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By now, China coronavirus has closed down a city 11 million people, spread to  27 countries/ regions, and infected more than 17, 000 people (surpassing SARS). 

It started with something simple – someone buying food for dinner at an outdoor market. And by now it has been declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organization. 

Like SARS, 2019-nCoV is a zoonotic disease that passes from animals to humans. Research indicates that both SARS and the novel coronavirus likely originated in bats and jumped to humans. 

Over the last 50 years, 10 such infectious diseases have jumped from animals to people and so far the coronavirus has the lowest fatality rate. Here’s a comparison between the novel coronavirus and the other major outbreaks over the last 50 years. 

You might think the gap between female and male entrepreneurs has been closing, but the fact is that the gap is still very much there. It’s not surprising that there is such a gap in male & female start-up owners when there is a huge gender pay gap crisis going on. 

Unfortunately, men typically still like to back and invest in male start-ups over female start-ups. This naturally means that there are more men in start-up businesses and at the top, while there are still a limited number of women to even reach the start-up stage, never mind high up women to back women. If men only want to invest in other males, how do women succeed in starting their own business?

It’s not all doom and gloom though, we’ve made great progress in the UK and America. But the figures in the below infographic from Total Processing remind us to keep pushing to close these gender gaps.

A Brief History of the Internet

It took the Internet 50 years to become what it is today.

Can you believe that? Almost half a century.

But, in a way the Internet has advanced humanity far more than any other technology in history. Even the Iron age and Industrial revolution took centuries to become mature enough to develop a civilization. But, the Internet within a span of 50 years has toppled the very routine we used to live by.

Our Internet-connected smartphones are the first things that we reach out to first thing in the morning. We are almost addicted to social media, instant messaging, and on-demand online services. In other words, a life without the Internet is unimaginable.

All the facilities that the Internet is providing us today did not come together. They took their own sweet time to grow and launch. There were specific milestones in the history of the Internet that have shaped the modern digital world.

This infographic from SSL2BUY is an exploration of the history of the Internet. You will be amused to know how fast the Internet technology grew and has become a life-changing force for the entire world. Scroll down the infographic to know the Internet’s fascinating journey.

As we celebrate the World Population Day – which seeks to raise awareness of population issues – this week, the global population is currently estimated to be 7.6 billion.

When the first World Population Day was celebrated on 11th of July in 1990, the global population was no more than 5 billion people. To put it in simpler terms, there has been a 50% growth in the global population over the last 27 years alone!

According to the latest projections of the United Nations, the world’s population growth is expected to grow by more than one billion people, reaching 8.6 billion within the next decade.

Although there’s been a drop in the fertility rates since the 1960s, roughly 83 million – and that is nearly 360,000 births per day – people are added to the global population annually. As of now, Africa has the highest fertility rate at 4.7 births per woman, while Europe has the lowest fertility rate at 1.6 births per woman.

In recent years, Africa has had the fastest growth rate and it will continue to increase, making the continent play a central role in contributing to the global population over the next few decades. Asia will become the second largest contributor to this future growth, adding about 750 million people between 2017 and 2050. These two regions will be followed by Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America and Oceania in shaping the size and the distribution of the global population by 2050.

Asia will become the second largest contributor to this future growth, adding about 750 million people between 2017 and 2050. These two regions will be followed by Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America and Oceania in shaping the size and the distribution of the global population by 2050.

According to UN’s key findings, half of the world’s population growth over the next 30 years will be concentrated in just nine countries; India, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, USA, Uganda, and Indonesia.

While India’s population is expected to overtake that of China and approach 1.66 billion by 2050 (while China’s is expected to remain at 1.44 billion since 2024), the population of Nigeria is expected to surpass that of USA before 2050, thus becoming the world’s third largest country.

Lately, “impeachment process” has become a major topic of conversation. And everybody keeps asking the same question; “How does it really work?”

The Impeachment Process

The U.S. Constitution has allowed the Congress to put certain officials who have been formally charged with “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” on trial and remove them from office if convicted.

First, the House Judiciary Committee brings impeachment charges against a federal official and, carries out a formal investigation into the issue of impeachment.

Based on this inquiry, the House Judiciary Committee then drafts Articles of Impeachment which it sends to the full House stating if the impeachment should be warranted and why. Then the House of Representatives proceeds to vote on each Article of Impeachment, and if any one Article is approved by a simple majority, the president (or the federal official in question) will be impeached.

The president will remain in office awaiting the results of the Senate impeachment trial. With 2/3 supermajority vote, the Senate can convict the president. In case it does, the president will be removed from office (and potentially banned from holding any public office in the future) and the Vice President will take over.

No U.S. president has ever been removed from office before. However, two U.S. presidents (Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998) were successfully impeached by the House of Representatives, although they were eventually acquitted by the Senate.

And as evidence surfaced that President Richard Nixon was involved in a series of wrongdoings such as cover-ups, attempts at suppressing formal investigations, break-ins etc., the House Judiciary Committee commenced an impeachment proceeding against him. Although the House Judiciary Committee approved three Articles of Impeachment against President Nixon, he resigned from his position to avoid being impeached.

Check out the flowchart to understand how the Impeachment Process works.