Bonnie Chiu has used photography to express herself for as long as she can remember. But it was a chance encounter with a group of teenage girls in Istanbul, Turkey, that changed the way the 22-year-old looked at the art forever.

Despite speaking different languages, Chiu and the teenagers were able to bond over their fascination with her camera.

"I realized then how photography is a universal language, and can transcend cultural barriers," she tells Mashable.

The exchange made Chiu think about how many women and girls around the world don't have access to cameras. It prompted her to create Lensational, a social enterprise that uses recycled and donated cameras to organize photography workshops for underserved women, allowing them to capture their world and tell their own stories.

With zero funds and a dream to create a system that connects marginalized women across the globe, Chiu launched Lensational's Facebook page on International Women's Day in 2013.

"I shared a few articles related to International Women's Day and I uploaded the photos I took of the four Turkish girls, and that's how the whole thing got started," she says...

A high-ranking cybersecurity official who has just left the Obama administration says the battle between the government and the tech sector over encryption is already over, and the tech sector won.

Ari Schwartz was the Obama White House's senior director for cybersecurity until the end of September, and he is starting a new job with the law firm Venable as managing director of cybersecurity services on Monday.

In an interview with CNBC, he shared his thoughts on the debate over a U.S. tech sector that, largely in response to the Edward Snowden revelations, has begun selling nearly unbreakable encryption to its customers. American law enforcement and intelligence officials, led by FBI Director James Comey, have argued that such encryption means many valuable leads will "go dark" for investigators trying to solve crimes and prevent terrorism.

But Schwartz said law enforcement can't win the debate.

"Stronger encryption is inevitable," he said. "Law enforcement is going to have to learn to work in that environment."

Justin Adams, global managing director, lands, at The Nature Conservancy contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

This is a big year for the planet. Just look at the United Nations' calendar.

Just last week, the global community saw the launch of the U.N.'s new and ambitious 15-year Sustainable Development Goals. And in December, leaders will be convening at the U.N.'s Conference of Parties (COP) 21 in Paris with the hopes of coming to a worldwide agreement — after more than 20 years in the process — to reverse runaway carbon emissions and minimize climate change.

Music's good for you. Study after study has shown what an early education in music can do for your memory and your math skills. It can make you more empathetic. It strengthens your motor skills.

But as we've pointed out before, you get those benefits only if you actually pick up a saxophone or a sousaphone and make an effort to learn to play the darn thing. Goofing off in the back of band class isn't going to do it. Cranking up the music, slapping on the Beats and tuning out the real world doesn't work by itself.

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That said, even for those of us who may not know the difference between a piano and pianissimo, music can have a tangible effect on our everyday lives.

Here are four surprising ways that music can mess with your brain:

1. Music can get you ready for love …

We all knew this, right? "Blueberry Hill"? Beyonce? Barry White, anyone?

Well, scientists have been studying this for some time, and yes, music will get you going. Maybe it takes more than some deep-throated R&B master to consummate that romantic relationship. But in a 2010 study, researchers put on what they deemed "romantic" music (and, for another group, some "neutral" music), had some 18- to 20-year-old women listen to it, and then subjected them to a fake marketing survey given by a young man.

The survey ends, the dude asks the girl for her phone number and … "How do you like them apples?"

"It was found that women previously exposed to romantic lyrics complied with the request more readily than women exposed to the neutral ones," the researchers concluded.

2. ... or definitely get you out of the mood

German researchers in 2006 published a study in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin that looked at the effects of sexually aggressive songs and how they impacted thoughts, emotions and behaviors.

The takeaway: If a song can be described as sexually aggressive, it's a mood killer.

"Male participants who heard misogynous song lyrics recalled more negative attributes of women and reported more feelings of vengeance than when they heard neutral song lyrics," the study shows. "In addition, men-hating song lyrics had a similar effect on aggression-related responses of female participants toward men."

3. It can make your wine taste better.

There's some science here, too. It's not complete, by any means. But a 2010 paper in the British Journal of Psychology studied 125 men and 125 women who drank a glass of wine while listening to four distinct types of music. The author, professor Adrian North (who was at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the time), concluded that, "independent groups' ratings of the taste of the wine reflected the emotional connotations of the background music played while they drank it."

The music ranged from a Tchaikovsky waltz to a Depeche Mode cover, and the wine was Chilean, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. When the wine drinkers were listening to heavy, powerful music, that's how they perceived the wine to taste. When the music turned mellow, so did the taste of the wine.

"These results indicate that the symbolic function of auditory stimuli (in this case music) may influence perception in other modalities (in this case gustation)," North wrote.

