There is nothing better than a bit of myth-busting, so here we are again, presenting you with a new list of terribly common misconceptions and myths – this time about science. The Myth: Evolution causes something to go from “lower” to “higher” While it is a fact that natural selection weeds out unhealthy genes from
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Sometimes the process of learning something in order to be able to do it seems daunting. You know you want to get from point A to point B so that you can do C, but you really just want to be able to do C without a long wait. While patience is a virtue, sometimes
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A schoolgirl hanged herself because she could not cope with the ‘21st-century pressures’ caused by social media and mobile phones, her father said yesterday. The family of 15-year-old Olivia Glennie had no idea anything was wrong before her death. The father Alex said the pressures of 24-hour communication by text, Facebook and the internet mean
Welcome to this new article. In my last article I shared about the power of visualisation as a key that guarantees your success in life. I do hope you are putting the laws to work. It is the stuff of which great men and women are made up of. Now, let us look at another
Los Angeles (USA) students think some schools deserve more attention and resources. They staged a protest and took it to the streets. And they brought their desks with them. Some 375 empty desks blocked a downtown street. It stopped traffic for several hours outside the Los Angeles Unified School District’s offices. Organizers say the number
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Akintunde Ahmad, a 17-year old Nigerian student at Oakland Tech in Oakland, who got a 5.0 GPA and 2,100 on the SAT, has received numerous offer to study in some of America’s top colleges like Yale, Columbia and Brown. While some people are still in shock over his accomplishments, the star student athlete notes in
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Internet users have been warned to change all their computer and phone passwords following what could be a ‘catastrophic’ security breach. Major technology firms have urged the public to immediately update their online security. The alert is the result of the discovery of an internet bug called ‘Heartbleed’, which is able to bypass computer security
Anambra State has emerged the overall best in the 2013 West African Senior School Certificate Examination. The official WAEC result, made available to The PUNCH, on Thursday, show that Ghana came first among West African countries while Anambra State came first among states in Nigeria followed by Abia, Rivers and Lagos states. The breakdown of
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Facebook will now require all users of its mobile application to install another app for chatting with their friends. It is officially confirmed that Facebook will disable messaging in its main apps for iPhone and Android and demand users to download another app – Facebook Messenger. This was announced by Facebook representatives to Huffingtonpost yesterday.
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Researchers have warned that urinating in swimming pools could lead to health problems. The scientists that carried out the research said they found out that compounds in urine mixed with chlorine can cause chemicals that have been linked to respiratory effects in swimmers to form. They warned swimmers to stop the common practice after
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