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spartan117:
What matters is what you do with it not necessarily how high it is. A person with an IQ of 100 can become far more successful than those with higher IQ's in his chosen field

Exactly Bro. Quite a handful of intellectuals had an higher IQ than Einstein. Yet, he's widely regarded as the greatest man to live in the 20th century.

The fact that he even got 171 with this dreadful and horrendous English proves beyond reasonable doubt that his money actually availed. Else, his scores wouldn't have transcended the 70 to 90 mark.

soberdrunk:
Good thing i am "lactose intolerant"..... See head like Mitsubishi lancer headlamp .....

Chai!!! Bros, you wicked o

Haggui:
Do you want me to become deaf? How can I waste my time listening to that noisemaking they call rap?

Lol. How were you able to deduce it's noise when you've never listened to it? The dude is one of the best upcoming Yoruba rappers in Nigeria.
http://www..ng/download-mp3/music-zlatan-ibile-zlatan

That song is just awesome. Adekunle Gold is known for quality hits

Haggui:
I wonder o. If that zlatan can be classified as a fast rising rapper, then rap is dead in Nigeria

How many Zlatan's rap songs have you listened to?

I just can't help but laugh while reading this This man is better off as a comedian

How does one apply? This post is only loaded with preambles

And how does this stop us from sending the dullard back to Daura next year?

And you're sure this kind of market has goods worth millions?

okuneddie:
abeg who is that pregnant man wey tie something for waist

That's the governor of Enugu state o. Ifeanyi

AnodaIT:
You don use something comfortably for 365 days
Just one day it didn't work, they are criminals

So, they didn't pay for that whole 365 days they've been using it for? Or they didn't pay for this one that vanished in an instant

You're using 9000naira and large memory in the same sentence in this Buhari era

Nice one OP

DAmericanDream:
KDB has the best midfield and player stat so far this season in the EPL and considering his contribution to City title charge that is why he is the early favorite for the PFA award come May. Good nite!

Bro, all the stats you've posted so far is nonsense. Why won't De Bruyne top those chats when he has played a whooping 10 games more? Head off to squawka.com and generate statistical comparisons between Pogba and De Bruyne per 90 mins metrics or per game and see the results

Seems you always expect everyone to click links to read it all in your blog. How would any of your threads ever make front page this way?

Chukwudaalu:
With the development of specialized proteins in gene editing such as the CRISPRs, genetic engineering is becoming interestingly easy.
In addition to CRISPRs, there are other varieties of specialized proteins used in gene editing, which include Zinc Finger Nucleases (ZFNs) and Transcription Activator Like Effector Nucleases(TALEN). But I think scientists are more fascinated to the CRISPRs because of its simple cell delivery and elegant design.
I don't think Nigeria is ready for this kind of technology. Genetic engineering has its own risks. Also ethical issues should be put into consideration.
At OP, this is a brilliant article.

Your salient contribution is graciously acknowledged. I don't think Nigeria is ready for anything pertaining to technology in the first instance. I'm just optimistic this technology will be adopted should the trials prove successful.

A QUICK INSIGHT INTO GENETIC ENGINEERING AND THE CRISPR TECHNOLOGY

An End To Sickle Cell, HIV, Cancer, and all sorts of diseases

BACKGROUND
Since time immemorial, humans through selective breeding have strengthened useful traits in plants and animals via diverse processes. Thanks to scientific and technological advancements, these processes were later discovered in the mid 20th century to be modifications on the DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acids) of such plants and animals. Consequently, scientists in the 1960s bombarded plants with radiation to cause a mutation in their genetic code with the aim of getting useful variations by chance. With future significant advancements, the first genetically modified food was created in 1994 - The flavr Savr Tomato, a tomato with an extra gene that suppresses the build up of rotten enzymes, subsequently granting it a longer life span.
On human engineering, a certain set of babies were made to carry genetic information from 3 humans in the 90s to treat maternal infertility, making them the first babies ever to have 3 genetic parents. In that era and the subsequent decades, gene editing has been well documented to be extremely expensive, complicated and time intensive - until the advent of a revolutionary new entry technology known as CRISPR.


