The Truth About Goat’s Milk

Many say that it is hard to digest; others that it smells. But do not believe the bad press goat’s milk gets. If you have difficulty digesting cow’s milk, your doctor or dietitian may well prescribe goat’s milk products as an alternative. Although richer in proteins and fat, its fat globules are smaller and easier to digest. And what about the smell?

  Goat’s milk is, in fact, odorless. If you detect a strong, offensive odor, that may be because the goat was milked in unhygienic conditions or was in close contact with a male goat. Scent glands located behind the male’s horns produce a hormone that attracts the female. However, the hormone contaminates everything the male goat touches.

Which do you prefer, a cow milk or a goat milk?

Is Google following you?

Internet giant's latest mobile operating system tracks user's location even when Wi-Fi is switched OFF

Google's latest Android phone operating system has revealed a feature that will scan for networks and track user's locations even when Wi-Fi has been turned off.

The code used to build Android 4.3 claims that 'to improve location accuracy and for other purposes, Google and other apps may scan for nearby networks even when Wi-Fi is off.'

By identifying nearby Wi-Fi networks a device can determine a user's location and it can be used as an alternative to GPS.

The new feature of Android 4.3 means that even if a user disables Wi-Fi to save battery or conceal their location, for example, it will stay on and run in the background.

It also indicates that any location, or 'other' information obtained during this scan will be shared with Google or other apps installed onto a device.

Google is yet to comment on what these 'other purposes' could be.

According to Ron Amadeo from fan site Android Police, who discovered the code: 'Google wants you to leave your Wi-Fi on, or at least partially on, all the time.

'Now I know you might immediately scream 'MY BATTERY [LIFE!'] but this will probably save battery.

Google wants you to leave Wi-Fi on so that apps can get your location, but consider that the other option for location is firing up the GPS chip, which is a battery's worst enemy.'

The feature is turned off by default, according to users who have already downloaded the update.

Plus it can be enabled or disabled by going to Settings, Wi-Fi, Advanced Wi-Fi and checking, or unchecking, the 'Scanning always available' box.

Google rolled out its Android 4.3 Jelly Bean Over-The-Air (OTA) update for Google editions of the HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 handsets earlier this week.

The update to the operating system was announced in July during the launch of Google's 2013 Nexus 7 tablet.

It was first ported to older Nexus devices including Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10.

Google has introduced other features to Android 4.3 to increase privacy and security.

Its added support for encrypted KeyChains that let people store private information that remains hidden even if hackers break into the phone.

It has also moved the Verify Apps feature that scans any downloaded apps automatically for malware to the Google Play Services menu and added a 'Find My Phone' feature, if the handset is lost or stolen.

Other features include customisable multi-user accounts, restricted profiles, an advanced camera app and a new keyboard.

Android 4.3 has also added support for Bluetooth smart technology, also known as Bluetooth low energy. This means apps can connect to the low-power sensors used in fitness technology for example. 

At last, an end to Apple's uncomfortable earbuds!

Have you noticed that most ear buds never fit snugly?

One of the biggest offenders is Apple’s standard EarPods, which despite unveiling a new and improved design last year, are famously uncomfortable to wear.

Tired of constantly readjusting their EarPods, designers at Canadian group OHM decided to engineer a solution.

What they came up with is a relatively simple device named Sprngclip that helps Apple’s EarPods to stay put.

Users snap or slide each ear bud into a Sprng clip. They then insert and adjust each clip to make them fit.

‘As active folks, we noticed that our Apple EarPods continually fell out while we were on the move,’ said the company.

With some research, we realised that it wasn't our ears. We also didn't like the idea of having to buy a whole new set of earbuds designed to stay in our ears when we were active.

‘Simply supplementing the existing earbuds seemed like a less wasteful solution so we began working on a small, simple fix to the problem.

They were designed to fit more snugly in the ear in a bid to reduce noise leakage.

However, customers complained that they were uncomfortable and still didn't fit properly.

In a promotional video featuring Apple designer Jonathan Ive, described the EarPods as ‘a breakthrough for ears everywhere.’

‘Making one headphone to fit everybody's ears would be like trying to make one pair of shoes to fit everybody's feet — I mean it's impossible,’ he said.

Last month, Apple filed a patent for a pair of headphones that automatically adjust the volume of music if they're not inserted far enough into the ear.

