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HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Impact of Plastics on Human Health Janvi Rathod M.Sc. Polymer Science ‘Plastics’ are non-biodegradable polymer / children’s. Another compound in plastics is ‘benzene’ substances which have legitimate uses of benefits to which is a ‘carcinogen’. the society but their ‘brazen misuse’ has led to As environment gets detoriated because of radically unsustainable conditions. In latest past few plastics and its disposal patterns the growth of decades the use of plastics and its disposing methods agricultural crops and plant diversity is affected are creating a threatening impact on humans. Some because the ‘burying of plastics in soil’ can release a incidences have attracted attention of whole world toxic chemical which gets penetrated in soil and plant for plastics. diversity and groundwater too! If ‘Humans’ consume According to the ‘US international report’ on such food than certain amount of chemicals enters ‘human consumption of plastics’, phthalate’s their body and this is dangerous for life. Plastic waste (compounds present in cosmetics and household keep detoriating with time and becomes a breeding plastic products) were detected in blood are urine ground for mosquitoes and other insects. When such samples of individuals. This tells us that the plastics mosquitoes bites human beings they are affected and have not only entered in world but in human anatomy, give rise to various diseases. human hormones and human blood stream too. The findings and research suggest that if you ‘Plasticizers’ are substances which are added consume 1 liter of bottled water per day, you could in plastics for its better properties; one most be consuming 10,000 of ‘micro plastics’ (plastic commonly known is ‘Di-ethylhexyl phthalate particles smaller than 5mm) each year. Some tests (DEHP)’ which is found in medical devices or tubing have been done on bottled water of top companies additives, in IV bags. “If you’re in a hospital, hooked estimated that 100% of top mineral water tests had up to an IV drip” the chemical that oozes out reaches traces of micro-plastics. directly into the bloodstream. This affects the New research published earlier this year has susceptible population especially Newborn’s. ‘DEHP’ shown that ‘household dust’ is more likely source for is a ‘toxic carcinogen’. micro plastics. The researches said that, 114 pieces ‘Plastic pollution’ is ‘rampant’ in water bodies. of micro plastics settle on dinner plates during the 20 The fishes and other marine creatures ingest the minute duration of meal, adding up to between 18,000- plastic bags lying on or inside water bodies and they 68,000 per year. In this way the micro plastics can get affected. A ‘direct toxicity’ of plastics reaches enter in human body. They said that tap water is much into them as mercury, cadmium and lead. This is safer to use than bottled water. So ‘Buy less, choose dangerous for human beings because they ingest such well’. affected fishes. ‘Plastic’ plays a ‘villian role’ from the stage of ‘Bis-phenol A’ found in plastics is compound its production and it is a challenge to dispose it off which can damage hormonal systems. It is found in because ‘human life’ and entire environmental fauna’ baby bottles, water bottles, food packaging, canned is harmed by its unproper use and disposal. ‘If you products, etc. If it is ingested than it directly reaches think that you’re at the end of something, than you to endocrine system thereby damaging hormonal are about beginning of something.’ system. It leads to reproductive malformations, brain damage, ulcerations, diabetes, growth deficiency in HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH g§ñH¥$Vr 2019 HHHHHHHH1 HH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Artificial Intelligence-boon or bane? Akanksha Sharma T.Y.B.Sc. Microbiology “Artificial intelligence is the science of making with the help of his self made-artificially intelligent machines do tasks that would require intelligence if computer and by exploiting simple laws of quantum done by men”. These are some golden words quoted physics and molecular physics predicted the evolution by some scientist about artificial intelligence. In our of Urey-Millers primoidal soup’. The results he found day to day life we come across many applications of were disturbing but he checked twice, thrice and four artificial intelligence which not all of us are aware times but the answer to the questions remained the of. Science due to its advancement has made this same. It indicated towards extinction of humans. world a brain and each one of us a brain cell Eradication of man kind by that I mean entire connected by neurons of artificial intelligence. An population but there was also something else another step by science after clearing our happening with the graphs he studied. There was superstitions to make us more practical and