Category: Science & Technology

Are Africans the Only Group With 100 Percent Human Genes?

• May 10, 2010 • Comments (0)
Are Africans the Only Group With 100 Percent Human Genes?

Whether you’re fascinated by science or not, or you are a believer of evolution or not, the article that appeared in the New York Times on May 6, 2010 with the headlines “Signs of Neanderthals Mating with Humans” may be interesting to you. A team of scientists, led by Svante Paabo of the Max Planck [...]

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Nigerian news media still in better shape than their western counterparts

• November 3, 2009 • Comments (1)
Nigerian News Media

While the western media is still enmeshed in the maze of uncertainty as it tries to disentangle itself from the chains of the new digital phenomena, as it struggles to find the best way to remain in business and still be profitable, the third world countries still boast of a sizeable number of dedicated audiences. [...]

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Sides of Social Networking

• October 10, 2009 • Comments (0)
The different sides of social networking

Whenever I start to think about how much the new social networking sites have added to my unending love for the internet; knowing that almost everyone I know is now on facebook and twitter; waking up in the morning, greeted with a tweet fromĀ a former 3rd grade classmate, describing how he almost spilled his coffee [...]

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A Different Look at the Impact of Social Networking

• October 5, 2009 • Comments (1)
The new age in social networking

While many people are “doing a heck of a job” (as former president George W. Bush put it) in making a great deal of friends with the emergence of the new social networking sites, others, and I included, have been left to wonder how people could keep up with hundreds and even thousands of friends [...]

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