I read some great books in 2016 and Antifragile by Nassim Taleb comes out first. He discussed the philosophical idea of things that gain from disorder. Nassim makes the idea easy to grab by explaining that we do not have a word for the exact opposite of fragile – most people say robust, but Read More
Around 398AD, the now modern day Madagascar found herself in a state of economic and moral quagmire – the prices of the commodity skyrocketed and the kingdom was practically bankrupt, crime rates quadrupled within a year, Parents sell children for money (while some children sold parents for food), and for the folks who can’t – Read More
Let’s start with a very hypothetical stereotype: Cosmologists make bad spouses. In this world, your mum (and possibly grandma, probably before she died) will warn you from say, age 7, to never date anyone who aspires to be a cosmologist, and she would probably tell you specifically that marrying one should be restricted completely to Read More
About 3 years ago during my Youth Service in Nigeria (an obligatory service to the Nigerian government immediately after college education); I met this young man who boasted effortlessly (and described in clear details) on how he was going wreak havoc if he happen to find himself in any political office in the future. I Read More
A Warm Conversation with my Physician I spent my week in a slight state of discomfort with some fairly intractable symptoms, so I decided to stop by my physician. I started off with the checkups: oxygen level, blood pressure, stuffs like that and soon my physician stepped in. We had a pretty short (and warm) Read More
I recently finished the fictional book – Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke. It’s a little powerful book propounding on the ethos (in my opinion) every single person on earth should live by. Originally written in 1483, as a letter, by Sir Thomas Lemuel Hawke of Cornwall to his children before his demise at Read More
My Top Neural Dances – Codex purpureus Rossanensis and the Good Samaritan – Tonight, it’s either Quantum Mechanics or Soccer – And, Finally, here is why you should support the 5bucksforcataract Campaign For a couple of year now, there has been 2 major ideas dancing all over my brain cells. I have thought about them Read More
[WebLink For Donation] Transcripts: 285 million people in the world are visually impaired: of this 285 million people, 39 million are blind and 246 million have severe vision impairment. Now, of the 39 million people that are completely blind, approximately 20 million are blind as a result of cataract – a disease state that results Read More
I will start with a very, very weird manifestation of envy: we strangely (but innately) prefer to have less rather than more, WHEN the *more* is less than our neighbors’ BUT the *less* is more than our neighbors’. Friends, the inverse rarely holds. Carefully consider these two scenarios: Scenario 1: you worth $865,080, while your Read More
Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher – Wole Soyinka, and the fumes of Nigeria petroleum – The best way to waste your time (assuming you want to) I am not a poem-person (most likely to my disadvantage), but I somehow stumbled on the 1861 Charles Baudelaire’s ‘L’Albatros’ several years ago. I can’t remember understanding Read More