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hloé Kardashian  is already looking forward to hitting the gym again. Although the 33-year-old, who’s expecting her first child —  a daughter  — with boyfriend  Tristan Thompson , kept up her  impressive workouts throughout most of her pregnancy, as she’s gotten closer and closer to her due date, the reality star has had to limit her exercise to activities like  walking on a treadmill . “Random thoughts but I can NOT WAIT to f— up the gym when it’s time lol,” Kardashian announced on Friday night. “ BEAST MODE is dying to return !!” Although the 33-year-old admitted that returning to the gym post-pregnancy “won’t be easy,” she revealed she was “excited for the challenge.” Want all the latest pregnancy and birth announcements, plus celebrity mom blogs?  Click here to get those and more in the PEOPLE Babies newsletter Khloé Kardashian RELATED: Pregnant Khloé Kardashian Does Goat Yoga with Kevin Hart: 'Naaaaamaste' The  Keeping Up With the Kardas...

Former Disney Channel and  Step Up  actress  Alyson Stoner  shared her struggle to embrace her sexuality in a powerful and moving essay about how she fell in love with a woman for the first time in her life. The actress, 24, who has appeared in films such as  Cheaper by the Dozen  and on Disney shows like  The Suite Life of Zack and Cody , wrote about her, at times, tough journey for  Teen Vogue  in an essay published on Friday. In the essay, the star does not label her sexuality but instead said she now realizes she is attracted to men, women and those who do not define themselves in those terms. Stoner described in detail about how  she realized she was not attracted to just men after she became "mesmerized and intimidated"  when she attended a dance workshop and met her female instructor. "After I dizzied myself from doing knee spins, she walked toward me to correct my form," she wrote. "My heart raced wildly and m...

Thousands of mourners lined the streets of Cambridge, England, on Saturday for the funeral of  Stephen Hawking . The world-renowned physicist, who had motor neurone disease,  died on March 14 at the age of 76 . His funeral was held at Great St. Mary's Church — steps from Gonville and Caius College in the University of Cambridge, where he spent 52 years as a research fellow and lecturer. Family and friends attended the service, including actor  Eddie Redmayne . The 36-year-old actor has a special connection to Hawking, having won  the Best Actor Academy Award  for his turn playing him in the 2014 movie  The Theory of Everything.  Redmayne was also one of the first people to mourn Hawking after his death, telling PEOPLE in a statement: "We have lost a truly beautiful mind, an astonishing scientist and the funniest man I have ever had the pleasure to meet. My love and thoughts are with his extraordinary family.” Eddy Redmayne at Stephen Hawking's fun...

The 7th International Conference On Infrastructure Development In Africa (ICIDA) Ay 3 which happens to be the final day of the conference is life here at Lagos State Polytechnic with so many guest speakers here to tackle the theme: "The Complexity Of Infrastructure System: What are we Fixing?" Topics are been discussed but a particular topic been tackled is that of "Infrastructure Development and Public Private Partnership In Nigeria: Lessons From Current Practice. Is PPP working or failing in Nigeria, even though it has succeeded in so many other countries, the speaker (Mr Awuzie Bankole) has cleared out so many questions been asked but yet people still disagree on the idea of PPP, with the believe that a failed or failing state cannot have a successful PPP. What is your own view on PPP...

J aelynn Willey , the  Maryland high school student who was shot in the head on Tuesday , will be taken off of life support after her family told reporters she was "brain dead." Her mother,  Melissa Willey, told reporters on Thursday that her 16-year-old had "no life left in her" after she was shot in the hallway of Great Mills High School in southern Maryland, according to  The Baltimore Sun . Melissa was holding an infant while surrounded by her family members. "My daughter was hurt by a boy who shot her in the head and took everything from our lives," Melissa said. "It will be different forever." Melissa described her daughter as being involved in school activities such as the swim team and being the second oldest of nine children. She thanked the nursing staff at the high school, as well as the doctors and nurses who cared for her daughter the University of Maryland Prince George’s Hospital Center. Jaelynn Willey will be taken off of life sup...

Sometimes we find ourselves in situations that makes all seem like it can't work again or make life seem so stagnant to us, well well, it pains so much and does make us to ask so many odd questions of ourselves. Don't give up, don't let go, remember "Spero Spera" as Long as there is life there is hope... It's taking too long for you to achieve your purpose in life doesn't mean you wouldn't achieve it, you will definitely get there and smile at last. Like an adage in my land says "The bigger your obstacles in life, the bigger your success". As long as you don't give up, because giving up isn't an option at all. Strive hard and keep on pushing forward.  Morning and have the most beautiful day.

Have I said how much I LOVE SCI-HUB? Not this month so let me say it again: I LOVE SCI-HUB!! If you don't know what Sci-Hub is, and you are interested in access to knowledge/science, then it's time you learned. SciHub is a service started by Kazakhstani graduate student, computer programmer and open-science/knowledge advocate Alexandra Elbakyan . Remember Aaron Swartz? Well, he died as a result of his efforts to free up knowledge and scientific research. In many ways we can think of Elbakyan as having picked up the reins of this fight for open/free knowledge after we lost Aaron. The short version of what SciHub is all about, is that it is an online database of somewhere around 70%-80% of the published science/research which is usually locked behind a paywall. Ironically (and unethically), in many cases this science/research LOCKED BEHIND a PAYWALL is often PUBLICLY FUNDED RESEARCH. But major publishers (with Elsevier being the most evil ) have effectively "reduce...