Source: Heartmenders Magazine  By Sonny Oboson   Digital divide is a term that refers to the gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology , and those that don't or have restricted access. This technology can include the telephone, television, personal computers , and the Internet . Well before the late 20th century, digital divide referred chiefly to the division between those with and without telephone access; after the late 1990s, the term began to be used mainly to describe the split between those with and without Internet access, particularly broadband . The digital divide typically exists between those in cities and those in rural areas; between the educated and the uneducated; between socioeconomic groups; and, globally, between the more and less industrially developed nations. Even among populations with some access to technology, the digital divide can b...

Source: Heartmenders Magazine  By Rose Ebere  As a long-term teacher in the primary school, I have encountered several cases of bullying first hand. Bullying is not a new phenomenon. It has been an age-long thing. Bullying comes in different forms or styles. Not only children or teenagers are bullied, adults can be bullied; even a country can bully another country. But for the purpose of this article, we would be dealing with bullying concerning children at school. Children can be bullied in their neighborhood etc. Bullying is prevalent where children or peers always gather to interact. Which is why the school is a very predominant ground where it usually occurs most times. What is bullying? And why should a parent be concerned about their child being bullied? How can a parent discern that his or her child is being bullied even if the child refuses to talk? Is there anything a parent can do to boost his or her chances of getting their children tell them their m...

NASA produced these extremely accurate maps of the 2017 solar eclipse. Source: VOX Updated by  Brian Resnick @B_resnick brian@vox.com     On August 21, for the  first time in 99 years , a total solar eclipse will cut through the entire continental United States. It’s going to be awesome. If you’re in the bull’s eye center of the moon’s shadow known as the totality — the sky will go dark for a few minutes in the middle of the day, stars will appear, birds will become confused and start chirping their nighttime songs. And it’s all because of a cosmic coincidence: From the Earth, both the moon and sun appear to be roughly the same size. Most of the country will see a partial eclipse, which is also cool. But for the complete show, you need to be in the 60-mile wide path of the totality. Luckily NASA has mapped the path of the totality to an absurd detail. As NASA data visualizer  Ernie Wright  explains in the video below, normally people dra...

Source: Heartmenders Magazine By Dr. DEE. F Dominic One of the areas it is always good spreading your seeds on multiple channels or avenues is in the field of investments. Undoubtedly, Africa is a continent that is standing out among all other continents of the world considering how richly it is endowed with abundant human, natural and agricultural resources. Better yielding land for both cash crop and food crop production exist in Africa. Africa is the only continent that possesses the resources needed by the developed economies to sustain the rate of their development and growth today, which is why the time to come invest in Africa is now. The expected strong growth in the world’s economy is higher in Africa than in many of the developed nations. From the World Bank projections, out of the 15 countries in the world with the highest rate of five-year economic growth, 9 are in Africa. Yes, the factual estimation of the IMF that the real GDP of sub-Saharan Africa as ...