WHAT IS CRISPR?
CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats is a relatively new gene-editing technique based off of a bacteria defense system.


https://www.whatisepigenetics.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/CRISPR-Cas9-biologist.jpg


HOW DOES IT WORK?
Since the dawn of life, viruses and bacteria had been at war. Virus overpowers a bacterium by injecting its genetic code into it, forcing it to do its work. However should a bacterium survive this attack, it keeps a little portion of the virus' DNA locked in a genetic archive called CRISPR. In case of a future invasion from this virus, the bacterium accesses its archive and converts this viral DNA into RNA, which is in turn transformed into a secret weapon called Cas9 - an enzyme that hunts down any DNA that matches the one in the archive and expertly cuts it out of the bacteria.
The CRISPR system targets and modifies precise gene sequences with the aid of the Cas9 and guide RNA (gRNA), which implies it's mechanism is simply based on the naturally occurring ability of bacteria to recognize and destroy invading viruses via a genetic memory.
In an attempt at getting rid of diseases from the root, this mechanism will be deployed by scientists in fixing all genetic errors responsible for the disease in an individual’s DNA.


WHAT DOES CRISPR DO?
According to an info graphic on futurism.com, CRISPR technology can be used in -
❄ Deleting undesirable genes from the genome (the complete genetic information of an organism)
❄ Introducing new genes to the genome and increasing the overall functionality of cells
❄ Controlling gene activity levels which help in maintaining protein balance in the cells
❄ Reactivating dead genes to resume their integral functions.
CRISPR technology will be primarily used in modifying baby's genes as well, hereby eliminating all hereditary diseases and abnormalities prior to their birth


HOW IMPORTANT IS CRISPR?
The overall benefits of CRISPR encompasses, but not limited to -
❄ Revolutionizing gene therapy, making it possible to treat diseases that would have been naturally impossible to treat without this process.
❄ Engineering cells to enhance productivity while generating drug precursors in bacterial factories, significantly reducing therapeutic costs.
❄ Permitting the creation of new plant and animal models on which drugs and vaccines researches can be conducted on.
❄ Editing crops to resist harsh environmental hazards and infections, hereby increasing global food security and many more.

HOW SOON IS CRISPR COMING TO OUR DOORSTEP?
Ever since scientists edited living human cells in 2013 via CRISPR-Cas9, multiple emphasis have been made on how this technology would be channeled towards the eradication of diverse life-threatening diseases in the immediate future.
However, thanks to the breakneck speed by which CRISPR technologies have advanced in the past few years and it's commercialization by reputable companies, patients in Europe and the United States could be treated with CRISPR-based therapies as soon as 2018.
While there's been no documented research on CRISPR here in Nigeria, several trials in developed countries are about to spring up in the forthcoming year. CRISPR THERAPEUTICS in Cambridge have officially requested a permission from European regulators to begin a trial next year. Beta thalassemia, an inherited blood disorder would be genetically fixed in patients with the aid of this gene-editing technology.
As revealed by the CEO of CRISPR Therapeutics Samarth Kulkarni, the company will seek approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration to begin a CRISPR trial for Sickle-cell disease in the first half of 2018.
Should these trials prove successful and void of harmful complications, it would be paving a way for a long future of innovative and boundary-pushing CRISPR treatments. From antibiotic resistance to the treatment of cancer and HIV via disease reversal and obliteration, gene-editing could become the new fundamental and essential therapy that defines the medicine of tomorrow.

HOPE FOR NIGERIANS?
Since the Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) era started in 1996,
following the publications of studies revealing the greatly enhanced efficacies of triple therapies in the management of HIV-AIDS. The National AIDS treatment
programme geared towards expanding access to
Anti-Retroviral drugs in Nigeria was instituted in 1999 and 7 years later, the benefits of HAART
on a Nigerian population of people living with HIV￾AIDS (PLWHA) were reported in Port Harcourt.
While it's an undeniable fact that most developed countries are scientifically and technologically ahead of their counterparts in this part of the world, it's safe to presume we're just few years behind these nations in terms of access to the CRISPR technology as long as appropriate measures are taken by the Nigerian government in ensuring its availability.

