The Ibiza Depression

Ibiza, the ideal place to go to on holidays; yet research has shown many return depressed and disillusioned.

Photos from Philip Larson’s and Adam Russell’s flickr

People save money for years in order to enjoy the life on Ibiza for a few weeks. A vacation to live up to. But when you arrive there, everything is different than expected. You’re not the only one in the expensive hotel. Your expensive hotel is one of the cheapest in comparison to the others, and your clothes, on which a lot of money was spent, are nothing different from other people’s clothes. You’re normal.

You always were normal. But when you’re, for 3 weeks, trying not be, you still are. What did you save all that money for? To live the life, partying all week, to find out it doesn’t help. Ibiza should have been the distraction, but it became the eye-opener. But realizing all this, you think, well, if it’s all for nothing, why not release the brakes and go wild? Which is exactly what people do. Drugs and alcohol, and not a little.

The worst part might still be coming back. Back to all, found out, you really are but don’t want to be. Some even end up with addictions, because of all the party drugs and alcohol from Ibiza.

The advise experts give to people who have a vacation to Ibiza planned but unable to cancel it? Make an appointment with a psychologist before you go; he will be busy when you return.

Have you been depressed from a holiday?

Change Your Age?

With stem cell therapy, 30 years could look like 20.

51 years old Lorraine.

Meet Lorraine Giannotti. Listening to the way she talks, you would decide that she’s a sweet teenager girl – delicate like how a child would tell a story. Yeah, she sounds sweet, but she’s 51 on that photo. That shocked me as well!

She had a stemcell facelift, and she attribute that for clearing away the stresses that bagged her face. I guess we won’t see that face for long.

Stemcell has been clacking some news these previous years. The scientists will extract cells from an embryo, which is undifferentiated yet. Meaning, those cells can potentially turn into brain cells, organ linings, skin dermis or any other. In essence, if you inject stemcells to a blind person’s eyes, it may rebuild the dead cells needed for sight. It may also repair heart tendons, or improve immune system. It could be anything your body needed.

The promise is a heap of a deal, but these scientists will have to extract cells from an emerging life, thus killing a chance of living. Of course, Catholic Church will go nuts if they extract it from human life. I would go nuts too. To lessen the crime, they resort to animal embryo, mostly from sheep.

That’s the battle – kill one life to save another. This is also another validation that human beings are dominant among any other beings on earth, but does dominance grant us the power to exploit other life forms?

Now, stemcell slipped to cosmetics. If it is pasted or injected to your face, it’ll regenerate fresh and young skin cells, thus making you look younger. That’s another subject for debate. Should we just accept aging, or should we welcome the aid of breakthrough technologies?

Are we the same person afterwards?

Lorraine said that she doesn’t intend to change who she is but to enhance the person that she was. There’s no reformation of nose or thickening of lips, only the disruption of the natural turnover of life.

How long do you wish to stay and look young?

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Source:
Stemcell Facelift Testimonial – Lorraine; YouTube

Cars Turn Invisible

These cars won’t leave any footprint – in the environment!

Photo from inhabitat.com

The prior month, Mercedes announced their invisible car invention. Invisible automation is science’s breakthrough technology in the coming years, and it’s hard not to love the idea.

My concern with invisible car is safety. Numerous are accidents on pedestrians hit by cars. Imagine it increased because turn off the cars’ visibility – it’s risky and suspenseful to cross the road. It’s like they’ve blinded us and we only have our hearing senses to depend on.

It should not be taken literally though. Invisible car is only a marketing strategy of the ostentatious car brand. They are set to produce their F-cell vehicles in 2014, claiming it as “virtually invisible to the environment”.

The promise is vast – an electric car fueled by hydrogen and emits water vapor as a repercussion. It’s the best economical product I’ve known in years. It thrashed gasoline dependency of motor vehicles, a depleting resource, and used what is abundant to the environment – hydrogen (only the most abundant in the universe!)

It can travel up to 240 miles, the first of its kind, and it’s Mercedes made. I don’t think I’d want to see the pricetag.

But really, this is what invention is all about – making our lives better. And it’s time include mother nature in the equation of our decisions. Gasoline only pollutes our air and even spills in our oceans. Just let it be underground.

Would you drive an invisible car?

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Deceitful Digital Enhancements

It’s crazy how PhotoShop can alter a person’s appearance.

Photo from sideshowsito.com

Photoshop is digital’s gift of enhancement. Photos are now easier to save. Got a bad lighting then adjust brightness. Restore your grandma’s pictures and prolong the memory. Even pose with Egypt’s pyramids, Africa’s cats or Palau’s sea of jellyfish without crossing any border. All possible, believable, thanks to Adobe.

It’s an aide to enticing posters, invitations and all. Remember seeing a puffy burger from the menu, but the actual one you’ve got was half its size? The photoshopped burger made you buy it, but really deceptive. It served most, if not all businesses and individuals too.

It’s a fun and fulfilling software to peruse. It’s magical how pimples disappear within seconds, graying hair re-colored, and fat trimmed. A few of that enhancements are acceptable, but to render you to look a different person isn’t neat. It’s not you anymore.

What’s the most editing you did in a photo?

Children: Robots Are Human

Robots are smart, encouraging, and supportive; like humans.

Photo from stock.xchng

From Forbes’ Technology Is “Almost Human,” Children Say,

Children “imagined robots would be socially successful because they were smart. The children also imagined robots that were better versions of their parents and teachers and offered them limitless time and patience. Conversely, they envisioned robots as being machines that would take on boring tasks so the children have more time for interesting pursuits.

“Robots support and encourage, but don’t judge. They don’t run into scheduling conflicts, and they certainly don’t ostracize kids for wrong answers or unconventional thinking.”

This is how children think of the robots in the future – our replacement. They desired better versions of us. These robots can do all the service that friends and parents give to children, but at the same time eradicate all the impatience, judgment, moral teachings and the negative attributes they think a human person has.

Technology is moving towards a future the children wanted. Digital books and online schooling are already replacing educators. Online but solitary gaming in Tablets and Smartphones replaced games that would’ve been fun played with other children. And with virtual assistance like Siri, they’ll have someone to talk to.

But the good and bad of human interaction helps a child’s personality development. They won’t get sympathy and emotions with machines. If we let the children to rule, they’ll grow up to produce robots that will cater to their offspring.

What makes you better than a robot?

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