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The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday, said he would have encouraged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to adopt “a gradualist approach to FX management”. In an X post on Sunday, Atiku made grand recommendations for turning the economy around, while referencing a Thursday meeting with President Bola Tinubu. He explained that the move would have been a panacea to curbing the free fall in the value of the naira against the dollar if…

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday, said he would have encouraged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to adopt “a gradualist approach to FX management”. In an X post on Sunday, Atiku made grand recommendations for turning the economy around, while referencing a Thursday meeting with President Bola Tinubu. He explained that the move would have been a panacea to curbing the free fall in the value of the naira against the dollar if…

Emojis are used throughout online communications, but little is known about the way each individual perceives them. Researchers investigated how emoji comprehension differs by culture (UK vs. China) and gender (male vs. female) for a sample of six emoji (happy, sad, angry, surprised, fearful and disgusted). They found significant differences in how emojis were classified by the 523 participants, highlighting the importance of context in emoji use. N.B.:…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As a purely voluntary form of disclosure, management earnings forecasts may tell us as much about the managers themselves as about their company's financial future. All sorts of personality traits may influence the content and cadence of forecasts, but you would expect core attributes—such as political ideology, which has been likened to an "official religion" in the United States—to be the…

Scientists are researching how genetic mutations in every cell of the human body contribute to aging and the risk of related diseases like cancer. Using advanced sequencing technologies, their study aims to determine if the rate of mutations varies among individuals and how these variations might predict lifespan and disease risk. Their work is part of a larger effort to understand genetic changes across the human lifespan. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Why do people age differently? With $3.5M National Institutes of Health…

A simulated example of the multimedia and text versions of a Facebook status update in the study. Photos from pexels.com. Credit: Wang et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) In a new study, viewers of Facebook users' posts came away with perceptions of the users that differed from the users' own self-perceptions. Qi Wang and colleagues at Cornell University, New York, US, present these findings…

Born in London, Lewis, 38, went to stage school at the age of six. After winning The X Factor, she released her debut album, Spirit, in 2007. Her song Bleeding Love was No 1 in 35 countries and became 2008’s bestselling single worldwide. In 2009, she sang I See You, the theme for the film Avatar. Nominated for three Grammys and six Brits, she has won Mobo, MTV and World Music awards. This year, she celebrates the 10th anniversary of her album Christmas, With Love, which gave her the festive hit One More Sleep. She is…

I worked for a billionaire. One time he went to lunch and didn't bring his wallet. When they brought the check, he just signed it and started walking out of the restaurant The server chased after him and said he needed to leave a form of payment and that his signature wouldn't be enough. He responded, with indignation, "Do you know who I am? My signature is more than enough.". That's something no normal person would even think of trying because it's just absurd. easyjimi1974 , cottonbro studio Report …

If you’ve ever felt that a Zoom meeting or video call wasn’t scratching your itch for an in-person chat, science is on your side. Staring at another person’s face via a live computer screen prompts lower levels of certain brain activities and social arousal, compared with seeing them in reality, according to a study published last month in the journal Imaging Neuroscience. In a world where screens now frequently supplant real-life sit-downs, the study hints that there could be social consequences to leaning heavily on…

This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the full collection for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. That those who lean to opposite ends of the political spectrum think differently from each other is obvious. That such differences show up in brain scans is intriguing. Brain scanning is a low-resolution approach to studying neural activity, incapable of seeing how the cells which do the actual thinking are connected to each other.…