LET’S TALK SEX!

She now stood nude in the lamplight except for her black embroidered cotton stockings which were held up by elastic bands around the thighs. He rolled the stockings down and She stepped out of her stockings. She held her arms across her breasts. He stood and turned her around slowly for inspection, a frown on her face… ”

Sex is a typical part of human experiences. The urge comes naturally and usually controls the emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of the human lives. Sex is one of the top pleasurable experiences known. It is also one of the most emotional experience due to the intimate nature of sex. Our immediate environment is flooded with images that portray sex, from publications in magazines, TV commercials, poster boards to sexually explicit home video, music video, lyrics, online pornography etc.

Today, we will be learning about three aspect of premarital or extra marital sex.

Emotional/Psychological Aspect

Every person you had sex with deposit some kind chemistry into your emotion. That is why you tend to imagine the way it felt after you had sex with a particular person, how pleasurable it felt and how you may love to have sex with such person again or how you would love to practice same style with someone else. In most cases the first thing that may sweep through you mind whenever you catch a glimpse of that person’s appearance is the memories of the sex you had together. The higher the number of times you had sex together the more likely it may result into depression after a breakup.

Take note, just a one night stand with anyone you are committed or not committed to (outside marriage) can ruin you emotionally or psychologically.

Treatment: Get to rid of bad memories. Maybe you grew up in a household that promoted promiscuity, was misguided as a teen/youth and became at risk, lost your virginity to a sick minded family member, or even got raped. Whatever happened, know that it was not your fault, and you should not feel shameful. Accept what happened, forgive the past, and find a supportive and confidential group to help you move past this emotionally. The best part about growing up is maturing emotionally. This means that you can lick all the wounds you incurred as a teen/youth, and heal yourself to become a better, faster, smarter person. Start today by loving yourself.

2.Medical Aspect

Scientists have found that signals from the sex organs can influence the ageing rate of the body so it is much safer to have just a sexual partner. Who else will that sex partner be if not your spouse? How long will you keep trying different girls or boys? Till sex makes you look older than your age or till you get some incurable diseases?

Treatment: Try some Kegel exercise. Few of Kegel exercises can surely give you some really nice toned up pelvic floor muscles. Kegel exercise is very good for both men and women as it helps them solve pelvic floor issues and can also control urinary coarseness. You can very easily do these exercises in the comforts of your home.

Eat healthy diet. Apart from exercises, your body needs nutrition. Have a diet of fruits, vegetables, juices and smoothies, enriched in carbohydrates, minerals, proteins, fat and other lean proteins and etc.

Although you cannot ‘undo losing your virginity’ completely, you can get surgery (as a female) to restore a small part of your body called the hymen. This procedure can be expensive, and also take a fair amount of time.

In addition if you don’t want to go through surgery. Working out is also a really good practice to get into. It serves as a meditation and strengthens your body and mind.

3. Spiritually Aspect

There is a tiny line between sex and the spiritual world. Mortal – Immortal, Mortal – Mortal can connect together during sexual intercourse, thereafter having access into each other’s life sharing power, problem… in common.

The trendy phrase that ladies are more exposed to misfortune in future because of the broken hymens, loosed clitoris may be true but stale. Due to advance in science and technology this may be treated before notice. Although both sex (male or female) may experience some spiritual consequences, it is also important to note that: the man being the image the woman was coined from, and Eve not noticing she was naked until the man-Adam ate the forbidden fruit, has more power to expose his family to dangers spiritually than the woman when he engages in premarital or extra marital sex.

Treatment: Start attending a bible believing church and get baptized in some manner (even if you are not religious). Do whatever it is you need to do in order to feel pure again, and to attain that mind-set that you are a pure human being unaffected by the past. Make a treaty with yourself, and give yourself the gift of inner peace. Many people meditate as well. You may want to give it a try. Whatever you are working to achieve, know that you can do it.

So What Next?

Having plans to engage in premarital or extra marital sex?

Solution: Terminate it

Already engaged in premarital or extra marital sex?