open to another species growing or emerging along with or change is robotics which implies the artificial population and this population slowly at up the intelligence to make manual work more and more mammalian or specifically human population just in comfortable and less tedious. Who thought that one the way we finished many plants and animals by day you’ll be able to know about anything in the world reforestation and wanton hunting. This new population by just swiping fingers on a flat cuboids of 5.5 inch.? was soon seen to be merging with the human Yes, off course a great person who thought of internet population. Here, we would again fing the need to without looking up to anything on internet. It’s human call wittaker from past to propose classification of tendency to get lazy when spoon-fed. Isn’t it exactly living species and here would come the sixth kingdom what we are doing? Getting lazier day by day and - the kingdom of ‘Humatics’ - Yes, I made it up, this letting computers, calculators and mobiles perform world doesn’t exist in oxford. silly tasks which a human brain can finish off in a This isn’t amalgamation of ticks and humans fraction of time. Theories say we cannot cope up but of robotics and humans. There will come a century even with the thinking of the beings we are evolved where in humans will be actually glued with some from. The cranial capacity of Homo sapiens sapiens robots and technology will take over. The reign of is now decreasing. We are losing the property for science will begin. What Kirsch discovered in the which one more ‘sapiens’ was added to our species. story might not make sense to people who don’t fill The year in which our cranial capacity with match books but I assume we haven’t lost total logic and with that of Australopithecus is not far off. We aren’t can see this coming in the near future. May be you evolving anymore, are we? We are devolving. and I won’t alive to live up to that era but this might The science which we invented to serve us, is be the end of human rule. You might be thinking how it making us slaves? All these artificial intelligence is is this answering our motto of finding if artificial it a boon or bane? Quite debatable right? Lets make intelligence is a boon or bane. The answer comes it simpler. here, to convey his findings Edmond needed a huge audience which he shared with his robotic assistant Dan Brown in his book Origin talks about this ‘Winston’. Winston being a machine made it his or magic wand of modern time - Artificial intelligence. its mission to be fulfilled. It posed as a fake journalist This story is about a futurist and a computer qeek- blogger and created type about Edmond’s Edmond Kush who is an athiest. He went on a mission presentation in the whole wide world. It gathered to prove the world that all that is preached by religions lackhs of views and subscriptions to meet his motto. isn’t true. Meanwhile, he solved a mystery of “where Edmond meanwhile kept working to brings this finding do we come from?” and ‘where are we going?’ public and once he said ‘Winston’ that he might probably the most intrigued thing in everyone’s soon consider planning his death as he was terminally ill to to be vertical organ-Brain. He looked into the future bring people’s eyes onto their screens to listen to his HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH H 2 HHHHHHHH g§ñH¥$Vr 2019 HHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH presentation. Machines unlike humans don’t simpler. Needless to say, we need to make a balance. understand the language of sarcasm, probability and We need to b intelligent enough to make efficient trusting. All they understand is COMMAND. Winston use of artificial intelligence or else we are dragging being a full proof artificial intelligence, robotic ourselves down the blackpole of utter ignorant and invention cum personal assistant of the futurist threatful life style. Edmond kirsh received it’s command... Imagine world going haywire due to illogical Edmond was assassinated publicly in mid of his commands perceived by logic gates of an efficiently presentation in front of entire world for a mere functioning machine. It is now we need to take up publicity stunt and later on the revelation of the the responsibility on our shoulders and become more assassin shook the readers. This book through out and more Logic-sawy and open to change. Evolution talked about boons of artificial intelligence showing is the ability of an individual to adapt to change and how luxuriantly Edmond lived but his own invention let me remind you ONLY THE FITTEST killed him because of a wrongly given command. SURVIVES. None of us want to perish and we need to work for that we need to make correct use of our We cannot completely reduce the use of human intelligence to use artificial intelligence technology in a day let alone the thought of living correctly.

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