4. It can change the way you think.

More than simply getting you in a mood or influencing how you feel, a study suggests that music can make you reconsider your thinking or change your mind.

It all has to do with something called the Construal-Level Theory (CLT) of Psychological Distance. One of the tenets of the theory is that the farther something is perceived to be from someone, the more abstract it is. As it gets closer, more details emerge and the concept becomes more concrete.

Two psychologists, an Austrian and a German, played alternating chords to subjects in a 2014 study, at different speeds and with other effects. They were attempting to see if listening to these specific sets of chords — a kind of less-structured, more abstract tone, and a more familiar, concrete one — would get the subject to think in a more abstract or concrete way.

It worked. When asked to group shopping items, the ones who listened to the abstract chord grouped the items in fewer categories. They were thinking more broadly, with fewer broader categories. When the other, more familiar chord was played, the subjects formed specific categories, and more of them.

Music — simple chords — changed how people perceived the world around them, how they thought about it and how they reacted to it.

And all they had to do was listen. Nobody even had to pick up a sousaphone.

When I first entered into entrepreneurship, I took the idea of bootstrapping seriously, especially when it came to business travel. In fact, my business partner and I would take "budget traveling" to all new levels, often sharing hotel rooms that required us to wear socks at all times and sleep fully clothed on top of sheets.

Our goal was to save money, even if that goal required us to sleep with one eye open.

It was a number of years later when another entrepreneur and good friend suggested that the reasons people start businesses is so they can plan mini-vacations with business travel and expense the entire trip as business. He was mostly kidding, but the small part that was serious really hit home.

By strategically scheduling personal downtime in and around events, and by looking at the expense of travel as an opportunity rather than a burden, I was able to turn business travel into something far more enjoyable -- and actually enjoy my sleep while traveling.

So, as I plan for my visit to New York for this week's Entrepreneur 360 Conference, here are a few tips to help you mix a little pleasure into your next business trip.

1. Venture away from your destination.

On numerous occasions, I have attended a conference or trade show only to stay in the hotel that was hosting the event. While this was more convenient at times, especially during a conference heavy in events, I never had a reason to leave and therefore rarely ventured out to explore the city.

If your business travel permits, consider a hotel a few blocks away from your primary destination. When it is time for meetings, just take a walk and explore the city on the way. Research popular places to visit and map routes ahead of time. While you’re at it, check into and consider extending your stay for local events, such as outdoor concerts and other cultural happenings.

2. Connect with others.

Before you schedule your business trip, reach out to friends and associates that may live in or near your destination. In addition to being a great resource for things to do and places to see, your local friend might be able to help you schedule and secure rooms or reservations. Again, it is a great opportunity to meet up with associates or reconnect with old friends as part of your business trip.

Related: What Your Travel Experience Will Look Like in the Not-So-Distant Future

3. Schedule contingency time.

Traveling by plane has never been easy. Long security lines and delayed flights are but a few of the expected pains of airline travel. The airlines’ practice of double-booking, however, is one pain that offers opportunities for the ready traveler.

Next time you travel by plane, schedule flexible time before and after your flights. Since many airlines offer compensation to passengers who voluntarily give up their seats in the case of an overbooking, you can be ready to take advantage of the situation.

CHENNAI: Forest department and the tree lovers in Chennai are busy planting saplings in and around Chennai, as they have left only one more month to complete their work.

While forest officials have taken up planting in various reserved forests and industrial units on the city's outskirts, nature lovers on their part plant saplings near temples and on private patta lands.

Forest department sources said their target for this season is one lakh saplings which has been distributed to three reserved forests and small industrial units in the neighbouring Kancheepuram district.

A senior forest officer said they have already planted 70,000 saplings in the three reserved forests in Thaiyur, Mambakkam and Siruvanjur. The remaining 30,000 saplings will be planted in the industrial units in the district. These units are located just outside the city limits.

D Narasimhan, associate professor, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram, says naturalists can start planting saplings from the month of September and can continue till November end.

There will be good showers during this period of the year, secondly the required moisture and warmth will be available for the new saplings to grow and thirdly with water availability, the roots will start establishing well after a rain. Hence, the tree lovers take up the planting work now, he says.

Manimaran T of Safe Trust, who is planting saplings in Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur and Vellore districts, says his organisation has already completed planting of 2,000 saplings on various private lands as well as at temples. In the temples the Trust identified the suitable 'Sthalaviruksham' trees.

Manimaran says another 1,000 saplings will be planted before the end of this month, as their target is totally 3,000 saplings.