Solution for married: Stop it.

Solutions for single: Stop it and yes you can be a virgin again, regardless. Let’s call it REJUVIRGINATE (becoming a virgin again by abstaining from sex).

You already become a baby mama or papa due to premarital sex?

Solution: It’s not the end of the world and yes you can also REJUVIRGINATE. You need to sit up and encourage yourself. There are so many people out there happily married and living together with non-biological child/children as a family.

”The best way to abstain from premarital or extra marital sex is to control your sexual urge and emotions. Take charge of yourself. Do not let you urge or emotions control you.”
Abimbola AKINS

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SINKING INTO THE DEEP

Deeper and deeper I sink into the mire; I can’t find a foothold. I am in deep water, and the floods overwhelm me. Psalm 69:2 (NLT)

When the world is sinking in ignorance
When men embrace death with passion
When standing there in the middle seeing men perish
When light creeps in darkness
When salt lost its taste and light lost its value
When you turn the other way thinking it’s right
When the other way is a replica of the previous one
When wisdom is lost
When knowledge is strange and stale
When standing there in the middle, seeing men perish
Don’t go right, don’t turn left
Both road leads to death
They are sinking in deep waters on both roads!!
Walking like zombies but wise in confusion
Don’t go right, don’t turn left
Look up, lift your head, raise your face
Let your eyes look straight to the skies, see the clouds
Look up, look up, look up to God for help
He will surely take you out from the middle
In the middle of the sinking world
In the middle with just two ways
In the middle where there is no left
In the middle where there is no right
In the middle of the unknown, confused world
In the middle when you stare at the horizon and see men embrace death with passion
In the middle where you stand and see men sink dead in deep waters
In the middle where you stand amaze in worries and confusion
In the middle of nowhere, where all hope seems lost
In the middle of the Unknown, there are just two ways
Don’t turn left, don’t go right
‘WHEN’ ‘IN THE MIDDLE’ Remember! Look up to JESUS, He will surely come to your Rescue.

It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Life in Simplicity

The human life is basically divided into three:
1. Corporeal life
2. Nano-Corporeal life
3. The Spiritual life

The Corporeal life
This is the life where we can feel our heart beat, blood flowing through our veins and a form of gravity that helps us stand firm on the earth surface while we move from one position to another. This form of life has three major components in humans:
a. Body
b. Spirit
c. Soul
In animals, corporeal life has just a major component which is the Body. Animals has no spirit neither do they possess a soul.
All humans born into the physical world possess these three major component, Body, Soul and Spirit.
Generally, all corporeal life must essentially possess a body but may not necessarily have a soul or spirit.

The Nano Corporeal life
In the Nano corporeal, the activities of the mind can be seen. The Nano corporeal life comprises of majorly the Soul and the Spirit. It is called Nano corporeal because most of the events can only be seen when the body is in total subjection through sleep, when the body is in a state of trance or when the light of the body (eyes) is particularly gifted to see beyond the physical.
The soul acts as the body in the Nano corporeal. The presence of the spirit in the soul gives it access to lunch back into the physical realm.
In humans, Nano corporeal life is usually experienced in the dream world. The soul and the sprit immediately take charge when the body summit in sleep. Whatever happens in this life are typically due to experiences in the physical world but if an event occur that has no link or relation to the activities in physical life, then such event could be predestined that is, it may manifest in the physical life if not hindered.

The Spiritual Life
The Spiritual life is the basis of all life. When humans are born, they are born to live for ever. This life is made up of one major component which is the soul. With time the body expires and disintegrate, the spirit vanishes and the human soul lives forever.

The Unsolved Enigma of the Four Greatest Lost Cities.

After fourteen years of digging, archaeologists excavating in the Holy Land announced that they have found the Biblical city of Ai, a Caananite stronghold that was captured by the Israelites (according to the book of Judges). It’s not the only recently discovered city of cultural significance: only two years ago Douglas Preston published a book documenting his team’s discovery of the so-called Lost City of the Monkey God in the Honduran jungle. News like this makes you wonder what other important lost cities are out there to be discovered.

