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Lewis Howard Latimer Over 2,200 years ago the Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes (c287 BC – c212 BC) was said to have been taking a bath when he noticed that when he got in the level of the water rose and that therefore the amount of water displaced was equal to the volume of his body. . . . → Read More: EUREKA! Thank you for the many invitations to attend school and college events that the YKL has received over the last few weeks. As you can see on Page 4 we dispatched YKL reporters to several schools to report on ‘World Environmental Day’. Do keep us informed of what’s happening where you are: news . . . → Read More: WHO? WHAT? WHEN? WHERE? WHY? 
Football is a game loved by most people in Kenya and the most passionate part of the game lies in the nature of rivalries. Most Kenyan football lovers follow European leagues especially the English Premier League and La Liga, with Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Barcelona and Real Madrid having a large number of followers. Recently thanks . . . → Read More: Whose side are you on?…The great footballing rivalries 
By Winnie Kabintie Since everyone comes in different body shapes and sizes, we all need to learn what to wear and what to avoid in order to best flatter our body shape.  MOVIE REVIEW HANGOVER PART II Looking to follow the massive success of the first movie, The Hangover (2009), it’s no surprise that The Hangover Par t II came so quickly. The first Hangover film was filled with outrageous humour. I must admit, the sequel does have its moments though it also lef t me wanting more from the . . . → Read More: September, 2011 Movie & Music Reviews  LYRICS ALLEY and MINARET by Leila Aboulela It has often been said that if you are going to write then write about something you know. In her fourth novel, Lyrics Alley, Leila Aboulela has certainly followed this maxim for it is a story that is unquestionably based on her family’s experiences and her own background. Leila Aboulela was . . . → Read More: Lyrics Alley, Minaret, In my dreams I Dance  by F. Scott Fitzgerald Some novels define the age in which they were written. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is such a novel from the author who coined the term the ‘Jazz Age’. Set in the ‘roaring twenties’, the decade of rapid economic growth and for some, frivolous excess and pleasure seeking that followed the First World . . . → Read More: The Great Gatsby  IT’S IN THE NEWS – your guide to the latest in new technology , gadgets and gizmos, by Samuel Wekesa In the display world, we’ve had CRT screens first black and white then colour, and now we have high resolution LCD displays offering almost photo-realistic visualization. So what’s the next cutting edge technology? In order to bring . . . → Read More: Getting Closer to reality  At the moment Fujifilm 3D W3 is the master of 3D stills cameras, as it’s the first dedicated, mass produced 3D camera mimicking what we see with our eyes and a 3D screen that doesn’t require special glasses. The two lenses mean it’s the most convenient camera that can take a 3D snap in one go, . . . → Read More: Fujifilm Finepix Real 3D W3  This is the one game console that received much hype during its release mostly because of its 3D capabilities. It came with promises of revolutionizing portable gaming through glass-free 3D experience. The 3DS has got two screens, the touch screen at the bottom and the 3D screen at the top. The stereoscopic 3D display of the . . . → Read More: Nintendo 3DS 
Interviewed by Winnie Kabintie What are the benefits of winning the title Miss World Kenya? They are in plenty. Let me first begin by saying, when you are crowned annually ok that means the person represents the country at the Miss World competition and normally they are held in different places. My time it was in . . . → Read More: NATASHA METTO, Former Miss World Kenya  Few people reading this were around in 1981, I wasn’t, but we know the sound of and the iconic image that is Jamaican-born Nesta Robert “Bob” Marley, once described as “the Third World’s first pop superstar”, the greatest reggae musician of all time, who died 30 years ago last month. A “superstar” yes, but of . . . → Read More: ‘Tuff Gong’ 30 years on – Bob Marley Reggae King  The theme of this year’s World Environmental Day, which was celebrated on the 5th of June 2011, was ‘Forest: Nature at our service’ and focused on the conservation and expansion of the forest, a major source of our livelihood. 1.6 billion people worldwide depend on forests for their living and forests play a key role in climate . . . → Read More: FOREST: Nature at our service, Celebrating our Environment  Martin Minns, YKL’s Managing Editor, gives an outsider’s view as to why Kenyans should take pride in their country. Mt. Kenya Many books about life in Africa take such a negative view of the continent. They always seem to be about violence, drudgery, poverty and abuse. The YKL editorial team was also a bit taken aback by . . . → Read More: Kenyans’ reasons to be cheerful, 1, 2, 3…  Many are times we go and just fix ourselves in front of others in queues in the canteen, dining hall or water taps, yet we know very well that what we are doing is wrong. Do you know that this small act is one of the ways corruption is being displayed in schools and passed on . . . → Read More: Corruption starts from within  The immense characteristic beauty and wealth in terms of natural resources that fills our country Kenya, proudly gives us, as the inhabitants, distinction from the land beyond. The presence of natural resources within Kenya’s borders marked our country a potential, promising and profitable target for colonialism. The struggle for independence in Kenya (like in all other . . . → Read More: Be the Change you Desire |
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