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How the Shape of Your Ears Affects What You Hear http://flip.it/yXJZe3

A Mysterious Anomaly Under Africa Is Radically Weakening Earth's Magnetic Field http://flip.it/BsP245

http://www.unn.edu.ng/african-humanities-research-and-development-circle/ Rwanda's capital, Kigali has been declared by United Nations as the Most beautiful city in Africa and the third greenest city in the world.

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The story behind the viral photo of a teacher in Ghana showing students Windows on a blackboard Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu February 28, 2018 Viral sensation and tech hero. There has been global applause for a teacher in Ghana who posted photos of himself drawing on a blackboard with multi-colored chalk, the features of a Microsoft Word processing window. The students in his class can also be seen drawing it into their notebooks. Social media exploded in admiration and wonder at his effort to explain how computers work—without computers. Richard Appiah Akoto, 33, is the information and communication technology (ICT) teacher at Betenase M/A Junior High School in the town of Sekyedomase, about two and half hours drive north of Ghana’s second city, Kumasi. The school has no computers even though since 2011, 14 and 15-year-olds are expected to write and pass a national exam (without which students cannot progress to high school) with ICT being one of the subjects. “This is no...

Innovative Educators  I made my classroom look like the real world…and test scores soared. Anthony Johnson is an elementary school teacher in North Carolina and a TED-Ed Innovative Educator. Below, he describes his innovative classroom structure: “Johnsonville.” Think about the jobs in today’s economy — the ones we’re supposed to prepare students for after graduation. Are employees evaluated using bubble-in tests to prove they know the ins and outs of their job? Do they learn and use new skills one at a time in a vacuum? The questions sound a bit silly until you realize too often that’s what students take away from their education. Why is the culture to drill facts into students’ heads just to pass a test? Just like in the real world, my students show what they can do through projects, teamwork, and research. Is it working? Well, according to state science exams, my students consistently score higher than other science classes in my district. I’ve never been a big believer ...

 CHINA SPENT $279B ON RESEARCH IN 2017 – MINISTER China spent $279b on research in 2017  unn.edu.ng China’s total spending on research and development is estimated to have hit 1.76 trillion yuan (279 billion dollars) in 2017, a year-on-year increase of 14 per cent, China’s Minister of Science said on Tuesday.“China needs to enter the ranks of innovative countries and become a big technological innovation power by 2050.“Basic research and frontier exploration is the big lesson that must be done now,” Minister Wan Gang told a news conference.China has been trying to ease its dependence on low-end heavy industries and to develop less-polluting ways to promote economic growth and move up the global value chain.The 2017 spending amounts to around 2.1 per cent of total Gross Domestic Product.This compares with around 2.8 per cent in the United States, 2.9 per cent in Germany and 3.3 per cent in Japan, World Bank data for 2015 shows.China’s annual research and spending has risen...