Article written by the creator of this thread
Twitter /Instagram - @SureTeeBoy

REFERENCES FOR FURTHER READING
futurism.com/first-crispr-clinical-trial/
https://www.whatisepigenetics.com/gene-editing-crispr-cas9-designer-babies/
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609722/crispr-in-2018-coming-to-a-human-near-you/
https://mobile.the-scientist.com/article/51174/crispr-to-debut-in-clinical-trials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhjPd4uNFY
Cc lalasticlala, mynd44

discman2k2:
There are some things called electromagnetic waves, which is full of energy. When u make or receive calls from ur celluphone, it draws or attracts a very high intensity emw (electromagnetic waves). An d if there is aanything im d pathway of d energy, it sparks it: Gas in enclosed area or fuel that is around without any warning (instant). Lest i forget, fuel or Cooking gas are called Volatile gases or substances, meaning "easily ignitable "
So, when u combined a high amount of energy pathways of the emw, in an environment of Volatile gases, u get an instant EXPLOSION (without warning ).

Thast y we must not be extremely careful around those substances, like Cooking gases, Gas fuels, or petrol or Perfumes, or some others of its kind.

WARNING : PLS BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL AROUND ANY VOLATILE SUBSTANCE.

MAY GOD HELP US ALL. AMEN!

False!!! Mobile devices make use of radio waves - a non-ionizing electromagnetic wave with the least frequency and energy on the electromagnetic spectrum. Isn't it funny you're using this and "high energy" in the same sentence? Phone calls will never trigger an explosion and there's been no record of such in sane countries all around the globe. You'll only see such news in this part of the world where everyone follows and adopt all conjectures.

Dalek:
This stupid report again?? But no way in Hell can phone call ignite a fucking gas canister. y'all have brain use it and make ur own research ffs.

Nigerians na wa oo.

Phone calls won't trigger a gas explosion. Static electricity does. But they'll never make research and rather resort to displaying their ignorance on public forums.

Duplicate thread https://www.nairaland.com/4090316/13-richest-countries-world-pictures

When the science world is making advancement on futuristic technologies like the quantum computers whose mechanism is based on the superposition and Quantum Entanglement of sub-atomic particles, some Nigerians that are not scientifically inclined will just sit in a room and type nonsense on public forums about scientific discoveries.

It's quite amazing how people bereft of scientific knowledge display their ignorance in public forums like this.
A black-body at room temperature appears black, as most of the energy it radiates is infra-red and cannot be perceived by the human eye. Because the human eye cannot perceive color at very low light intensities, a black body, viewed in the dark at the lowest just faintly visible temperature, subjectively appears grey (but only because the human eye is sensitive only to black and white at very low intensities - in reality, the frequency of the light in the visible range would still be red, although the intensity would be too low to discern as red)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
Black body radiation can be measured by sensors that are sensitive to the temperature differences in the captured data. By processing this data, an image can be produced that displays a thermal mapping. When combined with optics, a thermal image of the surrounding area is generated in a process known as the FLIR detection model.
https://www.ci-systems.com/blackbodies

BanevsJoker:
Na wah for you. Did you even read my comment before replying? Look at the first picture again, behind the stormtrooper on the left. I'm done explaining to you. Have fun.

lol. I saw what you're talking about. The Last Jedi was visible in that poster which perfectly explains the topic of this thread. The other moniker thought it's an old picture and I tried correcting that.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/42335577/star-wars-heres-what-happened-at-the-last-jedi-premiere

BanevsJoker:
Na wah for you. Did you even read my comment before replying?

Are you also insinuating the pics are old as the moniker I quoted stated? If that's the case, I think you're the one who needs to check what you wrote earlier again.

BanevsJoker:
Dude, look at the background in the first pic, it's clearly The Last Jedi. A movie premiere is meant to hold before the movie is available to the general public. Funny how the guy you "corrected" just accepted without doing extra research. Just like politicians and Nigerian voters.

You're wrong Bro. The Last Jedi hasn't been released. It's hitting the theaters this Friday and by virtue of this, it's yet unavailable to the general public

1Sharon:
But this is old now The star wars films came out when?

That was "Star Wars: The Force Awakens". "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" is hitting the theaters on Friday, 15th of December 2017.

samyfreshsmooth:
Oga i didnt want to start an unnecessary argument this morning that's why i said "you win" earlier but then again lemme enlighten you a little

proof is a noun and can be used as an adjective too
prove on the other hand is a verb and can also be used as an adj in the form "proven"


clearly in ur sentence you wanted (and rightly so) to use the verb form of proof which is prove


they cant be inter changed......a verb is a verb and a noun a noun


what the comments here did was to "prove" (an action) the man right

The guy just dey yarn nonsense. Mistaking a verb for a noun.

Saw this on curiosity.com yesterday. Y'all should endeavor to check out that amazing website