Pittsburgh police say rapper Wiz Khalifa has been cited for urinating in public. City public safety spokeswoman Sonya Toler says it happened at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday behind a bar called The Flats on Pittsburgh's South Side. He was in town to perform during Pitt's Midnight Madness basketball season kickoff Friday night. The citation is basically a ticket.
The 2015 African Muzik Magazine Awards (AFRIMMA) held last night in Dallas, Texas. For the event, red carpet was hosted by Emma Nyra and the show was hosted by Basketmouth and Kansiime. See the list of winners below. (more…)
The tungsten lightbulb has served well over the century or so since it was introduced, but its days are numbered now with the arrival of LED lighting, which consume a tenth of the power of incandescent bulbs and have a lifespan 30 times longer. Potential uses of LEDs are not limited to illumination: smart lighting products are emerging that can offer various additional features, including linking your laptop or smartphone to the internet. Move over Wi-Fi, Li-Fi is here. Wireless communication with visible light is, in fact, not a new idea. Everyone knows about using smok
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists who discovered treatments for three of the most devastating parasite-borne diseases. Irish-born scientist William C. Campbell and Japanese scientist Satoshi Ōmura were jointly awarded half the prize for their discovery of a therapy to treat infections caused by roundworm parasites. Chinese scientist Youyou Tu received the other half for her discovery of a new therapy for Malaria. Campbell and Ōmura discovered the drug Avermectin, a modified form of which has dramatically reduced cases of
Right now, odds are that one in every four diamonds on sale around the world is ablood diamond - mined in a war zone and sold to finance armed conflict and civil war. And for those wanting to steer clear of such a commodity, it’s becoming nearly impossible to figure out the difference between a clean and a dirty diamond. Which is why the market for lab-made diamonds is slowly but surely growing, offering a cheaper, more environmentally friendly, and ethically sound option that looks just as pretty as its natural counterpart. "To a modern young consumer, if they get
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