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November 26, 2013

If They Can Do It, Why Can’t I?… The Moment I Stopped Making Excuses

  (By Amanda Dai) “Scissors: One minute,” our coach orders succinctly. I inwardly groan, drained from doing all the conditioning sets before. After a month-long break in China, executing our new warm-up every morning is practically impossible. My legs force themselves off the ground and I drag my back off the carpet. I cross my […]

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Public university system heads for total shutdown as NASU strikes tomorrow

Public university system in the country is heading for a total shutdown as members of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, will tomorrow begin a nationwide strike to protest two months unpaid salaries by government. NASU members who are expected to shut down all social amenities such as power and water

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REALLY? Fear of bad luck can TRULY be reversed by touching wood and throwing salt, study claims

The fear of bad luck really can be reversed by carrying out rituals like touching wood and throwing salt, according to a new study. Touching wood is the most common superstition in Western culture used to reverse bad fortune or undo a ‘jinx’, while other cultures maintain similar practices, like spitting or throwing salt, after

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Would you eat bread made from INSECTS? Students turn grasshoppers into flour to feed people in poor countries

With millions of people across the world living in urban slums and an ongoing food shortage in poor countries, students from Montreal have come up with a novel and sustainable food source – flour made from insects. Dubbed Flour Power, the team from McGill University plan to farm grasshoppers in poor areas of countries including

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FANTASTIC: Usher Teaches The Alphabet With His Dance. Watch Now!

  Usher can dance his way into anything: music charts, women’s hearts, red carpets and his latest, dancing into the alphabet! The Grammy award R&B singer has never lost his dance moves, may never will, and he has just made the Alphabet easier just by associating each letter with a dance move. Usher was at Sesame

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10 Simple Ways To Build Your Personal Learning Network

(By Jeff Dunn) Getting online is easy. Finding a few resources is relatively easy. Finding useful (and real) people who can truly benefit your learning is quite difficult. That’s probably why there is such a big need for teachers, administrators, and even students to have a personal learning network (PLN). Whether it’s strictly online or

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ASUU STRIKE: FG begs primary, secondary school teachers not to start solidarity strike

  Federal Government, yesterday, appealed to Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, to shelve its proposed solidarity strike with Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The Supervising Minister of Education, Mr. Nyesom Wike, made the appeal in Abuja, at a meeting with the members of NUT on the proposed industrial action. It will be recalled that

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