The Fluorescent Lamp

Who is Agapito Flores? Many Filipinos acknowledge Agapito Flores as the inventor of the fluorescent lamp, which is the most widely used source of lighting in the world today.

According to Filipino scientists, fluorescent lamp was not named after Flores. The term fluorescence first cropped up as early as 1852 when English mathematician-physicist George Gabriel Stokes discovered a luminous material called "fluorspar", which he coined with "escence". The National Academy of Science and Technology also dismissed Flores being the inventor of fluorescent lamp as a myth. "No scientific report, no valid statement, no rigorous documents can be used to credit Flores for the discovery of the fluorescent lamp. We have tried to correct this misconception, but the media (for one) and our textbooks (for another) keep using the Flores example," a Filipino scientist wrote in her column at the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

The fluorescent lamps were introduced into the U.S. market in 1938. Still, Filipinos recognize Agapito Flores as the inventor of the product that illuminated the world.

The Philippines

My beloved country "Philippine" is now facing the 2010 Elections. Who will be the next President of the Philippine? I hope this is the start of the new clean government in the Philippines. Please bare with me and say a prayer to our country "Philippine"

What is GMO?

GMO means genetically modified organism. GMO is a plant, animals or a micro-organism that
the genetic code is changes, increase or decrease ( came from same or different species) to give a new feature.

Now, the scientist transfer the gene in between the species that can not be copulate - for example, gene of the goat and gene of a cow. This process called trans genesis. The transformation is limited in the effect into person and to an animal

There are different GMO.

The transgenic animal like the rat and the fish, transgenic plant and different kind of microbe (fungi and bacteria). There are many reason creating the GMO, One of this is use of GMO to studies to answer the important question in biology and medicine.

The GMO use in production in medicine and industrial enzyme. The most well-known use of GMO is the goodness of health of people ( gene therapy ) and to agriculture ( golden rice ).