The holy month of Ramadan is mid-way. This is the month in which Allah, the Almighty, opens His doors of mercy, forgiveness and blessings upon Muslims. Every year, this month is eagerly awaited by Muslims across the world. Even before the month of Ramadan starts, we see women stocking their kitchen with groceries, meats and dry fruits. Women… Read More »
In many traditional societies, women’s age at marriage acts simultaneously as a gateway to new family roles and the likelihood of producing offspring. However, inadequate attention has previously been given to the broader health and social implications of variability in women’s marriage age for public health. Biomedical scientists have primarily been concerned with whether the onset of reproduction… Read More »
Relationships can be wonderful buffers against stress, but relationship conflicts can also cause considerable emotional pain and stress. Knowing how to apologize—and when—can repair damage in a relationship, but if you don’t know how to apologize sincerely, you can actually make things worse. A sincere and effective apology is one that communicates genuine empathy, remorse, and regret as well as… Read More »
An 83-year-old Vietnamese woman Nguyen Thi Dinh from Ben Tre Province reportedly stopped cutting her hair when she was 19 and the hair now measures 6 meters in length. The python-shaped hair came as a result of Nguyen’s bad hair day at a salon. She alleges that she started experiecing severe headaches after she cut her hair for the… Read More »
The louse (plural: lice) is a parasite that attaches itself to human hair and feeds on human blood. The most prevalent kind of lice is head lice. An infestation with head lice is medically known as Pedicurists capitis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that up to 12 million lice infestations occur every year in the United States. Female… Read More »
As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic, Queen Elizabeth is set to make Windsor Castle her main home and not return to Buckingham Palace for “the foreseeable future”. According to a report in The Sunday Times, the Queen usually returns to Buckingham Palace in London by October after her summer break in Scotland. This year, however, she would be moving back to… Read More »
You hang up a wet towel and, when you come back, it’s dry. You set out a bowl of water for your dog and when you look again, the water level in the bowl has dropped even though Woofy has been nowhere near the bowl. Where did the missing water go? It evaporated. That means some of the… Read More »
Keeping your back happy Back pain can interrupt your day or interfere with your plans. In fact, there’s an 84 percent chance that you will develop low back pain in your lifetime. But back pain isn’t always something you can ignore or wait for it to resolve on its own. Thankfully, there are several ways to treat back… Read More »
After recording the particulars of Oranian burials in a complete chapter, in fact in a complete section, Rieux now takes up the situation of those who were living during the period of lethargy. The first half of Chapter 19 describes more fully the drugged state of general despondency, and brings us up to date on the principal characters.… Read More »
Whenever we’re about to lose faith in humanity (which is something that’s depressingly easy to accomplish – all you need to do is turn on the television), someone comes along to give us hope and prove that humans are indeed capable of greatness. From the man who spent decades struggling against apartheid and then forgave his persecutors, to… Read More »