A group of scientists tracking height growth of citizens of various nations across a 100 year period has come out with some fascinating findings about global height patterns.
The researchers, from the Imperial College in London, tracked patterns between 1914 and 2014 to release their findings, which showed the Netherlands have the tallest men in the world whilst Latvia has the tallest women.
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Made In Africa: Tanzania Building Its Own Helicopter Which Would Soon Take To Flight
Tanzania are building a locally made chopper which would soon take to its skies.
The chopper, a two seater aircraft, is being developed by the Mechanical and Engineering Department of the Arusha Technical College- the prototype is already nearing completion, but is set to be fully operational in 2018.
Microsoft Announces Agreement To Capture LinkedIn For $26.2bn
Software giants Microsoft has announced an agreement with professional networking site LinkedIn, to acquire its entire shares in a deal worth $26.2bn.
Microsoft is buying the network at $196 per share, including all of its net cash. The deal is set to be signed sometime before the end of this year.
Ten Year Old Hacker Given $10,000 Reward For Finding A Security Bug In Instagram
A ten year old Finnish hacker called Jani has received a $10,000 reward from Facebook, the parent company of Instagram, for discovering a security bug on the photo sharing site and informing them of it.
Jani found a way to delete comments of other users due to the bug he found.
Study Says Farts Can Help In Curing Some Diseases
It is perhaps the biggest taboo when in the company of others, certainly nigh unforgivable on an aircraft- but it turns out farting might not be as bad as we make it out to be.
A study carried out by researchers at Exeter University in England discovered that hydrogen sulphide, which is produced in the human body during break-up of food in the gut- actually has some benefits on the cellular level that might help in battling diseases.
Research Finds People Holding Supernatural Beliefs Suppress Areas Of The Brain Associated With Critical Thinking
I’m guessing this is one of those research findings Otabil would tell his followers to dismiss out of hand.
The brain is a complex network that is constantly in use, but obviously not everyone uses theirs in the same way.
VIDEO: The Evidence For Evolution Laid Out In Four Vestigial Body Parts
It’s kind of a party line in Ghana, and across most of the fundamentalist Christian world, to deny the validity of the scientific theory of evolution. For some reason, we have convinced ourselves that if evolution is true, the bible must be wrong, which actually is not the case.
It’s a position that relies on distortions and misinterpretations of the overwhelming scientific evidence for the theory, and some of it comes down to a fundamental misunderstanding of the word theory as used in science. For comparison, gravity is a theory.
VIDEO: Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson Explain Why We Have Leap Years
Today is the 29th of February, the rarest date in the Universe. It occurs just once every four years.
A lot of people do not know why we need to give February an extra date every four years. And for those who know, some do not even understand why.
Facebook Rolls Out New Range Of Emotions Tagged ‘Reactions’ To Complement The Like Button
The problem with the like button has always been how you utilise it to express support, especially on a sad post. It seems kind of psychopathic to ‘like’ someone’s post announcing the death of their mom.
So Facebook have been working on a new range of emotional reactions to posts for their users, and it is finally being piloted around the world.
VIDEO: Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson Responds To Flat Earth Rapper B.o.B With Spoken Word Rebuttal
Whoever said scientists cannot beef? B.o.B vs Neil Tyson is thousand times more fun than Kanye running off his mouth at a woman he used to date.
B.o.B has hogged some attention recently with his ridiculous claim that the Earth is flat, and that we have all been deceived by the most massive conspiracy in the history of man.
Planet 9- Researchers May Have Discovered A New Planet In Our Solar System!
To those Ghanaian kids wondering, yes, we have eight planets. Don’t worry, they told me it was nine too.
Pluto, everyone’s favourite little brother, is a dwarf planet. But no worries, two researchers have come forward with a theory of another ninth planet, so your cognitive dissonance does not have to be too strong.
WhatsApp is Down: Users Unable to Send or Receive Messages
The free messaging app-WhatsApp has broke down—leaving several users hanging, unable to send or receive messages.
With the New Year at the corner for most countries where WhatsApp is popularly, this is a great inconvenience as many people rely on the messaging system to reach out to their loved ones.
The real cause of the outage is unknown— the mobile messaging application reportedly began experiencing issues with its service in parts of Europe after it went down shortly after 4.30pm.
Court Suspends WhatsApp Messaging in Brazil…
A court in Sao Paulo state has ordered for the suspension of the popular messaging app-WhatsApp in Brazil—for failure of the bosses of WhatsApp to comply with a court order.
WhatsApp which is currently owned by Facebook has refused to cooperate in a criminal proceeding as it has ignored a court order to release certain needed data.
Facebook’s CEO and Founder-Mark Zuckerberg took to his facebook page to say:
“Tonight, a Brazilian judge blocked WhatsApp for more than 100 million people who rely on it in her country.
We are working hard to get this block reversed. Until then, Facebook Messenger is still active and you can use it to communicate instead.