1. El Dorado

In the early sixteenth century, German conquistadors Nikolaus Federmann and Georg von Speyer set off in search of El Dorado, a mythical golden city, in Venezuela. They didn’t find it, and instead became the first of many sixteenth-century European treasure hunters who hoped and failed to locate the famed valley of gold. In pursuit of gold (and cinnamon), one of these, Francisco de Orellana, “discovered” the Amazon river (which they named after a group of female warriors who attacked their group along the way). The efforts of predominantly Spanish conquistadors to discover (and pillage) the city of gold were related to colonialistic exploitation of the region in general and particularly their observation of the use of gold in pre-Colombian religious rituals and ceremonies. The Musica people used to adorn new kings with gold before depositing a trove of golden objects in the middle of a lake as part of religious ceremonies. The discovery of a cache of gold at Lake Guatavita in 1545 only added fuel to the rumors that more was out there to be found. When Alexander von Humboldt visited the area in 1801 he estimated that as much as $300 million worth of gold was there. El Dorado, on the other hand, appears to be a mythical outgrowth of religious rituals.

Archaeologist Dr. Larry Coben, the executive director of the Sustainable Preservation Initiative and a seasoned excavator of Incan sites, told The Daily Beast that he would love to take an academically responsible approach to finding the lost cities. Just like his predecessors, Coben would be in the Amazonian jungle conducting exploratory work (in a less sensationalist and more scientific way); unlike them, Coben doesn’t expect to find any gold. “I doubt they are ‘cities of gold,’” he told me, but the mythology is likely to be based on real cities, the discovery of which could yield important information about the sites. “The extraordinary ability of ancient cultures to bring complex urbanity to difficult and not obvious places speaks volumes about their development, technological competence, and social and economic structures.” Unearthing them would help flesh out our understanding of the pre-Colombian world. Those who really want to see the remnants of the “cities of gold” should go to the Museo del Oro in Bogota, which houses the largest collection of gold artifacts in the world.

2. Dilmun

Location of foreign lands for the Mesopotamians, including Elam, Magan, Dilmun, Marhashi and Meluhha.
Founded: **circ** late 4th millennium BC
Abandoned: c. 538 BC
Periods: Bronze Age
Source: Wikipedia

Dilmun was an ancient Semitic speaking city in the Persian Gulf that was first mentioned in the 3rd millennium BCE. It came to the attention of Assyriologists and explorers in the 19th century, when cuneiform texts were recovered and translated. The most famous of these was the Epic of Gilgamesh, which includes the ancient Mesopotamian flood story that likely inspired the Biblical story. Dr. Alexis Boutin, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Sonoma State University, told me that these texts describe Dilmun “as a place with paradise-like qualities, especially noted for its sweet (i.e., fresh) waters.” Because of this, “some people even thought it may have been the location of the original Garden of Eden.” What we do know from the extant Mesopotamian texts is that Dilmun was a major trading partner with Mesopotamia, in particular Meluhha (the Indus civilization) and Magan (Oman). For a while, though, scholars weren’t even sure that this potential Garden of Eden was a civilization at all. Boutin told me that because of the thousands of burial mounds carpeting Bahrain, some nineteenth-century scholars thought that it had served as a necropolis for ancient Mesopotamians. “This theory, however, was later disproven by excavations that revealed that Bronze Age urban and commercial centers on Bahrain were an important part of the Dilmun polity.”

The physical location of Dilmun, however, was disputed for many decades, although it always assumed to be somewhere in the vicinity of the Arabian Gulf. Dr. Boutin told me that “based on archaeological work done in the 1940s and 1950s by folks including Peter Cornwall, Geoffrey Bibby, and P.V. Glob (and since carried on by archaeologists primarily from Denmark, France, and Bahrain), the location of Dilmun is now known to have been centered on Bahrain, although it seems to have extended to parts of Kuwait, eastern Saudi Arabia, and Qatar as well.” As for its mythical garden and sweet smelling waters, those have yet to be discovered.

