The domed ceiling of SF State’s Charles F. Hagar Planetarium dazzled with the image of the San Francisco night sky on Thursday as part of “Noche de Estrellas,” a bilingual astronomy event. The family-friendly event was designed to be accessible for a diverse range of ages and educational backgrounds. Some attendees had very little experience in astrology, but enjoyed the star-studded experience nonetheless. It began with research presentations in Spanish by SF State student Joselyn Espinoza Lopez and in English by SF State professor John Brewer. After that, attendees walked down the hall to the planetarium, where they were led…
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Clear some space on your bookshelves because the next big Quincy Friends of the Library book sale is almost here!Mark your calendar forThursday, Nov. 3rd, 2-6p.m. (Friends’ Members only)Friday, Nov. 4th, 10-5 p.m.Saturday, Nov. 5th, 10-2 p.m. Just in time for the holidays, the sale will feature a large selection of gently used books, CDs, and other media perfect for gift-giving, for help with entertaining, or for your own fireside enjoyment.AdvertisementThe sale will be held as usual in the Community Room of the Plumas County Library in Quincy and there are many new and interesting books for you to choose…
GENEVA — The U.N.’s refugee agency said Friday that destruction from flooding has displaced more than 3.4 million people in west and central Africa.The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said Friday that Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade have killed hundreds, displaced 1.3 million residents and affected over 2.8 million people in the West African nation of 218 million. Survivors had to scurry for higher ground as water submerged farmland and infrastructure. Many have been living in camps for the internally displaced that were set up in part to help people fleeing simmering violence in the region, among other troubles.“The climate…
Parents, the next time your child wants to play one more level of a video game, it might be a good idea to let them. Children who play video games every day show improved cognitive skills compared to children who don’t play video games at all, according to a study published Monday in the medical journal JAMA Network Open.”Video gaming may be associated with improved cognitive abilities involving response inhibition and working memory and with alterations in underlying cortical pathways,” the study reads.Researchers with the University of Vermont in Burlington looked at brain activity data of about 2,000 children between…
Giganta Moles – A New Beginning (Austin Macauley, £8.99) is written by Chris Best, of Backwoods Lane, and illustrated by Ashleigh Best from Hailsham.Chris, 63, said his daughter came up with the idea in the mid-2000s at just eight years old.He said: “She was living with her mum in Hailsham and I was in Haywards Heath at the time. It was during our journeys backwards and forwards. We’d just come out of Newick and there were these fields on the left with these huge mounds that looked like soil.”Chris and Ashleigh Best with their recently published book, Giganta Moles –…
(Alliance News) – Airtel Africa PLC on Thursday said it saw strong interim revenue growth, but profit was held back by the devaluation of certain African currencies. In the half year ended September 30, the Africa-focused telecommunications firm said revenue grew 13% year-on-year to USD2.57 billion from USD2.27 billion. In constant currency, it rose 17%, with appreciation in Zambian kwacha offset but devaluations in several other currencies. Mobile Money revenue saw the strongest growth, rising 28%, with Voice revenue up 7.5%, Data revenue up 18% and other revenue rising 7.9%. “Revenue growth in the half was impacted again by the…
The co-investment fund Catalytic Africa, established in 2019 by the African Business Angels Network (ABAN) and AfriLabs, has concluded transactions in 10 countries in the last year. The partnership between AfriLabs, a pan-African network of technology and innovation centres, and ABAN aims to increase the pool of capital available to promising African growth-stage entrepreneurs, support the startup ecosystem, and increase the visibility of impact to institutional funders. It created Catalytic, a co-investment fund that will match investments made by registered angel investors with institutional funds. The initiative is supported by Agence Francaise de Developpement (AFD) and the Digital Africa fund.…
Children who played three hours or more of video games a day performed better on tests of memory and impulse control than youngsters who did not play games, a US study released this week said.Frequent gamers showed more activity and higher blood oxygen levels in frontal brain regions associated with more cognitively demanding tasks, and less brain activity in regions related to vision, the researchers found.The performance could be related to the games, but scientists stopped short of saying there was a cause-and-effect relationship.The kids who perform better on those tests may be those who chose to play games in…
Every child and young person in Wales will have free access to a new bilingual digital music platform to help them discover their first musical notes. Charanga Cymru is a digital platform which is now available free of charge to all schools in Wales as a teaching and learning resource to support the National Plan for Music Education. The bilingual platform has been developed through partnership work between the Welsh Government, Charanga and the Welsh Local Government Association. To help teachers become familiar with the new platform, a resource pack for six weeks of work will be provided initially for…
This article is part of State of Health, a series about how Michigan communities are rising to address health challenges. It is made possible with funding from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund.Over two and a half years after Detroit resident Ryan Sharpe got COVID-19, he still hasn’t recovered. Sharpe still experiences extreme fatigue, loss of strength and stamina, impaired cognition, a lower stress tolerance, and impacts on his gait.”Over time, it’s gotten a little bit better, but just interacting with people takes a lot of energy. At one point in time, … even talking over the phone made me tired [and] stressed…