This is a sad day for Brazil. Until today, Brazil has been an ally in creating an open internet. Brazilians have always been among the most passionate in sharing their voice online.
Lamar Odom Is The Most Searched Google Term Of 2015
As the end of the year approaches, several end of year list are released, looking at the year in review. For the ordinary man, it’s a great way to reminisce over what the year was about.
Google is the world’s biggest and most used search engine, and its use has become almost a natural part of life. In fact the term Google has become a verb to describe the action of searching, and there can be no greater compliment to be paid to the tech firm.
Website Of KNUST, Ghana Post- Taken Over By Moroccan Hackers
The website of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), knust.edu.gh– has been hacked by a Moroccan hacking squad.
The group is describing themselves as the Moroccan Mujahideen team. The site takedown occurred around 1900 GMT Tuesday, and despite numerous reports the site has not been restored, it remains down as at the time of this report.
This Website Would Break Up With Your Spouse For You If You Are Too Cowardly To Do It Yourself
As progress hits the human race and technology takes over more and more, everything is moving online- either you are in virtual reality, or things are becoming impersonal.
Very soon, we would probably have a kind of machine to wipe our a** after doing the business.
Google Self Drive Car Pulled Over By Police For Moving Too Slowly
Whilst Google works non-stop to get us to the point of self driven cars, the stories we keep hearing about this technology always seems to be on the lighter side.
There once was a story of the google car getting into an altercation with another test self drive car. And now, it has been pulled over for being too slow.
Mobile Internet in Ghana | Surfline in A LEAD But…
I am on a train from London to Luton and I am able to work, using my iPhone’s EE’s 4G as a hotspot. While in Ghana, I wrote almost all my articles in traffic: hooked on Surfline’s 4G mobile device while my friend did the driving. I found it interesting and refreshing that such a … Read more
Twitter Replaces The Star Button For Favourites With A Heart Button For Like
Twitter has finally introduced a like button on their platform, however it came at the expense of the button for favouriting a tweet- thus making it not as popular as they probably expected.
Favouriting a tweet has always been on the platform since the beginning, and as many people have noted, was a great way to bookmark a tweet for reading at a later date.
Liquid Salty Water Discovered On The Surface Of Mars: Sparking Hope For Discovery Of Life One Day
NASA had earlier revealed that they had a huge announcement to make on Monday, and folks who tuned in had an interesting revelation to digest.
Images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has shown that liquid, salty water can be found on the surface of the planet. It has been known for a while that Mars had some water at its poles; in its atmosphere, and below its surface.
Facebook Developing A Dislike Button
You ever see a post from the guy who irritates you so much that you wished there was a little dislike button right next to the like button for you to dislike him into oblivion.
Well you still cannot do that.
New Headphones Known As ‘The BatBand’ Designed To Beam Music Straight Into Your Skull
Well since the damage being caused to our ears by loud music is quite momentous, it’s about time somebody came up with some new technology.
A new kind of headphone, designed by the delightfully named Studio Banana Things, beams its contents straight into your skull. These save you from ear damage, whilst also keeping the ears available to pick up sounds from your surroundings.
Study Shows Men Who Go Bald In Their Youth Have A Lower Sperm Count
Well, there’s a correlation nobody saw coming.
A new study, published in the journal Dermatologica Sinica, makes the claim that men who lose their hair circa age 30, generally have a lower sperm count. The study sought to look into a very popular urban legend, that bald men are very virile.
A New Species Of Human Has Been Discovered In South Africa
Some traverse the world not contributing anything and living by authority, others try to find out as much as they can to debunk said authorities.
Researchers working in South Africa have discovered within the cave system known as Rising Star, located within South Africa’s famous Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, fossils of what is believed to be a now extinct species of human who lived between two to three million years ago; homo naledi.
Study Finds That Being Gay Cannot Be Described As ‘Un-African’
A new study by South African scientists has found that the popular refrain that homos*xuality is ‘un-african’ is wrong, as there’s no evidence to support the fact and it is present in almost every human society.
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) commissioned the study, and came out with the findings. The purpose was to devise a way of convincing African regimes to be more lenient towards LGBTQ people, and science is a pretty good way of arriving at the right answers.
Movie Based On The Life Of The Late Famous Astrophysicist Carl Sagan In Development By Warner Bros.
We know too little science in this country. At this point there’s no excuse, when we’re living in the greatest age of information in the history of man.
Carl Sagan wrote and starred in the first docu-series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. The series, which tackles the history of the cosmos and man in a way that appealed to even the layman, was successful and inspired the latest reboot by one of Sagan’s protégés, Neil Degraase Tyson.
VIDEO: Kenyan Company Recycles Old Newspapers Into Pencils
The biggest problem with our line of thinking is that we are always waiting for someone to come and save us, we’ll never do anything to attempt to arrest our terrible conditions.
It is why we still continue to export most of our biggest resources in their raw forms at cheap prices, and then spend a fortune to buy the refined end product. We have too little focus on science, technology, and industry on this continent.