By: Rebekah Iliff
Entrepreneurship is a hot topic these days. Countless articles and books have been written about it, entire university curricula have been built upon its precepts and success stories touting billionaires who went from “zero to hero” infiltrate our newsfeeds and status updates.
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid, DBE, RA (October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-born British architect. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004.[1] She received the UK’s most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture, and in 2015 she became the first woman to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects Born in Baghdad Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid commenced her college studies at the American University in Beirut, in the field of mathematics. She moved to London in 1972 to study architecture at the Architectural Association and upon graduation in 1977, she joined the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). She also taught at the Architectural Association (AA) with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis. She began her own…
Lumps have perceived as the first signs of breast cancer over time however, medically, not all lumps give rise to the deadly cancer disease. How then can one ascertain which lump will carry the disease? Medical practitioners have urged women to constantly perform self-examination or visit a doctor. Cancer occurs when some of the body’s cells behave abnormally — changing, growing and reproducing more than they should. In breast cancer, this abnormal growth begins in cells in the breast tissue. Breast cancer actually includes a group of cancers that start in different parts of the breasts. Doctors call these various types of cancers different carcinomas. Here is a story of 24 years old Cecilia who ignored a lump which led to breast cancer, but was lucky to have survived: I found a lump in August 2013, but I waited because I’ve had cysts before. I was only 23, so what…
By: Sarah Forbes Orwig
Maria Ramos, in full Maria Da Conceiƈão Das Neves Calha Ramos (born February 22, 1959, Lisbon, Portugal), Portuguese South African economist and businesswoman who served as CEO of the transportation company Transnet (2004–09) and later of the financial group Absa.
Chicken dishes are some of the most universal dishes in the world. People from different regions and tribes cap up their native delicacies with sauced or barbequed chicken. One of the unique variants of chicken is the Piri Piri chicken which we will be discussing today. Two unique recipes will be explored.
Dr Nasrin Hafezparast is co-founder and CTO at Outcome Based Healthcare (OBH). A rare combination of beauty and brains, she is dual trained in both Computer Science and Medicine, both at University College London. As a fully qualified medical doctor, she has experience working as a doctor in A&E, General Practice and Hospital Medicine in London. Nasrin has an entrepreneurial background and skill set. She is a Teaching Fellow and co-leads the healthcare pathway in the MSc Technology Entrepreneurship at UCL. She made the Management’s list of ’35 women under 35′, and spoke at TEDxTehran on ‘Breaking through the disease barrier’. Her interest in technology also led her to co-found Outcomes Based Healthcare (OBH), a London-based medtech start-up, which uses big data to predict and pre-treat health conditions, where she explored the online tech space and continues to manage this successful online B2B venture today. Nasrin is an invaluable combination of technology…
While trying to decide on a topic to discuss in this session, I stumbled upon a discussion on StraightTalkAdvice, A concerned parent had come to the panel to find out what it means, when a teenage girl starts shaving/waxing her pubic hairs. Initially, I found that question quite strange, but after going through the discussion, I got a clearer picture. I remember my mum asking me once, why I wax my legs, Huh? I thought of all the strange questions she had ever asked, that was by far, the most ridiculous; why do I shave my legs? She could clearly see that I had so much hair right from when I hit puberty. Was I supposed to go about looking like a baboon? I thought. Stumbling on this discussion so many years later, I finally get where she’s coming from. So let’s have it; her question – Dear Straight Talk:…
