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(By Maggie, 18) My story may be a little different than the others, but it’s my story and it’s supposed to be different. I was never taught about sex. It was never brought up to me but once, by my grandmother, of all people, while my mother sat idly by in the next room. She […]
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Factors, Prime factors (revision) 40 ÷ 8 = 5 and 40 ÷ 5 = 8 8 and 5 divide into 40 without remainder. 8 and 5 are factors of 40. A prime number has only two factors, itself and 1, but 1 is not a prime number. 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, … are prime
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This Brazilian teen is all thumbs — really quick thumbs. Watch Marcel Fernandes Filho break his own Guinness World Record for the fastest time to type a text message on a mobile device. Guinness said that Filho, who used a Fleksy keyboard app on an iPhone 6 Plus, typed the following in 17 seconds without
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We may have more frenemies – people we both love and hate – than we realise, and they may be harming our health, researchers have warned. Experts say on average about half of our social network consists of people we have, as they put it, an ‘ambivalent relationship’ with. They say the stress of these
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Students of the University of Jos, UNIJOS, yesterday, protested the purported systematic increase of school fees by management of the school, saying they were already paying exorbitant fees for poor services, Vanguard reports. President of the Students’ Union Government, SUG, Abel Nok Du, said the students were not happy with the increase of their levies,
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These words are pronounced the same, and they are both adjectives. Discrete means separate, distinct, individual: The two companies have a partnership, but they are discrete entities. We offer three discrete service plans: internet only, internet + cell phone, and internet + cell phone + TV. Discreet describes something that is modest and does not
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“Good dog” just doesn’t cut it with pooches. Surprising new research shows that dogs prefer petting over verbal praise. “I spend half my day talking to my dog,” study co-author Dr. Clive Wynne, professor and director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University, told the Huffington reporter. “She always looks like it’s valuable
A Good Word, Food or Petting? Study Reveals What Your Dog Really Wants Read More »
Failure is a positive act of creativity. Scientists, artists, engineers, and even entrepreneurs know this as adults. But in schools, the notion of failure is complicated. Any practice – athletic, artistic, even social – involves repeatedly failing till one gets the experience or activity right. We need to “keep the challenge constant so players are
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People who have lucid dreams have superior problem-solving skills, scientists claim. Researchers say that people who can recognise that they are dreaming while being sound asleep, can solve problems in the waking world better than those who remain unaware of the dream until they wake up. This is because they have an extra level of
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It really may be a case of in one ear and out the other. Research shows we have a poor memory for sound. As a result, we find it easier to remember things we see or touch than those we hear. The researchers recommend that we write down things we want to remember – and
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