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On Understanding Albinism, Debunking the Myths, and the Possibility of Having a Cure

Introduction This post was inspired by the news I read, that a popular Nigerian Nollywood actor is set to divorce his wife for giving birth to an albino baby. (...

Making our own Vitamin D: Can we now say that Humans also undergo Photosynthesis?

Introduction In primary school, we were taught that photosynthesis is a process whereby green plants use sunlight to synthesize their own food and nutrients fro...

Religious fanaticism: The Smiling Face of the Unspoken Nigerian Nightmare

Introduction From the Maitatsine riots of 1980 to the insurgency of Bokoharam since 2009 till date, religious fanaticism has been a catalyst for bloodshed in Ni...

What gives cockroaches the ability to survive without their heads, and why can't humans do the same?

Introduction Decapitation (cutting of the head) could easily be termed as the most gruesome way any human being could be killed, but it has been established tha...

Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers: Killer Diseases that turn humans into Biological Weapons

Introduction The Ebola Outbreak was a nightmare to mankind (License: Public Domain]: Pixabay Between the years 2013 and 2015, Africa suffered the biggest outbre...

INBORN ERRORS OF METABOLISM (What they are and how they affect unborn children)

Introduction and General Overview It takes a whole lot of metabolic activities for the human body to survive. From breathing to eating, walking and every other ...

Antibiotic Resistance: A Threat to Human Existence- (The Causes, Mechanisms and Possible Solutions)

According to medical experts, over 2 million people in the United States become ill every year with antibiotic resistant infections, and an estimated 23,000 peo...

SteemSTEM Distilled #26

Welcome to the 26th issue of SteemSTEM Distilled, a curation effort by the members of the @steemstem team. SteemSTEM is a community driven project which seeks t...

Cannabis and Marijuana: The Good, The Bad and Ugly

Although it is clearly written on most tobacco products that “smokers are liable to die young”, humans have refused to totally drop the habit of smoking, becaus...

Necrotizing Fasciitis; The flesh eating disease- it’s brief history, causes,diagnoses, prevention, treatment,mode of entry etc. Warning:The images shown here are sensitive and gross

IMAGE A INTRODUCTION I was surfing the internet when I saw a picture of a man diagnosed with this life threatening infection -(necrotizing fasciitis) and decide...

Songs of a Broken Heart

He tries to keep himself from crying, but the tears betray him yet again. They roll down his face till they come spreading across his lips, a salty tang of bitt...

My Quest for Money almost killed me, but I got a Second Chance: my entry for @jerrybanfield's Supernatural Writing Contest

This is my entry for the Supernatural Writing Contest hosted by @jerrybanfield I have lived with this secret all my life, and I never knew that I was ever going...

The Hidden Dangers of Microwaving Your food

Microwaving is probably one of the most convenient ways of preparing food, but the price we pay for that convenience may be life-threatening. https://d2ebzu6go6...

Do You Treat People Badly Because They're Not Beautiful? I Did it, and i regretted it.

When I walked into the class this morning, I saw a girl flipping frantically through the pages of a biochemistry textbook. She looked visibly frustrated as she ...

Paracetamol-induced Liver Toxicity: The thin line between Taking a pain killer and destroying your Liver

Paracetamol is the world’s most popular pain killer, but it could also potentially trigger the most dangerous kind of liver disease. In the hectic world we live...

NO TO MEDIOCRITY!!!

Do you know Jide Odukoya? He just won wedding photographer of the year. He is a celebrity photographer and has thousands of followers on instagram. Dino malaye ...

Are you satisfied?

Back in those days as a little child, dinner or lunch always ended with me saying something like, “Daddy thank sir, and God bless you”, to which my dad would re...

Someone Said that Excessive Sex and Masturbation causes Baldness; is this True or should we Blame Excessive Sugar ?

Some days ago, I found myself in a beer-parlor kind of setting where someone was vehemently arguing that “too much sex and masturbation” will make his friend go...

Pennsif's Pot (must change this name) - Giving Away US$50 and US$100 Grants - Pitch your Proposal

https://pennsif.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/dollars-pixabay-2931882-450x360.jpg A couple of weeks ago I wrote about why I was winding down my A Dollar A Day ...

Art Prompt Writing Contest #9

Welcome to the first Art Prompt Writing Contest of 2018. The art portion ended a few days ago and I selected this piece from @azbeen as the winner earlier today...