If you’re the sort of person who worries about asteroids, a new map from NASA’s Near Earth Object Program is unlikely to offer much reassurance. It shows that during the 20-year period from 1994 to 2013, the Earth’s atmosphere was hit by small asteroids resulting in fireballs (bolides) on at least 556 separate occasions–or essentially
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Today, November 19, is a day set aside by the United Nations to address issues relating to proper sanitation. This article, therefore, is to help you stay germ-free when using a public toilet. Most people wince at the thought of using a shared toilet, with door handles potentially riddled with germs and dubious looking stains
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Kissing just got a whole lot less romantic–at least for germaphobes. A new study shows that a single French kiss can transfer up to 80 million bacteria from one person to another. For the study, 21 couples visiting a zoo in Amsterdam were asked to lock lips for 10 seconds. Before the kiss, one member
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Top Nigerian act, Orezi was on Thursday, November 13, 2014 kicked out of the Redeemer’s University’s premises by the school management, much to the disapproval of several students who started protesting the decision. The ‘Shoki’ singer was invited by Redeemer’s University Student’s Association for the 2014 Fresher’s event tagged ‘The Debut Night.’ But just as
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The umbrella body of the public primary and secondary school teachers in Osun State has been factionalised into two camps following the decision by the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, to embark on strike to press home its demands, including improved condition of service. The division, Vanguard gathered was as a result of the decision
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The Borno State Government said it had put in place adequate security measures ahead of the reopening of schools. The administration has enlisted the services of local vigilantes to provide safety in the public schools, which were due to open on Monday. Dr Mohammed Dongel, Chairman of the 19-man committee on the resuscitation of primary
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They are delicious and help make us more beautiful by helping both the inside of our body, like our hearts, as well as the outside of our body, like our hair. While eggs have got a bad reputation for a long time due to cholesterol fears, evidence in the British Medical Journal showed that when
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Changing the way we walk can change our mood and boost our happiness, a study found. It’s long been known that our mood affects our posture: sad people slump their shoulders while happy people bounce along the street. Now researchers have shown it works the other way too – making people imitate a happy or
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If you are someone who types a furious text message, only to reconsider and edit it before hitting ‘send,’ you may be in trouble. The Beam Messenger app shows everything another person is typing in a text message as they type it. This means that if your friend has the app, they could see the
We often find ourselves crying — the universal sign for unhappiness — when we feel overwhelmed with intense positive emotions. According to a new study, we may display this sort of negative reaction to a joyful experience as a way of keeping ourselves from getting too overwhelmed with good feelings. The study, conducted at Yale
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