How Imaginative Young People Are Making The World A Better Place

It’s one thing to be young with a wild imagination, but another to harness that creative power through an invention that can impact the world in a significant way.

By the age of 17, Brittany Wenger had done just that, taking inspiration from her life experiences and developing Cloud4Cancer, a minimally invasive breast cancer detection tool that helps doctors diagnose the disease earlier and more accurately. She joined HuffPost Live host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani today to discuss her motivation, her meeting with President Obama about her research, and how refreshing it is to see young people channeling their passions into such innovative projects.

“When I was in 10th grade, my cousin was diagnosed with breast cancer, and I saw firsthand the experience it was for her and the rest of our family,” said Wenger. “And I found out she wasn’t alone. In fact one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. And the quickest, cheapest and least invasive test is wildly inconclusive, so a lot of doctors refuse to use it. So that’s when I really wanted to create something that help doctors in diagnosing those tests.”

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Milky Way galaxy is being pushed across the universe

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Your First Month Learning French: A Step-by-Step Guide

So you want to learn how to speak French? Très bien ! French is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, being official in 29 countries. These include Canada and Haiti in North America, French Guiana in South America, more than a dozen African nations, five European countries, and Vanuatu and several French overseas territories in Oceania. French is beautiful, popular, and very useful. Yet, despite what some native French speakers would have you believe, there’s one thing that French definitely isn’t: difficile. French might have a reputation for being incredibly difficult for non-natives, but I can tell you from experience, this isn’t true.

Advice for Students and Jobseekers: When Experience Comes Your Way, Take It

“Whatever hands-on experience you can get, take it, and take more than you think you can handle. Don’t limit your writing experience to the typical classroom workshop environment, where egos can be fragile and stakes are low.”

In this advice, Jane Friedman is specifically referring to undergrad students who are pursuing a creative writing degree. It’s good advice for them, and there’s more from her here.

I think this lesson applies to beginning careers of all kinds: When you’re starting out or trying to establish yourself in an unfamiliar industry, whatever experience you can get, take it.

You know that old thing about how you can’t get a good job without experience, and you can’t get experience without the job?

Osun State University Shut Over Police Shooting

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Jollof Rice made me go to UNN – Pastor Adeboye

The general overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has said that jollof rice and chicken being enjoyed by the students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, way back in 1962, made him to choose the UNN as a university where he would do his first degree.

Adeboye who was awarded with an honorarily doctorate degree of Doctor of Divinity, DD by the University on Tuesday, said that he developed interest in the University when he went with his fellow students on an excursion to UNN in 1962 and saw students eating jollof rice with half a chicken.

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The cleric said that when he saw the way the students were enjoying then, he decided that he God permitted, he would come to UNN to study and lucky enough, the following year, 1963, he gained admission into the prestigious University.

President Trump bans federal funding for abortion

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It comes just two days after women led a massive protest march in Washington to defend their rights, including to abortion.

The decision to ban foreign aid to groups that lobby in support of abortion rights is certain to deepen concern among already apprehensive US family planning and women’s rights organizations.

Stenny Hoyer, a Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, sharply criticized Trump for using his first week in office “to attack women’s health.”

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“It should be no surprise to the millions of women and men who gathered in protest this weekend across the country –- and around the world –- that Republicans are focused more on making it harder for women to access health care than on the serious economic and security challenges we face.”