3. Baiae

**Underwater Archaeological park of the city of Baiae, Italy.**

Everyone needs a place to let off steam; for the emperors and wealthy playboys of the ancient world, the city of Baiae, located on the on the northern edge of the Bay of Naples in Italy, served this purpose from the 1st century BCE through the 5th century CE. Unfortunately for us, and thanks to its location in a volatile volcanic area, at least half of the ancient city was submerged by the 8th century CE. It’s not so much, archaeologist Dr. Kristina Killgrove told me, that we don’t know where it is, we just can’t get to it. She told me that this hidden trove of “villas of the ancient rich and famous” was attractive to early nineteenth-century poets like Keats and Shelley, who talk about the lost wonders of Baiae. Presumably these included important and gorgeous ancient artwork like wall frescoes, artifacts, and sculptures.

Some excavation in the area has been done and modern tourists can also visit the underwater archaeological park. Killgrove said that hopefully more excavation in this area at in the future could “help us learn more about how emperors and other important Romans worked and played.”

4. The Lost City of Kalahari

In 1885 Guillermo Farini (a pseudonym of William Leonard Hunt), a former entertainer at Coney Island in New York, crossed a section of the Kalahari that had previously been unexplored by Westerners. Naturally, Farini was actually looking for diamonds. In the book he published upon his return, Farini claimed that he had come across the ruins of building, a remnant of an unknown civilization. In his book (and, I kid you not, in somewhat patronizing poetry) he described “A half-buried ruin – a huge wreck of stones/ On a lone and desolate spot;/ A temple – or a tomb for human bones/ Left by men to decay and rot. Rude sculptured blocks/ from the red sand project,/ And shapeless uncouth stones appear,/ Some great man’s ashes designed to protect,/ Buried many a thousand year.” His claims were supported by photographs and sketches taken and made by his son during the trip. The legend of the lost city of Kalahari had its origin in local legends in which construction on the city was abandoned because the region was inhospitable. Farini’s “discovery” spawned a South African legend. Others claimed that they too had seen the tell-tale signs of civilization. People compared the discovery to the archaeological discoveries at Great Zimbabwe, a ruined city that flourished from the 11th–15th centuries in the southeastern hills of Zimbabwe.

In the early 20th century no fewer than twenty-five expeditions were undertaken to find the site. F. R. Paver and Dr. W. M. Borcherds used World War II-era reconnaissance aircraft to scour the region, but with no success. In the 1960s Professor A. J. Clement attempted to retrace Farini’s steps. He discovered a set of monumental rocks that seemed suggestive of man-made walls, but they were actually a 180 million-year-old geological feature. Geologists who saw the photographs made by Clement’s team suggested that the rocks were made of dolerite, a kind of igneous rock that, as it erodes, can produce the appearance of regular blocks. Clement concluded that Farini had discovered a natural rock formation and mistaken it for a ruined city. He wrote, “Like all legends, that of the Lost City will be a long time a-dying, and doubtless there will still be some who are disinclined to let the matter rest in spite of all the contrary evidence. And possibly this is just as well, for there is something rather sad about the destruction of a legend.”

Most recently, in 2016, a Travel Channel sponsored expedition to the region hosted by Josh Gates discovered some artificially constructed walls and artwork in the area that may match Farini’s description. Has Kalahari’s Lost City been discovered and does it exist? The jury is still out.

Discovering a ruined ancient city does rather seem like the archaeological equivalent of winning an Olympic gold, but those who have ambitions of rediscovering fallen civilizations should get their vaccinations and protective charms in order. The fate that awaits those who rediscover lost parts of the ancient world is usually an unhappy one.

Howard Carter and his team were struck down by the Mummy’s Curse after opening the tomb of Tutankhamun: first Lord Canarvon died of an infected mosquito bite, several others were blinded and killed, the house of Sir Bruce Ingram (an early visitor to the tomb) burned down. And Douglas Preston and his group acquired a flesh-eating bacteria after their trip to the Honduras. Opening the gates to the past comes with some considerable health risks.

