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MONDAY 13TH MAY, 2019-PHONE SECURITY FOR YOUR GOOD HEALTH

Life Stories This is Why You Should Never Call an Unknown Number Back May 06, 2019 | David Ralph Retuya Share on Facebook Adam Levin advises everyone to take caution when calling back an unknown number. He is the founder of CyberScout and author of Swiped: How To Protect Yourself in a World of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves. He adds that scammers are skilled in faking numbers for caller ID purposes. These people will purposely use area codes that appear similar to yours to gain your trust. Advertisement Advertisement Levin also says that these scammers bank on the fact that people are curious. So when they see a number that comes from the same hometown as you, you’d probably think it’s from someone you know. Eva Velazquez, the CEO, and president of the Identity Theft Resource Center says that answering a phone call or call...

HOW ALCHOL AFFECT US

Life Stories How Alcohol Can Affect Your Memory May 07, 2019 | Rouella Midel-Bagiscan Share on Facebook Alcohol has been known to influence our mind and memory. Can we really forget something that has happened when we are under the influence of alcohol? How does it alter our brain? Alcohol can actually alter our memory in surprising ways. How Memory Works Our memory works on three different layers: encoding, retrieval, and storage. Encoding is when we give our attention to something, take note of it, and recover it from storage after. So when we’re distracted or we don’t pay attention, we won’t possibly record it. Advertisement Advertisement Encoding: Not Always So Easy Drinking interferes with how our brains “encode.” Our motor function becomes slow and we feel more relaxed, social, impulsive, and emotional. Basically, our ge...

EMOTIONAL POEM GOES VIRAL

Boy’s Emotional Poem Goes Viral and Inspires People Across the Globe ADAPTED :May 09, 2019 | Gene Paul Lim Share on Facebook An Autistic boy in New York succeeded in leaving a lasting mark in the world after he was requested by his teacher along with his classmates to make a poem involving their personal lives. The boy examined his innermost persona and articulated his genuine feelings in his poem. Today, his reflections are influencing countless other people across the world. Homework Assignment The ten year old boy, Benjamin Giroux and his fellow students in class were assigned with a unique homework to create a poem. But they weren’t just told to write just any kind of poem, however. They were instructed to write a poem wherein, after a sentence or two, the phrase “I am”, would commence as a means to portray how they felt regarding themselves. Benjamin wasn’t normally good at...

WEDNESDAY HEALTH WISDOM

The Wisdom Korner 1. Polar bears hunt differently. They usually charge into a group of Walruses and only eat the ones that were wounded or crushed during the panic to escape. Polar bears rarely put up a direct attack. 2. The word ‘Samsung’ actually means ‘three stars’ in Korean language. This word was chosen by the founder because he wanted his products to be the best and most powerful in the world. 3. A report gathered by different researchers have made it known that flossing your teeth can enhance your memory. Doing this will help you prevent gum disease and stiff blood vessels which can cause memory problems 4.  Pitbulls are outstanding dogs. It ranks high among the least aggressive an...