BIOGRAPHIES OF YOUTH

FamilyBy Rosaline Horlar April 9, 2020 Leave a comment

Knightly ideals and honor—Thirty adolescents from Shakespeare—Goethe—C.D. Warner—Aldrich—The fugitive nature of adolescent experience—Extravagance of autobiographies—Stories that attach to great names—Some typical crazes—Illustrations from George Eliot, Edison, Chatterton, Hawthorne, Whittier, Spencer, Huxley, Lyell, Byron, Heine, Napoleon, Darwin, Martineau, Agassiz, Madame Roland, Louisa Alcott, F.H. Burnett, Helen Keller, Marie Bashkirtseff, Mary MacLane, Ada Negri, De Quincey, Stuart…

With Humans In Hiding, Animals Take Back The World

TechnologyBy Rosaline Horlar April 9, 2020 Leave a comment

Gulf states have tightened lockdown measures in large cities, and with Dubai’s shops closed and almost no people on the streets, peacocks that normally live in nearby gardens ventured out to explore other areas of the Middle Eastern city. A flock of geese searched for food inside a temple in Nagaon, in India’s state of…

Pets found positive for Covid-19 must be quarantied

LifestyleBy adepoju April 9, 2020 Leave a comment

KUALA LUMPUR: Pets owned by private individuals which have been confirmed positive for Covid-19 must be isolated and quarantined for 14 days for monitoring purposes. Senior lecturer (veterinary immunology) and researcher at the Faculty of Veterinary Science in Universiti Putra Malaysia, Dr Farina Mustaffa Kamal, said if these pets displayed any health issues during this…

UK PM listened to his scientists about Covid-19, but they were slow to sound the alarm

LifestyleBy adepoju April 9, 2020 Leave a comment

LONDON: It was early spring when British scientists laid out the bald truth to their government. It was “highly likely,“ they said, that there was now “sustained transmission” of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. If unconstrained and if the virus behaved as in China, up to four-fifths of Britons could be infected and one in…

WHO Timeline – COVID-19

Health ArticlesBy Rosaline Horlar April 9, 2020 Leave a comment

31 Dec 2019 China reported a cluster of cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei Province. A novel coronavirus was eventually identified. 1 January 2020 WHO had set up the IMST (Incident Management Support Team) across the three levels of the organization: headquarters, regional headquarters and country level, putting the organization on an emergency footing for dealing with…

MANUAL TRAINING AND SLOYD

EducationBy Abdul-Qadir April 8, 2020 Leave a comment

History of the movement—Its philosophy—The value of hand training in the development of the brain and its significance in the making of man—A grammar of our many industries hard—The best we do can reach but few—Very great defects in our manual training methods which do not base on science and make nothing salable—The Leipzig system—Sloyd…

Armed Conflicts, State Repression Causing Human Rights Abuses In Africa, Says Amnesty International

TechnologyBy abeldecoteau80 April 8, 2020 Leave a comment

Amnesty International has said that armed conflicts and state repression were causes of human rights abuses in Africa. The organisation in its annual review of human rights in the region on Tuesday said rights defenders in Africa were persecuted and harassed for standing up and speaking out against governments. According to the report, there…

Providence review: Chilling sci-fi where an AI becomes god by accident

TechnologyBy abeldecoteau80 April 8, 2020 Leave a comment

Is our love affair with AI really about building a new kind of deity to meet human needs no amount of rationality can fill? Max Barry’s disturbing novel Providence lays out the case, says Sally Adee Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532760-700-providence-review-chilling-sci-fi-where-an-ai-becomes-god-by-accident/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0

Virtual Press Conference on COVID-19- 06 April 2020

Health ArticlesBy Abdul-Qadir April 8, 2020 Leave a comment

  Originally broadcast live on 06 April 2020, the daily press briefing on coronavirus COVID-19, direct from WHO Headquarters, Geneva Switzerland with Dr Tedros WHO Director-General, Dr Micheal Ryan, Executive Director of the Health Emergencies Programme, and Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, Technical lead, WHO Health Emergencies Programme with special guests Lady Gaga and Hugh Evans,…

Making available free paediatric medicine can accelerate elimination of congenital Chagas disease

Health ArticlesBy Abdul-Qadir April 8, 2020 Leave a comment

The donation of an essential antiparasitic medicine can potentially accelerate the elimination of Chagas disease infection in children. A pediatric presentation of benznidazole with accurate dosage and will soon be made available freely to address a long-standing gap in the treatment of congenital infections of Chagas disease. The donation, by the Mundo Sano Foundation1 and…

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