Source: http://www.msn.com

BORN TO DIE – DIE TO LIVE

Death is one of the most feared human phenomenon. The next phase after death is unknown and uncertain, but it is certain that everyone who is born will one day embrace death inevitably.

At the inception of mankind, man was designed to live forever. After the fall of man, death gained entrance into a phase of life in mankind that caused his flesh to disintegrate back to its former state prior to life. Death enveloped the totality of that phase leaving mankind in darkness, suppressing them into the deepest darkest sea.

All through the existence of men, in the quest for life there has never been any genuine record of any man who has ever conquered death until sometime between 6th and 4th B.C when this was proved possible. He was born to die. He died to face death and He conquered death.

”O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? – 1 Corinthians 15:55”

… To hold death in captive, to get back the key to eternal life in other to present it back to mankind, for mankind to regain back his long lost opportunity to be immortal beings.

knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, is never to die again; death no longer is master over Him – Romans 6:9
but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel – 2 Timothy 1:10
Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, – Hebrews 2:14

The Key to eternal Life is not available for all, but for all who will choose to have it. For we are yet born to die but somewhere in between birth and death is the key to the door that will lead us to the true life after death, so we don’t get trapped in the deepest darkest sea.

Our purpose, deeds and achievements according to the will of Him who has conquered death is the pass to get this key.

Remember – And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. – Hebrews 9:27-28

Do you have that key?

THE NEXT SOLAR ECLIPSE IN NIGERIA

A solar eclipse occurs when an observer (on Earth) passes through the shadow cast by the Moon which fully or partially blocks (“occults”) the Sun. This can only happen when the Sun, Moon and Earth are nearly aligned on a straight line in three dimensions (syzygy) during a new moon when the Moon is close to the ecliptic plane. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured.

Solar and Lunar Eclipse

A solar eclipse happens when the New Moon moves between Earth and the Sun while a lunar eclipse occurs when Earth casts a shadow on the Full Moon.

The Solar Eclipse

When is the Next Solar Eclipse in Nigeria?

The next partial solar eclipse in Nigeria is in 438 days on Sunday, 06/21/2020.

The next total solar eclipse in Nigeria is in 5458 days on Monday, 03/20/2034.

The next annular solar eclipse in Nigeria is in 2859 days on Saturday, 02/06/2027.

Future Solar Eclipses

Date	Type	Time of eclipse	Magnitude	Width of eclipse path
02/06/2027	annular	16:00:48	0.9281	282km
03/20/2034	total	10:18:45	1.0458	159km
01/05/2038	annular	13:47:11	0.9728	107km
05/31/2049	annular	13:59:59	0.9631	134km
04/30/2060	total	10:10:00	1.066	222km
12/06/2067	hybrid	14:03:43	1.0011	4km
03/10/2081	annular	15:23:31	0.9304	277km
08/03/2092	annular	09:59:33	0.9794	75km
09/04/2100	total	08:49:20	1.0402	142km
06/03/2114	total	09:14:09	1.0766	248km
05/03/2125	annular	13:42:33	0.9915	31km
03/01/2128	annular	07:48:32	0.994	24km
05/04/2190	annular	10:56:30	0.9577	154km
11/09/2208	hybrid	08:17:12	1.0059	20km
04/15/2219	total	14:26:33	1.0628	207km
07/19/2251	annular	14:18:46	0.9773	85km
08/19/2259	total	13:22:17	1.0412	141km
01/22/2270	total	14:46:29	1.0385	130km
05/20/2338	annular	15:14:20	0.9812	67km
06/21/2392	annular	11:57:58	0.9762	90km

