits from watching TV, according to a survey.
Parents have complained that watching things like Homer Simpson's love of doughnuts is encouraging you to adopt an unhealthy lifestyle.
Does what you watch on TV influence what you eat?
When you see people eating chips and chocolate, does it make you want to eat it too?
Maybe watching shows like Jamie's School Dinners has encouraged you to eat more healthily?
Or maybe cookery shows make you try different foods?

Whay do you say?

A Message from a Space Tourist! پیامی از یک توریست فضایی

Space tourist's message to kids

A self-made man who has fulfilled his dream of blasting off into space has sent a message to young people, saying: "If I can do it, so can you!"
US businessman Greg Olsen reportedly paid £11m for his 10-day trip to the International Space Station.

"Hard work and determination has led me to where I am today and I encourage today's youth to dream big," he said.

While in space, Greg will share his experiences with 30 US high school students using a radio signal.

He completed 900 hours of training before lifting off in a Russian rocket from Kazakhstan on Saturday.

He becomes the third person to pay for a trip into space.

"Nowadays, everybody can fly every week. The same will be true with spaceflight - there will be more tourists after me," said Greg.

Technology in 2020 تکنولوژی تا سال 2020 چگونه خواهد بود

What do you think technology will be like by 2020?

A new survey reckons kids believe the future will be transformed by technology.
Many of you imagine jet packs and hoverboards will be used as transport, while robots could replace teachers in the classroom.
You also believe classes could include lessons in robot building, alien languages and celebrities.
So what do YOU think technology will be like by 2020?
Will robots take care of your homework?
Or will you get to school in mini-airplanes? What about making Sunday dinner at the touch of button?

HAVE YOUR OWN SAY.

Humanoid Robot رباتی شبیه انسان

Robots given skin that can 'feel'

Scientists are closer to making more lifelike robots after coming up with "skin" that is just like a person's.
The skin allows the robot to detect both pressure and temperature, which means it would know when something was touching it, or when it was warm.
The skin is thin enough to wrap around robot fingers, and is cheap enough to make lots of, say the scientists.
And there's a chance the new skin could be made even better than ours, as it may be able to detect other stuff too.
As well as temperature and pressure, the skin may be able to help a robot know if it is light or dark, or even if it is noisy.

An Iranian Space Tourist توریست فضایی ایرانی

Female space tourist to take off

The first female space tourist is set to blast off into orbit in September, after paying millions for her ticket.
Anousheh Ansari will be part of a Russian crew using a Soyuz rocket to get into space, and will spend 10 days at the International Space Station.
Ansari said she hopes her trip will inspire young people worldwide, "especially women and girls".
At the station she is going to make films she hopes will be used in schools to boost science and technology.
Ansari moved from Iran to the US when she was 16. She will wear an Iranian flag and a US flag on her space suit.

Are you the second space tourist?????!!!!

No Birthday Cake! !کیک تولد در جشن تولد ممنوع

Birthday cakes ban in US schools

American kids are being banned from taking birthday cakes into school to celebrate with their classmates - because it's too unhealthy.
A growing number of schools in the country are scrapping the celebrations, which has been a part of American life for many years.
It's thought that one in six school children in the nation is overweight.
The cake ban follows a country-wide campaign to stop kids snacking on food which isn't good for them.

Some schools are even being offered money if they stop selling pupils food which is high in fat and sugar.
People against the cake ban say it means kids are missing out on an important part of childhood.

The Smallest Teen کوتاهترین نوجوان در جهان

The world's smallest teenager?

A teenager is waiting to find out if he's the smallest man in the world.
Fourteen-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar is only 50cm high, and weighs just 4.5kg, which could be record-breaking.
He's apparently the smallest person in his home country of Nepal, and he's written to Guinness World Records to see if he can claim the world title.
A Guinness spokeswoman said they would decide after looking at all the medical evidence, and were considering flying him to England to be measured.
The current record holder for world's smallest living man is 65cm high Younis Edwan, who lives in Jordan.

'Very tiny'
"He was very tiny when he was born," said Khagendra's mother Dhana Maya Thapa Magar. "It was not possible to bathe him or clean him up because of his size. We had to hold him on our palm," she said.
Khagendra and his family are currently touring Nepal looking for funds to help support him.