Bacteria In Breast Milk!

Breast milk produced by mothers in the days following child birth has been found to contain over 700 varieties of bacteria— more than experts expected. Researchers are still working to determine the beneficial biological function of these bacteria in the newborn’s digestive and immune systems.

The most magical views of space, from the Milky Way over British landmarks to far flung Nebulae

Very few of us are lucky enough to see the Earth in all its glory from space and even fewer get to glimpse our planet from the Moon.

In fact the grandest view of the third planet from the sun that most of us are ever likely to enjoy is from the window of an airplane at a mere 40,000ft.

But thanks to the efforts of the likes of NASA and the images of the Earth from space that are relayed back from various manned and unmanned space missions, we're able to see our blue planet home from an alien's eye view.

The latest majestic images to make headlines showed Earth as little more than a speck in the distance above Saturn's instantly recognisable rings.

The pictures, gleaned back from the Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting the ringed planet since 2004, were taken from a distance of 900 million miles away and were only the third set of images of our planet taken from outer space.

But, according to Discover magazine, there have been a wide range of shots taken from slightly closer to home which show the planet from every conceivable angle.

On the same day that the Cassini spacecraft took its much celebrated pictures of the Earth from Saturn, the Messenger spacecraft took an interesting shot of the entire solar system.

The picture offers an insight into just how vast the solar system really is, with the different planets looking like tiny dots of light.

While the Apollo astronauts took pictures of Earth rising while they explored the moon, a Japanese spacecraft - the Kaguya - went a step better and took still images and a video of the planet setting behind the horizon of the moon in 2007.

An image of Venus crossing the sun over the Black Sea in Romania and astral clouds of rose-coloured gas revealing star formations in distant galaxies are just two of the incredible images shortlisted for the 2013 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

The Amazing Beauty of the Earth in Space

Very few of us are lucky enough to see the Earth in all its glory from space and even fewer get to glimpse our planet from the Moon.

In fact the grandest view of the third planet from the sun that most of us are ever likely to enjoy is from the window of an airplane at a mere 40,000ft.

But thanks to the efforts of the likes of NASA and the images of the Earth from space that are relayed back from various manned and unmanned space missions, we're able to see our blue planet home from an alien's eye view.

The latest majestic images to make headlines showed Earth as little more than a speck in the distance above Saturn's instantly recognisable rings.

The pictures, gleaned back from the Cassini spacecraft, which has been orbiting the ringed planet since 2004, were taken from a distance of 900 million miles away and were only the third set of images of our planet taken from outer space. But, according to Discover magazine, there have been a wide range of shots taken from slightly closer to home which show the planet from every conceivable angle.

On the same day that the Cassini spacecraft took its much celebrated pictures of the Earth from Saturn, the Messenger spacecraft took an interesting shot of the entire solar system.

The picture offers an insight into just how vast the solar system really is, with the different planets looking like tiny dots of light.

While the Apollo astronauts took pictures of Earth rising while they explored the moon, a Japanese spacecraft - the Kaguya - went a step better and took still images and a video of the planet setting behind the horizon of the moon in 2007.

Radioactive Fallout - A Matter of Concern

Following tests of nuclear weapons in the 1950’s, strontium 90 (Sr90), a by-product of nuclear reactions, was found in baby teeth. At the time, this was blamed for a surge in cancer among children.

Now, decades later, scientists associated with the U.S. Radiation and Public Health Project are concerned again. Dr. Janet Sherman, an internal-medicine specialist working with the project, explains that “Sr90 levels in baby teeth of children born since 1990 are reaching levels that were in existence during the above-ground testing years.”

Where is the Sr90 coming from? Some scientists point to past nuclear accidents, to radiation from properly functioning nuclear plants, or to the bomb tests carried out many years ago as possible sources. Whatever its origin, humans take in Sr90 by eating food from contaminated plants and drinking milk from cows that have eaten tainted grass. Since Sr90 is chemically similar to calcium, humans store the radioactive material in their bones, increasing the risk of bone cancer and leukemia.

The Globe also expresses concern about future generations’ exposure to radiation. “When removed from the reactor core,” the newspaper explains, “[nuclear waste] is about a million times more radioactive than when it was loaded. A freshly spent fuel bundle is reckoned to be so deadly that a person standing only a metre [three feet] away would die of radiation poisoning within an hour.”