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The Article linked above is about children in Ghana, Africa getting poisoned by chemicals that are in the electronic waste fields there. Its very informative and horrifying that we are one of the three largest contributors to these waste fields.

This article is especially disturbing considering I am a heavy user of computer components. There has got to be a better way to deal with this waste.

http://www.basel.int/TheConvention/MediaResources/NewsFeatures/EwasteattheITUGreenStandardsWeek/tabid/3348/Default.aspx I researched more on the Basel Convention and found out there was a conference this last week on E- Waste. It will be good to see what the more recent regulations and how to enforce them was discussed this week.

This site talks about how iron affected the culture in west Africa, how iron turned tribes into mighty kingdoms and allowed them to gain a plethora of resources skyrocketing there economy.

On December 5 2013 nelson Mandela passed away. he was a very influential person in his home country of South Africa, because he was the first elected president and he actually stepped down when his term was up unlike many tyrants in the area and before him

One glaring fact from the latest report on the Ebola outbreak is that five of the many study authors are dead, killed by the disease that is roiling west Africa.

Have you been watching how politicized this issue is getting?

The science in this article is a bit challenging to understand, but I think I understand that aspect of this issue better.