Mere planting of saplings is not sufficient. The planted saplings should not be allowed to be cut at any cost.

For the past 15 years, the Thames Talbot Land Trust (TTLT) has been committed to protecting the natural and cultural heritage of London, Middlesex, Elgin, Perth and Oxford counties.

Founded in 2000, the TTLT has been actively working towards fulfilling its mandate of protecting land and waters having natural recreational, scenic, historical or agricultural value along the Thames River watershed and historic Talbot Trail.

On Sept. 17, TTLT officially launched the public portion of what is the organization's most ambitious fundraising project yet, the $1.6 million Soaring Higher: Hawk Cliff and Beyond Campaign.

Stan Caveney is the Hawk Cliff campaign director. A biologist by trade, Caveney explained this particular parcel is unique in Elgin County where there is as little as 15 percent forest coverage remaining today from the original Carolinian forest that once blanketed the region. To have a large block of forest such as this still intact” over 200 acres” is substantial for the area.

He also pointed out it isn't just the trees themselves that make it important, but also what can be found within the borders of this deep forest woods.

Long a destination for birders, who use it as an observation point to see more than 20 different types of birds of prey, migrating songbirds and Monarch butterflies, other rare birds such as the Acadian Flycatcher and Louisiana Waterthrush can be found in the woods.

As the latest jewel to be added to the trust's list of properties, Caveney described its value as priceless.

About half of the campaign's goal of $1.6 million will go towards the actual purchase of the area known as Hawk Cliff Woods with the balance earmarked towards stewardship of the property and restoring depleted funds in the TTLT's war chest, money which it uses to fund other projects and programs.

A lot of people approach the trust looking to sell them their property in the course of a year, said Linda McDougall, TTLT president and board chair, .

Even just the process of considering each offer is something they have to look at objectively, she said.

We have to think very seriously if it makes sense to protect the property in question. Is their land of cultural or natural significance in that location? We have a lot of biologists folks who would go and assess the property to determine that, explained McDougall. If their land isn't, we have to say thank you very much, it is not something we are interested in. But if it is, she said, the proposal still has to go before the board and land securement committee where they weight the pros and cons of a property before choosing to take it on and ramp up a campaign to protect it.

Properties classed as core habitat like Hawk Cliff Woods are rare, commented McDougall, and as such, make its acquisition priority one.

For the current property owner, Cheryl Barendregt, knowing the land is going to be protected and preserved for future generations is really what it's all about. Biological and environmental considerations aside, she said there is a spiritual aspect and an energy associated with Hawk Cliff Woods.

We live in a biologically complex world, which is populated not only by humans and other large animals, but also by a plethora of other organisms, some of which are harmful or deadly to us.

A variety of parasites cause disease. A medically important group are the parasitic worms (helminths), which are estimated to afflict one third of the world’s population and are particularly prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Central and South America. River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis are two diseases caused by parasitic worms. As the name implies, River Blindness (Onchocerciasis) ultimately leads to blindness, because of chronic inflammation in the cornea. Lymphatic Filariasis, afflicting more than 100 million people, causes chronic swelling and leads to life-long stigmatizing and disabling clinical symptoms, including Elephantiasis (Lymphedema) and Scrotal Hydrocele (Figure 1).

Malaria has been with humankind for as long as we know. It is a mosquito-borne disease caused by single-cell parasites, which invade red blood cells, causing fever, and in severe cases brain damage and death. More than 3.4 billion of the world’s most vulnerable citizens are at risk of contracting Malaria, and each year it claims more than 450 000 lives, predominantly among children (Figure 1).

From bacteria and plants to novel anti-parasite therapies

After decades of limited progress in developing durable therapies for parasitic diseases, the discoveries by this year’s Laureates radically changed the situation.

Satoshi Ōmura, a Japanese microbiologist and expert in isolating natural products, focused on a group of bacteria, Streptomyces, which lives in the soil and was known to produce a plethora of agents with antibacterial activities (including Streptomycin discovered by Selman Waksman, Nobel Prize 1952). Equipped with extraordinary skills in developing unique methods for large-scale culturing and characterization of these bacteria, Ōmura isolated new strains of Streptomyces from soil samples and successfully cultured them in the laboratory.

Apple on Monday launched its new Hermès luxury leather collection for Apple Watch with in-store-only sales at select locations, with models starting at $1,100 U.S.

The Apple Watch Hermès collection is available in a total of 10 different style and size combinations. The hardware itself is based on the stainless steel Apple Watch, but the device is paired with a leather band made by Hermès, a legendary Paris-based fashion brand.

