Symbols

1. The origin of this symbol is 1970s when it started being used in medical bulletins, prescriptions, and drug (medical) catalogues. There is no specific country of origin, but it's most likely to be Western, either European or American.

2. The symbol means danger for habituation, which is representative of amphetamines (drugs that stimulate the central nervous system) and drugs with the opposite effect, such as morphine, heroin and similar narcotics.

3. The symbol is both emotive and ambiguous. It stands for dangerous substances so when the symbol is detected it evokes a feeling of danger and warning and "keep out". It is also ambiguous since it is a symbol for two types of drugs that have opposite effects on the body.

4. Problems of knowledge include misunderstanding the meaning because of its ambiguity or not knowing the meaning at all and not realizing the hazardous significance of the drug.

Source:
http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/28/2816.html

Save the Enets (Tundra) Language

Enets Children

Language: Tundra Enets Language

People & Culture:
The Enets (Tundra) language is spoken in the Taimyr Autonomous Territory, Northern Russia in the lower parts of the Yenisei River near the arctic circle. The language is from the Uralic language family from which also comes Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian. This language is also considered to be a sister language to the Forest Enets Language spoken south of the Tundra Enets people. The nomadic Enets are hunters and fishers who are known for raising reindeer.

Why Save Enets?
The Enets people have been suppressed by the collectivisation policies under the USSR and only recently have they been able to transcribe their oral language into writing. By saving the language we can learn the process of the transition from oral to written and the development of a newborn literary language which are extremely valuable to linguists and anthropologists. Moreover these people have lived in some of the most northern parts of the world and their legends and stories provide excellent insight into how human beings migrated and survived in the extreme north.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra_Nenets_language
http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/enets.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enets