Past solar eclipses

Date	Type	Time of eclipse	Magnitude	Width of eclipse path
03/29/2006	total	10:12:23	1.0515	184km
07/31/1962	annular	12:25:33	0.9716	103km
10/02/1959	total	12:27:00	1.0325	120km
05/20/1947	total	13:47:47	1.0557	196km
01/22/1898	total	07:19:12	1.0244	96km
05/17/1882	total	07:36:27	1.02	72km
02/23/1868	annular	14:21:31	0.9348	244km
10/20/1846	annular	07:46:12	0.9567	159km
05/27/1835	annular	13:35:42	0.9486	196km
07/27/1832	total	14:01:06	1.0776	252km
05/05/1818	annular	07:15:49	0.9464	233km
07/17/1814	total	06:30:29	1.0774	254km
11/29/1807	hybrid	11:42:09	1.0135	55km
06/16/1806	total	16:24:27	1.0604	210km
09/16/1792	annular	09:13:52	0.9739	93km
05/03/1734	total	10:15:56	1.0635	208km
06/22/1694	annular	16:08:45	0.9517	183km
09/12/1662	annular	11:50:45	0.9581	153km
02/06/1655	annular	12:51:54	0.9408	224km
07/02/1647	total	11:21:21	1.0643	217km

The Lunar eclipse

The last lunar eclipse was the Super Blood Wolf Moon on Jan. 20-21, 2019. It was a total lunar eclipse. Here is a schedule of upcoming lunar eclipses:

July 16, 2019: Partial eclipse. Visible from South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Jan. 10, 2020: Penumbral eclipse. Visible from parts of North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.
June 5, 2020: Penumbral eclipse. Visible from parts of South America, Europe, Africa, most of Asia and Australia.
July 5, 2020: Penumbral eclipse. Visible from most of North America, South America, western Europe and Africa.
Nov. 30, 2020: Penumbral eclipse. Visible from North America, South America, northern Europe, eastern Asia and Australia.

NASA keeps a list predicting lunar eclipses until 2100. They also keep data about past lunar eclipses. During the 21st century, Earth will experience a total of 228 lunar eclipses, according to the space agency.

7 Weird Places on Earth

The Earth is one of the most beautiful planet in the Universe. Its structure, ecosystem and its ability to inhabit life in all diversity is exceptional. Below is the list of some weird places on Earth.

7. Spain Rio Tinto

The vast mines of Rio Tinto give a hypnagogic, almost martian landscape. Its growth has consumed not only mountains and valleys but even entire villages. This river has gained recent scientific interest due to the presence of extremophile aerobic bacteria that dwell in the water.The extreme conditions in the river are analogous to other locations in the solar system thought to contain liquid water, such as subterranean Mars. Río Tinto is notable for being very acidic (pH 2) and its deep reddish hue. It is metal solvent and surely not human-friendly!

6. Aurora Borealis (North Pole)

Auroras sometimes called the northern and southern (polar) lights or aurorae are natural beautiful light displays in the sky, usually observed at night, particularly in the polar regions. They typically occur in the ionosphere. The Cree people call this phenomenon the “Dance of the Spirits. Its southern counterpart, the aurora australis or the southern polar lights, has similar properties, but is only visible from high southern latitudes in Antarctica, South America, or Australasia.

5. Fly Geyser, Reno

Fly Ranch features two geysers, one of which is dormant. The other, Fly Geyser, was accidentally formed by a water well drill that hit a geothermal source, and continuously sprays hot water. Fly Ranch is private property and does not allow visitors.

4. Spotted Lake, Osoyoos, British Columbia

Spotted Lake is a saline endorheic alkali lake located northwest of Osoyoos in British Columbia. In the summer, most of the water in the lake evaporates leaving behind all the minerals. Large “spots” on the lake appear and depending on the mineral composition at the time, the spots will be different colors. The spots are made mainly of magnesium sulfate, which crystallizes in the summer. Since in the summer, only the minerals in the lake remain, they harden to form natural “walkways” around and between the spots.

3. Mount Roraima (Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana)

Since long before the arrival of European explorers, the mountain has held a special significance for the indigenous people of the region, and it is central to many of their myths and legends It is a pretty remarkable place. It is a tabletop mountain with sheer 400-meter high cliffs on all sides. There is only one ‘easy’ way up, on a natural staircase-like ramp on the Venezuelan side – to get up any other way takes and experienced rock climber. On the top of the mountain it rains almost every day, washing away most of the nutrients for plants to grow and creating a unique landscape on the bare sandstone surface.

