Have discoveries and inventions men thought were once great achievements have all backfired and set ablaze a burning issue.

     We aren’t threatened only by terrorists and countries that back terrorism but by melting glaciers,global warming , tectonic activity , more Tsunamis ,fast evading fresh water , Decreasing ground water levels and lots more .We have been knowingly or unknowingly in war with nature to earn money and multiply our wealth for the sake of our children.At the end of the day we are satisfied that we have earned our children all the goodies that they deserve.But beware the future seems to be bleak.Your  son might have to sell his house for a can of drinking water, that is the scene that is set for our generations to come .Thanks to all the scientists and the industrialists  of the 19 th , 20th and the 21st century.

      I presume that we need to change the attitude of our focus on basic sciences. We have witnessed a paradigm shift in the past few centuries but in vain all seems to be misleading us. So science has not changed its course but our dimension of focus should be altered. This materialistic world has always been aligned to one goal and that is to make money immaterial of the resultant. Hope the next century commemorates a paradigm shift that will resume nature to its best form.Insight a alternative education system to elaborate on how science can be used to avoid all the consequences that we have applied for.

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Have you ever wondered how long ago men took to the sea?  According to a recent discovery on Crete, people—or perhaps even humans’ ancestors—may have been sailing the waves 130,000 years ago.  Up until Dr. Strasser and his team discovered  tools that “closely resemble hand axes fashioned in Africa about 800,000 years ago by H. erectus”, conventional wisdom held that about 50,000 years ago Homo sapiens, left Africa on foot, crossed the Middle East and finally settled Europe, displacing other hominids like the Neanderthals along the way.  However, if the date of these tools is confirmed, that story will have to change.

If these tools are as old as Dr. Strauss thinks they are, first of all, it seems that hominids (not necessarily our ancestors the Homo Sapiens) left Africa much earlier than we previously thought and they may not have gone on foot.  Dr Strasser is quite blunt about the implications of his find, saying “We’re just going to have to accept that, as soon as hominids left Africa, they were long-distance seafarers and rapidly spread all over the place.”

Heather Pringle, on her Time Machine blog, points out that this isn’t the first time ancient seafaring voyages have been proposed.  Two years ago, for example, Dr. Erlandson proposed that our ancestors may have “island-hoppers.”  The First Mariners Project built the kind of rafts that our ancestors (Homo Sapiens or Homo Erectus) may have used and tried sailing them.  It turns out to be possible.

But could Homo Erectus have had the mental wherewithal to build such a raft and make such a voyage?  Or a series of such voyages?  According to Heather Pringle, most archaeologists believe that “only modern humans possessed the necessary technological creativity to build a raft and the requisite intellectual ability to navigate at sea.”

Which is a good reason to look at Dr. Strasser’s findings with great caution—even if with great excitement.  Still—if these findings are confirmed, everything we thought we knew about us, how we evolved, and how we got here may need to be re-evaluated.

A functional family.

How do we define a dysfunctional family? It usually gets associated with parents, who in a very visible way, don’t love each other. Typically children don’t cause a breakdown in the proverbial happy family, but its the often poisonous home atmosphere of parents who in some way seem hostile to one another that make it “dysfunctional.” 

I would argue it has almost entirely to do with the perception of parents loving each other, and when this perception is broken a lot of things spiral downward. Parents, after all, lead families.

Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” Dysfunctional alcoholics.

More to the point, it all has to do with love. A loving family is functional, and an unloving one is dysfunctinal. It seems like our modern idea of a functional family is one that produces love for everyone, and a family that falls short of this gets the cold, depressing label of a “dysfunctional family.” The dysfunctional family is almost a tragedy.

The real question is: Is the demand that a family consistently produce a loving atmosphere, perhaps for decades, realistic at all?

Anthropologists label the families of tribal societies (families for the vast majority of homo sapien’s time on Earth) as “corporate descent groups.” As the name implies, the families acted as a a type of “corporation” or a self-protecting group where members received access to certain resources. Families have a clear function here; they ensure survival.

Arranged marriages in India echo this “corporate” nature of families. Romantic love is not the factor in marriage; it is resources and strategic alliances. Again, family here provides the resources for survival.

Our modern Western families, however, are mostly based on romantic love and few people marry for any strategic advantage. Where marriage is not based on romantic love, no one harbors the expectation of a “loving” atmosphere at home, but our love and romance oriented society redefines what it means to have a functional family. Is this love-function sustainable? 

Given the near 50% divorce rate in America, and given the well known psychology studies about the near inevitable “burning out” of passion as a marriage progresses, it is realistic to think that our families won’t always produce love. The sad part is that children suffer perhaps an unnecessary sense of flawed family life because our culture– as the epitomized family on the cover of any board displays — sets warm love as the norm for a functional family.

The body was very different from us as well. They had large round fingertips and long collar bones. There were large kneecaps, short shinbones and calf bones, short bowed shoulder blades, barrel-shaped rib cage and thick thigh bones. The arms and leg bones were twice as thick as ours. The pelvis was very long and odd shaped.

Paleontologists have found remains of Homo sapiens bones and skulls and it shows distinctive wear on the teeth which may be caused by chewing down hides in order to make them soft enough for clothing. If so, this would be the earliest evidence of earlier human making clothing.