Many African countries have banned skin bleaching products but the laws are not enforced as many skin whitening creams and soaps flood the markets in countries such as Ghana, Togo, South Africa, Mali and Cote d’Ivoire.
Yes, the Octopus Is Smart as Heck. But Why?
To demonstrate how smart an octopus can be, Piero Amodio points to a YouTube video. It shows an octopus pulling two halves of a coconut shell together to hide inside. Later the animal stacks the shells together like nesting bowls and carts them away.“It suggests the octopus is carrying these tools around because it has some understanding they may be useful in the future,” said Mr Amodio, a graduate student studying animal intelligence at the University of Cambridge in Britain.
What Makes Knickers the Steer (Not Cow) So Big? Cattle’s Mysterious Genes.
Once upon a time, everyone hoped that the internet, instead of becoming a bottomless pit of iniquity, would be filled with good and interesting information about large cattle. And lo, it is. But the viral photos of Knickers, the very large Australian steer, perhaps the largest steer around, have raised more questions than a leak from the Mueller investigation.
NAME AND SHAME Mum’s fury after Southwest Airlines worker name-shamed her five-year-old daughter for being called Abcde.
A MUM has claimed her daughter was mocked to her face and then on social media by airline staff because her name is Abcde. Traci Redford alleges a Southwest Airlines gate agent at John Wayne International Airport in Orange County, Florida laughed after reading her five-year-old daughter’s boarding pass.he says the agent even posted a photo of the boarding pass on Facebook for others to join in the mockery.
IT’S A GAS Woman farts in shop then threatens to gut customer with knife when he complains!
A WOMAN who broke wind in a corner shop pulled a knife and threatened to “gut” a man who complained. Shanetta Yvette Wilson, 37, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill. Cops collared her on Sunday and booked her at a detention facility in Pompano Beach, just north of Fort Lauderdale.
An African,Nigerian Philip Emeagwali is the Creator of the Internet – Google Confirms!
It’s almost very difficult to affirm or say who truly invented the Internet. There were many mathematicians and scientists who contributed to its development; computers were sending signals to each other as early as the 1950s. But the Web owes much of its existence to Philip Emeagwali.
'LIKE ROMEO AND JULIET' ‘Perfect’ young couple die hugging each other in girl’s childhood bed after double drug overdose!
A SURF-LOVING young couple who planned to travel the world together died hugging each other in bed after a double drug overdose. Michelle Avila, 23, was found dead in her childhood bed a month before her birthday alongside boyfriend Christian Kent, 20, "like Romeo and Juliet".The pair, from Newport Beach in Orange County, California, had been at a party at a friend's house the night before their death.
Will transparent bags change anything about gun violence in U.S. schools?
Due to the tragic shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Florida which left 17 students dead, students will now be required to use clear backpacks on campus grounds. This new rule will take effect as students return from spring break next week.“Clear backpacks are the only backpacks that will be permitted on campus,” said Broward County School Superintendent Robert Runcie in a letter addressed to parents on March 21.
The anti-gun violence essay by Eighth-grader Sandra Parks.
Eighth-grader Sandra Parks’ essay about senseless gun violence in her home city of Milwaukee and across the United States and the effects it has on children earned her the third position in her school district’s Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest. Two years down the line, she unfortunately and tragically fell victim to the same thing she was campaigning against; gun violence. Parks’ was hit by a stray bullet while watching TV in her home after several shots were fired at a nearby house.
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