In addition, the Apple Watch Hermès collection also comes with special clock faces based on the Hermès branding, which are exclusive to the hardware. Etched into the back of the hardware is the Hermès name as well.

The Single Tour buckle design comes in the colors Fauvre and Noir in the 42-millimeter size, while the 38-millimeter model is available in Fauve, Noir, and Capucine leather bands. Pricing on the Single Tour starts at $1,100.

Apple and Hermès are also offering a Double Tour design that can wrap around the wrist twice. It only comes in the 38-millimeter size, and is available with leather bands in Fauve, Etain, Capucine, and Bleu Jean. Double tour pricing starts at $1,250 U.S.

The tenth and final configuration is the Cuff model, which features a much larger leather band, and is only available in Fauve color in 42-millimeter size. It's priced at $1,500.

The Apple Watch Hermès collection is not available to purchase online, and can only be found in a handful of Apple and Hermès stores across the globe. For example, in North America, the Hermès variant of the Apple Watch is only available in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, and Toronto.

Satya Nadella earlier this year outlined a bold if somewhat Quixotic vision for Microsoft's future. With the arrival of Windows 10, the company would continue to own the PC and laptop market, while starting a journey that will ultimately make it a dominant player in mobile – a segment where its previous efforts have failed miserably.

We have bigger hopes, higher aspirations for Windows, the CEO said, speaking in January at the company's Redmond, Wash. headquarters. We want to move from people needing Windows, to choosing Windows, to loving Windows.

On Tuesday, at an event in New York City, the public will get its first look at a host of new devices that will go a long way in determining whether Microsoft can realize Nadella's ambition. The company will roll out tablets, smartphones and wearables like the Band 2 that represent the first batch of products designed from the ground up to take full advantage of Windows 10's impressive capabilities.

The Surface Pro 4, for example, will have the Cortana personal assistant baked into the OS and will feature the new Edge browser. The new Lumia 950 smartphone is expected to be able to connect to a full-size monitor through a feature called Continuum, and a rumored slimmed-down Xbox One could allow for cross-platform gameplay on consoles and televisions. There are no coincidences here. Microsoft built Windows 10 to run seamlessly across desktops, tablets, phones, gaming systems and even futuristic products like the HoloLens virtual reality headset. The hope: consumers want to live in a world where they can log on to any device and their email, contacts and all their other important stuff is just there, and will flock toward the first ecosystem that truly provides that.

China's "Great Firewall" may have been partly to blame for the first major attack on Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) App Store, but experts also point the finger at lax security procedures of some big-name Chinese tech firms and how Apple itself supports developers in its second biggest market.

A malicious program, dubbed XcodeGhost, hit hundreds - possibly thousands - of Apple iOS apps, including products from some of China's most successful tech companies used by hundreds of millions of people.

Palo Alto Networks, the U.S. internet security company that spotted the problem, says the attacker could send commands to infected devices that could be used to steal personal information and, in theory, conduct phishing attacks.

The hackers targeted the App Store via a counterfeit version of Apple's Xcode "toolkit" - the software used to build apps to run on its iOS operating system - which Chinese developers used because they could download it faster.

"I would use the phrase 'convergence of ignorance and complacency'," said Andy Tian, CEO of Asia Innovations, a Chinese app developer. "Ignorance on the side of Apple, complacency on the side of Chinese companies."

The incident was a blow to the reputations of some of China's tech champions, in what some app makers saw as collateral damage from the tight controls Beijing places on the Internet within its borders, and weak infrastructure linking to the outside world, that make overseas downloads patchy and slow.

Companies affected by the XcodeGhost attack included Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK), one of the world's biggest internet firms, and Uber Technologies Inc's [UBER.UL] biggest challenger, Didi Kuaidi, which just completed a $3 billion private fundraising round.

Tencent, whose WeChat messaging service is one of China's most popular apps, and Didi Kuaidi declined to comment, beyond saying that they had fixed the issue and users' data had not been compromised.

NetEase Inc (NTES.O), whose music streaming app was also hit, issued a mea culpa on its official Weibo microblog, apologizing to users for negligence.

"HUGE MISTAKE"

The App Store had previously been almost entirely free of malware, and it is unclear how the altered code withstood Apple's famously tough app approval process, in which developers often wait a week for reviews of updates to their apps.

"These reviews are legendary for how particular Apple is," said Robert Walker, founder of mobile dating app Cuddli who worked for Microsoft in China.

"Supposedly, a security review is part of that. But they missed this repeatedly over dozens of different applications. A huge mistake on their part."

An Apple spokeswoman did not respond to questions about the app approval process and why developers in China were using unofficial Xcode, but a senior executive said on Tuesday the company would make it easier for Chinese developers to download its tools.

