Anika Reyansh

Singapore Executed Its First Woman In 18 Years For Drug Trafficking, Since Yen May Woen In 2004. Saridewi Binte Djamani, 45, Was Hanged For Possessing 30.72 Grams Of Heroin. But Anti-Death Penalty Advocates Argue That Such Law/Punishment Is Inhumane And Doesn’t Deter Drug Use Or Availability, As A Study In The Philippines Has Found.

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Michelle Yeoh, A Malaysian, Made History As The First Asian Woman To Win The Best Actress Award In The 95-Year History Of The Oscars. She Won, In Her First Ever Nomination, At The 2023 Oscars, For Her Performance In The Movie, “Everything Everywhere All At Once.” The Movie Also Made History As The First Science Fiction Film To Win Best Picture

Adiah And Adrial Nadarajah, According To The Guinness World Records, Are The World’s Most Premature Twins. The Canadian Siblings Were Born At 21.3 Wks– 126 Days Early, Overtaking The Previous Record Of 125 Days Early Birth Set In 2018 By Identical Twins Kambry and Keeley Ewoldt In Iowa, US. A Full-Term Pregnancy Is Usually 9 Months (39 Wks).

Doctors From Two Countries, For The First Time In History, Used Virtual Reality During The Successful Separation Of 3-Year Old Twins, Bernardo And Arthur Lima, Who Were Born With “Fused Brains”. The 27-Hour Operation, Involving More Than 100 Medics, Took Place At The Instituto Estadual do Cerebro Paulo Niemeyer In Rio de Janeiro, Brazi.

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Aminata Touré Has Again Made History After Being Sworn In As The First Minister Of African (Mali) Origin In Germany. Ms. Touré, Age 29, Was Appointed As Minister For Social Affairs, Youth, Family, Senior Citizens, Integration And Equality In Schleswig-Holstein, Which Is One Of The 16 States Of Germany, With The Capital City As Kiel.

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Emily Whitehead, Who Was Diagnosed With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia At The Age Of 5 Years Old, After 2 Years Of Unsuccessful Chemotherapy And Rapidly Declining Health, Become The First Child To Receive The CAR T-Cell Therapy At Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia. Emily Is Now Celebrating 10 Years Of Being Cancer Free. Cool!

The 9 Babies Born On The Same Day Of May 2021, Are Said To Be In Perfect Health Condition As They Celebrate Their First Birthday. The 9 Babies, 5 Girls And 4 Boys, Broke The Guinness World Records For The Most Babies Delivered In A Single Birth. The Babies Were Birthed In Morocco By A Malian Couple, Abdelkader Arby & Halima Cissé

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A New Study Of About 405,981 British Adults Indicates That Walking Faster Could Add 20 More Years To A Person’s Biological Age. The Researchers Discovered That Walking Faster, Regardless Of Other Physical Activities, Could Lead To Longer Telomeres, Which Are The Protective “Caps” On The Ends Of The Chromosomes That Help Stabilize The DNA.

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Researchers, In A First Of It’s Kind, Using 130,000 Eye Retinal Images, Coupled With Machine Learning, Were Able To Estimate A Person’s Biological Age From Their Actual Age. And The Retinal Age Gap Seem To Be An Independent Predictor Of Increased Mortality Risk, Especially Of Non-cardiovascular Disease And Non-Cancer Mortality.

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A Set Of Californian Twins Have Achieved An Extremely Rare Feat By Being Born In Different Years. The Male Twin, Alfredo Antonio Trujillo, Was Born On New Year’s Eve Of 2021. While The Sister, Aylin Yolanda Trujillo, Arrived 15 Mins Later, At Exactly Midnight On Jan. 1st, 2022. The Probability Of This Happening Is Said To Be 1 In 2 Million.

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Sesame Street, The 52-Year-Old Show, Has Added The First Asian American Muppet To Its Show. The Muppet, Called Ji-Young, A 7-Year-Old Korean American Who Loves Playing The Electric Guitar And Skateboarding, Will Usher In Rock Music, Asian Culture And Talk About Racism, Given The Surge In Racism And Violence Targeting Asians And Asian Americans.

The Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse In This Century And In ~580 Years Will Occur For 3 Hrs And 28 Mins, Begining Late Thursday Night To Early Friday (18th-19th, Nov. 2021) Across The USA. And Spectators Do Not Need Special Glasses To View It. A Partial Lunar Eclipse Occurs When The Sun, Earth, And Moon Are In An Almost Straight Line.

WHO Has Approved The World’s First Malaria Vaccine. The RTS,S Vaccine, From GlaxoSmithKline, Is Also The First Ever Approved For Use Against A Parasitic Disease In Humans. The Vaccine Was Approved Based On Its Positive Results In Ghana, Kenya, And Malawi, As It Was Found To Reduce Malaria Cases By 40% And Hospitalizations By Nearly A Third.

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MIT Researchers Have Developed A Robot, Called RFusion, Which Can Find Lost Items, In Addition To Other Futuristic Industrial Applications. The Robot, Integrated With Camera, Antenna, Robotic Arm, And AI Can Precisely Locate Lost Objects From The RF Signals, From The Robot’s Antenna, Which Are Reflected Off RFID Tags Originally Stuck To The Objects.

A Dutch Company MX3D Premièred The World’s First 3-D Printed Steel Bridge, ~40 Ft Long, For Pedestrians And Cyclists. A Twin Digital Model Of The Bridge Was Built, Based On Data From Over A Dozen Sensors On The Bridge, To Help Understand Long-Term Behaviour Of Printed Metal Structures In Terms Of, E.g., Aesthetics, And Efficiency/Highly Optimised Design.

Justin Chukwudi Olewuezi Has Become The First Nigerian To Graduate From A 133-Year-Old Russian University, The Siberian State Medical University In Tomsk. And He Is Also The First Nigerian At The University Because, According To Him, Most Nigerians Prefer The Western Part Of Russia. This Shows You Can Achieve Your Goal Wherever You Go.

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MIT Engineers May Have Discovered A New Method Of Generating Electricity. The Method Works Via The Interaction Of Carbon With Its Surrounding Fluid, An Organic Solvent, Which Draws Electrons Out Of Carbon Particles, Thereby Generating Electricity. The Electricity Is Said To Be Sufficient For Chemical Reactions Or To Power Nanoscale Robots.

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A Homeless Man, Tim Shea, Age 70, Has Become The First Person Ever To Live In A 3-D Printed House Built By The Company, Icon. The 3-D, 400 Sq Ft, Printed House Is One Of The Many Houses Built In The Community First! Village, Near Austin, Texas. The Houses Are Said To Be Built With Materials More Resilient To Natural Disasters.

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A Study, In A First Of Its Kind, Is Indicating That Conotoxins, From Venomous Cone Snail, Has Potential For Developing Novel Anti-Adhesion Treatment For Severe Malaria Like P. Falciparum. Conotoxins Could Disrupt Protein-Protein And Protein-Polysaccharide Interactions That Directly Contribute To Malaria, And Possibly To AIDS And COVID-19.

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Virginia, A State That Has Executed More People Than Any US State, Has Voted To Abolish The Death Penalty. And Establish A Maximum Punishment Of life In Prison Without Parole. But A Judge May Suspend Part Of The Sentence. The Bill, When Signed By Gov. Ralph Northam, Will Make Virginia The First Southern State To Abolish The Death Penalty.

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