Kailash Babu was 18 when a photo on his brother’s Facebook timeline left a profound imprint on him. The image featured a giraffe sculpture that had been carved out of the tip of a pencil by Brazilian artist Dalton Ghetti. Barely a few millimetres in diameter, its detailing was exquisite. “That was when I decided: this is what I want to do,” he said.

Over the last six years, the 24-year-old from Tiruvallur in Tamil Nadu has carved more than 200 miniature sculptures on pencil lead – some as small as 0.7 mm in diameter. Among them have been sculptures of bookshelves, alphabets, farmers, birds, vehicles, faces, tools, and even a newborn attached to the umbilical cord. Kailash’s carving of a bloodied sanitary napkin – “I want to speak up against such taboos” – was part of an art exhibition in Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai in April.

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A team of scientists from Taiwan is suggesting not all exercise is equal when it comes to those with a genetic propensity for obesity trying to lose weight. The study concluded jogging was better for weight loss than either swimming or cycling in those subjects with a genetic predisposition for obesity.

Read more at New Atlas.

A medical procedure that aims to allow women to delay the menopause for up to 20 years has been launched by IVF specialists in Britain.

Doctors claim the operation could benefit thousands of women who experience serious health problems, such as heart conditions and bone-weakening osteoporosis, that are brought on by the menopause.

Read more at The Guardian.

Events like the recent Capital One breach or the broader Equifax hack in 2017 can leave you feeling vulnerable and helpless -- and rightfully so. It's one thing to have your Facebook or Twitter account compromised, but being the victim of a financial institution getting hacked adds a whole new level of distress.

Our bank accounts hold some of our most personal information such as social security numbers, our credit and debit card numbers, where we live and our financial records.

Read more at Cnet.

Our oldest daughter Danielle was married earlier this summer in Westport, Conn., a beautiful June day marked by celebration, heartfelt toasts and more than a few joyful tears. As the mother of the bride, I worked closely with Danielle and her now-husband Steve to plan the big day. What I hadn’t expected: the process taught me six lessons about getting a job.

That sounds like an odd juxtaposition, no? Let me explain, and then cue you into the lessons which could help you during your next job search.

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Earlier this year Future Females secured a partnership with the UK-SA Tech Hub, to support 50 South African, early-stage female tech entrepreneurs, to transform their ideas into businesses and on the 29th of June the first cohort officially graduated. 

 “I joined this course thinking it would help me develop the digital tools I needed for an app I am going to build but it actually took me in a different and even more exciting direction. It has also been a huge help in further developing my vision of becoming a global academic.” said political analyst, and entrepreneur Asanda Ngoasheng.

Read more at Entrepreneur.

Just days ago, a 16-year-old gamer from Pennsylvania won over $3 million in the first-ever World Cup for the popular video game Fortnite. The individual jackpot was the largest ever in competitive gaming history — even bigger than Tiger Woods $2 million-plus haul for winning the 2019 Masters Tournament.

Fortnite’s explosive popularity underscores the rise of gamers, and their spending power. Worldwide, players are expected to spend over $150 billion on their hobby this year, according to market intelligence firm Newzoo.

Read more at Yahoo Finance.

American homeowners are finding it difficult to pay off their homes, and as a result, they wish they would have saved up more money before signing on the dotted line.

That’s according to a recent survey from Freedom Debt Relief which polled 1,028 U.S. homeowners with at least $10,000 in unsecured debt. (Unsecured debt includes credit card debt and medical bills.)

Read more at CNBC.

July at least equalled, if not surpassed, the previous hottest month recorded in July 2016, according to preliminary data from the World Meteorological Organization and Copernicus Climate Change Service, or C3S.

"We have always lived through hot summers. But this is not the summer of our youth. This is not your grandfather's summer," said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, who announced the data in New York on Thursday. "All of this means that we are on track for the period from 2015 to 2019 to be the five hottest years on record."

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A new federal data analysis drills into the urban-rural divide of America's continually evolving drug crisis, showing varied victim and drug patterns in the two areas but similar trends in rising death rates.

For the study, researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics used cause-of-death data and a deceased person's county of residence to determine that the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose deaths grew significantly in both urban and rural areas from 1999 to 2017.

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