Unusual usage of eggshells

he next time you’re making omelets, don’t toss your shells. Eggshells have nearly as many uses as the eggs themselves. Here are a few ways to get the most from your eggs.

Put them on your face
 To restore youthful glow to your skin, pulverise clean, dried eggshells with a mortar and pestle. Mix the powder with some egg white and spread on your skin. Allow the mixture to dry before washing it off.

Clear up your skin
 Drop an eggshell into a small container of apple cider vinegar and let it soak for a couple of days. Dab the mixture on minor skin irritations or on itchy skin.

Sweeten your coffee
  Add some crushed eggshells to ground coffee before brewing it to make it taste less bitter.

Clean your house with them
  Ground eggshells make a wonderful (and non toxic!) abrasive for those tough-to-clean pots, pans, and thermoses. Mix them with a little soapy water for a powerful clean.

Unclog your drains
  Keep a few ground eggshells in your kitchen sink strainer. They trap additional solids and when they slowly break down, they will help to naturally clean your pipes on their way out.

Fertilise your garden
 Eggshells are rich in calcium and other minerals that help your garden thrive. Crush eggshells into tiny pieces and use them as compost.

Fortify your pet
 Dry eggshells in a 250-degree over for 30 minutes. Then put them in a plastic zipper bag, seal it, and crush the shells with a rolling pin until they are a fine powder. Put this into your dog’s food as a great calcium supplement to help its bones and teeth.

Scare away slugs
  Crush eggshells and scatter them around your vegetables and flowers to fend off hungry herbivores such as slugs, snails, and cutworms, without using toxic pesticides. The smell of eggs will also deter deer.

The Petroleum Industry

Jobs in the petroleum industry are fun and exciting because they provide people with a chance to "do geology" in a high-technology, high-data environment that isn't found in most other geoscience professional jobs. Even better, many petroleum companies provide generous salary and benefits packages that include annual bonuses, flexible work schedules and company-sponsored training. Petroleum geoscientists gather, process, and analyze seismic data and well data in order to locate drillsites for their companies. During a typical career, people learn to locate three different types of drillsites: exploration drillsites (big scale/high risk), field-development drillsites (medium scale/medium risk) and producing-field drillsites (small scale/lowest risk). Most petroleum industry jobs are based in major cities like Houston and Denver and require some domestic and foreign travel as part of the job assignment.

TB, malaria, HIV: Deadlysome three

Three diseases seem to be holding developing countries like ours by the jugular. Two of these diseases — HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis — are communicable, while one — malaria — isn’t.

While they don’t necessarily lead to death when managed effectively, sometimes, they do lead to morbidity — a state of unwholesome feelings.

Tuberculosis is an air-borne infectious disease, which, though preventable and curable, still afflicts millions of people globally, including Nigeria.

According to a World Health Organisation factsheet, in 2011 alone, 8.7 million people fell ill with TB, including 1.1 million cases among people living with HIV.

That same year, 1.4 million people died from TB, including 430,000 among people who were HIV-positive.

Experts say this infection is one of the top killers of women worldwide, as a whopping half a million women died from TB in 2011 alone.

Worse still, there were an estimated 310,000 cases of multidrug-resistant TB among notified TB patients with pulmonary TB.

Malaria seems to be present with us perpetually, and that is one reason why many take to self-medication whenever they are down with what they self-diagnose as a bout of malaria.

Experts warn that though malaria may be endemic in the country, it is one deadly disease that should not be trifled with. The WHO says if not treated, malaria can quickly become life-threatening by disrupting the blood supply to vital organs.

Many people are not aware of the fact that malaria can cause: