Jinn of Quality and Risk

This is the single most important thing one can do for protection against nuclear fallout, especially for the sake of children. Buy bottles of 100-200 Potassium Iodide tablets, at a cost of about US $20; it should be available without prescription in your pharmacy, otherwise there are other potassium iodide sources you can easily find through the Web. One bottle per person should be enough. Oh, by the way, don't count on your government to do it for you.

Certain forms of iodine help your thyroid gland work properly. Most people get the iodine they need from foods like iodized salt or fish. The thyroid can "store" or hold only a certain amount of iodine. ... If you take Potassium Iodide, it will fill up your thyroid gland and block the uptake of dangerous radioactive iodine. This greatly reduces the chance that harmful radioactive iodine will enter the thyroid gland. [The American Civil Defense Association]

The Nuclear Blast and Fallout Shelters FAQ is a substantive guide. Few realize that shortly after any nuclear detonation anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, ... radioactive fallout [will be] raining down on [all other parts of that hemisphere]. Especially of concern, according to health physicists, will be plenty of thyroid contaminating radioactive iodine. All courtesy of the prevailing westerly trade winds blowing their nuclear fallout onto our shores a few days after any of them trade nuclear blasts with any of their neighbors. 

In academic circles, they are known as the "Schwarzenegger mice," laboratory animals whose bodies have expanded rapidly after the injection of a gene that causes muscles to grow. This line of research will help fight many terrible degenerative diseases, within 2-3 years already. In addition, it will lead to "interesting" athletes. Ultimately, most sports will be a mixture of advanced technology and human skills, like today's formula one car racing and bobsleigh; the only difference is that future technology will also be an integral part of the athlete's body. 

Summer fever and short-lived, exploding star courtesy of the FIFA: The improved syntactic foam layer, consisting of highly compressible and extremely durable gas-filled micro-balloons, has remarkable energy return properties and additional cushioning for enhanced control and accuracy. The logo symbolises golden energy, fire as a driving force, balance, and technological advance. During one month, you can follow online the first Football World Cup of the century (organisers of the Olympic Games may want to study and learn, sheesh).

I'll be rooting for Sweden and Brazil! Para o torcedor brasileiro, o Mundial na Ásia vai significar uma mudança de hábito: terá de se acostumar a assistir jogos de madrugada ou no início da manhã. 

When unseen doesn't mean non-existent (or: ignorance is not a valid argument): A small bird thought to have become extinct years ago has been rediscovered in Brazil. The bird, the golden-crowned manakin, was first found in 1957 — also the year it was last seen. ... [Pacheco] has rediscovered two other lost species in the last decade. One 'lost' bird ... hadn't been seen since the 19th century. And when cloning is politically correct: breakthrough in efforts to clone the extinct Tasmanian Tiger... The last known Tasmanian Tiger died in 1936.