Marketing chief Phil Schiller told Chinese news site Sina.com it would offer domestic downloads within China of its developer software.

Some Chinese firms had said they were pushed to download Apple's developer toolkit from unofficial sources in China because of the slow internet speeds when connecting to international services.

The country's censorship architecture, dubbed the Great Firewall, does not block app developers from downloading the official version of Xcode, but the controls, along with low investment in infrastructure for international connections, make using services based outside China a painful process.

The world's second-largest economy has average internet speeds more than three times slower than those in the United States, according to online content delivery firm Akamai's latest State of the Internet report.

Slow internet connections, along with government censorship, have long been a top concern among foreign businesses in China.

The issue has been exacerbated in recent months by crackdowns on tools used to circumvent the Great Firewall, such as Virtual Private Networks.

Have a shucking good time at Oysterfest at the Newman Street Tavern, discover more about the beautiful textiles of India at the V&A's latest exhibition, or reminisce about your youth at a quiz dedicated to childhood. Have yourself a great one with the list below!

Things to do

The Cultural Salon, Shangri-La Hotel at The Shard, Tue, £20. A series of cultural talks with a view, these events (focusing on design, art, literature, fashion and music) take place high up The Shard. Guest speakers are chosen according to the 'East meets West' theme, and tickets include champagne and canapés.

RHS London Harvest Festival Show, RHS Lindley Hall, Tue-Wed, £5, £8 on the door, RHS members free. Some of the UK's finest nurseries, growers and independent producers will cart their harvest produce to the Royal Horticultural Society this October for their annual celebration of autumnal fruit and vegetables.

Christie’s Lates, Christie's South Kensington, Tue, free. This month's late event focuses on the art of collecting and restoration. Guests can win prizes if they're able to distinguish original antiques from exceptional copies, and you can explore objects destined for upcoming auctions.

Fungi Breakfast, The Holly Bush, Wed, £35. A two-hour walk offering an introduction to fungi found on Hampstead Heath and the places you'll find them flourishing. Your outing will be followed by a cooked breakfast of eggs, bacon and mushrooms (not the fruits of your morning's meander but supplied by 'official sources') at the Holly Bush in Hampstead.

Hello Love Festival, Paper Mill Studios, Thu, free. This four-day festival aims to provide a platform for people to talk, think and learn more about cancer through a series of events, activities and exhibitions promoting healthy and sustainable living.

Laptops, tablets, and similar devices are ever more prevalent in today's classrooms. Yet greater availability and use of technology at school doesn't necessarily lead to better educational outcomes, a recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development shows.

The report, which included data on nearly 60 countries, examined students' computer use at home and in school as well as their performance on written and digital tests. It found that while students who use computers moderately at school have somewhat better outcomes than those who don't use them at all, those who use them very frequently tend to do significantly worse, even after accounting for students' and schools' socioeconomic status.

The findings come at a time when adoption of technology in classrooms is steadily growing. In 2014, shipments of desktops, laptops, and tablets to schools and higher education institutions in the US totaled 13.2 million, 33 percent more than the previous year, according to market research firm IDC. Among the 34 OECD countries, 72 percent of 15-year-olds said they used a desktop, laptop, or tablet in school in 2012 (the year the report data was collected).

While the amount of technology available to students at school was positively linked to their test performance, the authors noted this could be a function of more available educational resources overall. When they accounted for variations in per capita income across countries and past performance on the same tests, they found that countries that invested less in introducing technology in schools actually improved faster, on average, than countries that invested more.

Helping kids build strong conceptual skills in reading and math will do more to create equal opportunities in a digital world than expanding or subsidizing access to high-tech tools, the authors argue. Investments in computers compete with other priorities, they noted, such as hiring more teachers.

There is clearly a gap between the expectations that justified these [technology] investments, and the impact that they had on students' learning, report author Francesco Avvisati, an analyst at the OECD, said in an e-mail. The link between more computers and better learning is not a direct one. . . . We need to get this right, urgently.

Technology undoubtedly holds great potential for enriching education, the report noted, including expanding opportunities for collaboration and connecting learning to real-life challenges. Parents feel largely positive about technology's promise; in a survey of parents of third- to 12th-graders this year by the business and economics news program Marketplace, 71 percent said that technology has improved the overall quality of their children's education.

Parents can play an important role in helping kids benefit from technology by helping them assess the quality of online information and set boundaries around use, said Yalda Uhls, a child psychologist and author of the book Media Moms and Digital Dads: A Fact-Not-Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age.

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