Day: November 23, 2021

Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – NASA is poised to send its first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids to glean new insights into the solar system’s formation 4.5 billion years ago, the space agency said Tuesday. The probe, called Lucy after an ancient fossil that provided insights into the evolution of human species, will […]

Published by Daily Guide Network An exhibition of works by German artist Wolfgang Tillmans will on Friday, October 8, open at the Museum of Science and Technology in Accra. Indeed, his work occupies a prominent position in the contemporary art world. Ever since his first exhibitions and publications in the early 1990s, Tillmans’s artistic approaches […]

Published by Nigerian Tribune According to the study, “Nigeria has one of the slowest broadband connection speeds globally (13.45 Mbps), ranking 105th, and slightly faster mobile internet (17.91 Mbps), ranking 96th. However, the country’s broadband speed growth is one of the fastest on the planet, ranking 16th.” Covering 90 per cent of the global population, […]

Published by AFP Paris (AFP) – From a summer of fire and record floods, to freak frosts and locusts invasions, experts say man-made climate change is wreaking havoc on the world’s weather. Here are some of the most devastating climate-fuelled disasters from the past two years: Mediterranean on fire – Greece’s worst heatwave in decades fuelled […]

Published by ValueWalk Whitney Tilson’s email to investors discusing why he is not persuaded by Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB)’s defense; responses to his letter to Sheryl Sandberg; other reader feedback and his comments. Q3 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Why I’m Not Persuaded By Facebook’s Defense1) In yesterday’s e-mail, I shared Facebook’s (FB) defense […]

Published by Sunday Standard The former Beatle was an early proponent of the artist-activist phenomenon. Lennon the artist was a product of his time, and – alongside contemporary and co-contender for the “Spokesman of a Generation” title Bob Dylan – did more than any artist of the time to define the time. Lennon had become […]