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Do Board Games Really Increase your Kid’s Brain Power?

As a kid, I remember playing board games with some of my aunts and beating them silly until no one wanted to play with me; and I don’t mean the kind, where they let you win, No; I mean the kind where they try really hard to beat you but never really do. I was that kid that preferred to sit in with her dad and play a game of scrabble or chess, instead of cycling around the estate with the other kids; Yes! I was that kind of kid. Did I mention I had a perfect score in my quantitative and verbal reasoning at my entrance exams for secondary education? Oh! I’m also really good and fast with calculations.

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Yasmin Helal: Redefining the Future of Egyptian Education

Yasmin Helal is an engineer and a former pro-basketball player, an Amazon, redefining education in Egypt. She was born and raised in Cairo, growing up in a middle-class family and attending a private school, life was a walkthrough for her and didn’t challenge her in the ways she needed to be. Helal was soon bored; and this led to her mum enrolling her for sports activities of swimming and basketball. Though initially reluctant, Helal found herself in basketball; through basketball, she was challenged mentally, physically, and socially; she learned to struggle, to compete, to set goals, to make friends, and to follow through. Being on a team was alien to Helal, but it gave her a sense of belonging and a higher purpose. She played professional basketball for 19 years, during which she served as the captain of Gezira Sporting Club Team and played for the Egyptian National Team in December…

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Lauren Bush Lauren: FEED, Tackling Hunger through Commerce

Lauren Pierce Bush Lauren is a daughter of Neil Bush and Sharon Bush, granddaughter of former President George H. W. Bush and niece of former President George W. Bush. Born in Denver, Colorado on June 25, 1984, Lauren was raised in Houston, Texas; she completed her high school education in Houston Texas, studied fashion design at BEBE and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and graduated from Princeton University in 2006 with a B.A. in Anthropology and a certificate in Photography. She also had a career as a fashion model and designer, before the launch of FEED Projects, a social business launched in 2007 to fight world hunger on behalf of the UN World Food Programme. Bush is Co-Founder of FEED Projects. FEED Projects, and its associated nonprofit, FEED Foundation, define success in terms of meals provided—85 million in seven years, the equivalent of roughly $11 million. Corie…

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Her Name Lives On- Zaha Hadid

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…

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Dr. Nasrin Hafezparast: Tech Entrepreneur proffering innovative health care solutions

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…

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Girl Talk

Does waxing mean sexually active?

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:…

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Kativa Shukla: Tackling food spoilage with FreshPaper innovation

We live in a world that is constantly dealing with the global problem of food spoilage. Over 800 million people on the planet go hungry due to shortage of food supply. Kativa Shukla is the CEO of Fenugreen and inventor of FreshPaper, a simple remedy to food spoilage. Research shows that farmers around the world are harvesting enough food to feed the planet but over 25% of the food harvested is lost to food spoilage, contributing to the shortage of global food supply. Over a billion people around the world still live without refrigeration, further contributing to the global problem of food spoilage. Kativa Shukla started her experiment after a visit to her grandmother in India; having been warned by her mum to avoid drinking tap water on her visit, her grandmother helped her stave off stomach upset on the visit with some homemade herbal mixtures which included fenugreek.…

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