The Latin name for the day is Dies Veneris, which means Day of Venus in accordance with the “planet” assigned to the day by the ancients. This convention was adopted in Old English, and the day came to be known […]

Bacteria are the most numerous life forms on the planet. Bacteria come in various shapes and sizes, and thrive in some of the most inhospitable environments. They live in your body, on your skin, and on objects […]

Do the words of this girl echo your own feelings about social media too. When asked by mental health psychologists, she said:

I use social media but that just makes me more depressed
Overall, 35,244 of the […]

You must have studied in school how to write letters, whether formal or informal. But in this age, most letters are not written with ink on paper, but electronically. It is not unusual nowadays to submit your […]

It is often said that the human body is a miracle of nature. Fortunately, it is also a miracle of weirdness. There are any number of things you probably didn’t know about yourself and how unique, incredible […]

Does it surprise you to read that pigs and humans share certain physiological and anatomical similarities when it comes to certain organs such as skin, the brain and also the heart? While pigs are most certainly […]

Last year, as the days of December ticked away, did you break out a new fresh-paged diary as you said to yourself: Which resolution should I choose? And how can I make it finally stick? You eventually went on to […]

Do pretty girls really get better grades in school? In real life, the classroom is the last place where you would expect appearance to matter. A fashion runway, maybe, but you would like to think that your […]

As school resumes in another few days – if you haven’t resumed already -, you most definitely would like to know what specific things can help improve your brain power to take on the rigour of academic work for […]

We started the series by considering the first 98 days of your stay in the womb – how you passed your first test, began to show a preference for either or both your hands, and how your fingerprints were formed as […]

Imagine going to bed tonight as your calendar reads November 2, 2016; only to wake up the next morning and be told the new day is November 14, 2016! You invariably have lost 11 days!! Yet this was exactly what […]

If you saw Cycle 21 of the reality series America’s Next Top Model, then you would know Winnie Harlow (aka Chantelle Brown-Young) who was one of the contestants, and suffers from Vitiligo. Michael Jackson was also […]

You are well aware that the brightness of today will in about 12 hours give way to the darkness of the night. You are also aware that there is a reversal of these conditions everyday – that while a part of the […]

Prepositions are one of the traditional parts of speech. Prepositions are members of a closed word class – which means that few new prepositions ever enter the language. In fact, there are only about 100 of them […]

It’s not strange for a girl to ask herself, or her girlfriends how to know if a guy likes them. While there are no set rules about how to go about knowing this, you may consider these scientific ways that give you […]

On this day in 1838, Samuel Morse’s telegraph system is demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. The telegraph, a device which used electric impulses to transmit e […]

If you entered for the 2016 TSL essay and debate competition, you would remember that the essay title was “Are Sustainable Cities Possible?” And getting tap water from recycled waste water is just an example of […]