The Brain: The Mystery of Consciousness
2024-08-25
The young women had survived the car crash, after a fashion. In the five months since parts of her brain had been crushed, she could open her eyes but didn’t respond to sights, sounds or jabs. In the jargon of neurology, she was judged to be in a persistent vegetative state. In crueler everyday language, she was a vegetable.
So picture the astonishment of British and Belgian scientists as they scanned her brain using a kind of MRI that detects blood flow to active parts of the brain.
On Friday, the Carolina Panthers revealed the payoff of a Twitter joke their social media team had spent three days setting up, and established themselves as the current clubhouse leaders in the NFL when it comes to memes. Any followers of the Panthers might have noticed a few tweets from the team over the past few days that seemed slightly off. Jonathan Stewart has never really gone by the nickname "
According to the company, Rolls sold 4.5 million shares at a price of £16.25. He had originally only planned to sell 2.5 million shares, but sold more "due to significant institutional demand." Rolls retains a stake of 11.2% in the company. Fever Tree launched in 2005 with the aim of providing "high quality mixers" to cater for the growing demand of premium spirits — gin in particular. ADVERTISEMENT
On Oct. 4, 2023, some 1,500 Israeli and Palestinian women descended on Jerusalem and the shores of the Dead Sea. Wielding blue and yellow flags representing two different grassroots peace organizations, they gathered to demand an end to the “cycle of bloodshed” consuming their communities and for their respective leaders to return to the negotiating table to secure a nonviolent resolution to their decades-long conflict. “This is a historic partnership of two women’s movements,” said Yael Admi, a co-founder and leader of the Israeli movement Women Wage Peace.
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The narco drama of Gloria Okon's death
2024-08-25
It was the story of the drug mule known as Gloria Okon. On April 22, 1985, Gloria Okon was arrested at the Aminu Kano International Airport with substances suspected to be heroin and narcotics. She was on her way to England when she was caught with 56.70 grammes of the substances. Okon was also arrested with 301 dollars, 60 pounds sterling, N20,000 and 19,000 Italian lira on her. According to Decree 20 of the General Buhari regime, drug trafficking attracted a death penalty.
Today the name James Dobson is familiar to many Americans of all stripes because of his influence over the Christian Right and his role in building the evangelical political infrastructure that helped elect Donald Trump to the Presidency and engineer the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But what is not as well known are the roots of his stardom in the 1970s: as an evangelical psychologist primarily focused on doling out parenting advice, including advocating spanking and other forms of discipline.
Keep scrolling to see how much older your favorite fictional parents are than their "kids." In the 2019 film "Glass," Charlayne Woodard plays the mother of Samuel L. Jacksons character, Elijah (aka Mr. Glass). The only problem is that, at 65, shes five years younger than 70-year-old Jackson. ADVERTISEMENT
Universal Pictures Jackson looks great for his age, but that still doesn't make casting a woman a whole five years younger than him make any more sense.
A statement by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, said the new plane would save Nigeria huge maintenance and fuel costs, running into millions of dollars a year. He also said the new plane was bought below the market price. “The recommendation to replace the B737-700 (BBJ) followed an investigative hearing by Nigeria’s parliament that questioned the plane’s safety record and cost efficiency, especially after it malfunctioned during a trip to Saudi Arabia.