2. Kauai, Hawaii

**Kauaʻi is the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands, it is the fourth largest of the main islands. Seaside lava ledges make for otherworldly experiences on this often-overlooked Hawaiian island.**

1. The Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil’s Triangle, is a region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels are alleged to have mysteriously disappeared in a manner that cannot be explained by human error, piracy, equipment failure, or natural disasters. Popular culture has attributed these disappearances to the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings. Apparently it doesn’t seem alien but it is really scary!

source: http://www.smashinglists.com

Science Fact: Pregnancy is Contagious

Years back my mum told me stories of how she and her bestie got pregnant same time at different period and gave birth to their children almost at same or with intervals of 2-3 weeks. I was amazed and wondered if it was science, spiritual or a mere coincidence.

Not until recently, I realized through various research that having pregnant people around you can increase your risk of becoming pregnant too.

Now, that’s fascinating!

This news can be positive or negative depending on your attainment or position in life.

According to a 2014 American study, pregnancy can be contagious among women in the same social circle. The chances of getting pregnant when you bestie is pregnant is also very high.

THE STUDY

Researchers’ analysed data of 1,720 women who participated in the study called the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. In the United States from mid-90s to mid-2000s, female participants who were at least 15 years old in 1995 were tracked through home interviews for the following 10 years.

During that 10 years, the researchers saw that nearly half of the women had a child by the time the final interview was conducted in either 2008 or 2009.

And during those interviews, researchers found out that the women had up to 10 “friendship ties” which tipped the researchers off that there might be a pattern among groups of friends as they got older.

Researchers looked specifically on the pairs that had high school friends through later years and found that yeah, that group of friends has a strong “contagion” for planned pregnancies.

“We found this effect to be short-term and inverse U-shaped: an individual’s risk of childbearing starts increasing after a friend’s childbearing, reaches a peak around two years later, then decrease,” the researchers noted.

THE CAUSE

According to the study, this pattern is what they call the “fertility influence” and the researchers tried to narrow it down exactly what was going on and why this happens.

Social learning: This is the theory that women are more likely to decide on motherhood themselves when they see a close friend do it successfully.
Social influence: Ladies don’t want to be “left behind” if their friends are moving on to this phase of their life.
And the third is what the researchers are calling cost-sharing. They say that there are some financial perks between friends if they can coordinate childcare and activities.

Well! if you don’t know, now you know.

More Evidence

At an elementary school in Kansas nearly half the teachers are pregnant or have just had babies. The school posted a photo of the 7 mamas-to-be on Facebook.

WOW! Interesting…

Journal of Applied Computational Mechanics Approved by Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz

Flow and Heat Transfer Analysis of the Sodium Alginate Conveying Copper Nanoparticles between Two Parallel Plates by Akin T. Akinshilo.

Abstract. In this study, the steady in-compressible flow of a non-Newtonian sodium alginate (SA) fluid conveying copper nano-particles (Cu) which flow within two vertical parallel plates is investigated by using the homotopy perturbation analytical scheme to solve the coupled nonlinear ordinary equations arising from the mechanics of the fluid. The developed analytical solutions are used to investigate the effect of the fluid flow and heat transfer parameters such as the nano-particle concentration, the non-Newtonian parameter and the viscosity variation parameter. The obtained analytical results as compared to existing works in literature are in satisfactory agreements. Moreover, the results obtained from the present study can be used for further analysis of the behavior of the sodium alginate in applications such as food processing and chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

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HELEN PAUL AKA TATAFO BAGS PhD

On Friday, March 29, 2019, one of the popular Nigerian actress and comedienne, Helen Paul bagged a Ph.D in Theatre Arts from the University of Lagos making her the first stand-up comedian to earn a doctorate degree.

The comedienne, who is popularly known as Tatafo and distinguished by her childish tone announced this achievement on her Instagram handle @itshelenpaul.

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