Hidama's blog

"About 6,000 people a day — most of them children — die from water-borne diseases.

Vestergaard Frandsen, a Danish textile company that supplies water filters to the Carter Center guinea worm eradication program and mosquito-killing plastic tarps to refugee camps, has come up with a new invention meant to render dangerous water drinkable

The invention is called Lifestraw, a plastic tube with seven filters: graduated meshes with holes as fine as 6 microns (a human hair is 50 to 100 microns), followed by resin impregnated with iodine and another of activated carbon. It can be worn around the neck and lasts a year. "  Read More »

An article was released today by Lou Dobbs, posted on the CNN website, entitled "Middle class needs to fight back now."

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"Our country's middle class is not just collateral damage in what has become all-out class warfare. Political, business and academic elites are waging an outright war on working men and women and their families, and there is no chance the American middle class will survive this assault if the dominant forces unleashed over the past five years continue unchecked."  Read More »

I'm a jack of all trades, and master of none when it comes to languages.  I've learned at various levels  French, German, Spanish, Latin, and Japanese, and I'm excited to be spending a summer in Xi'an, China, to start learning Mandarin. I love learning about the evolution of languages and the cultures they represent. And many young and old Americans miss out on these opportunities to experience other cultures.  Read More »