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[1] Kurunmi (Three Crowns) by Ola Rotimi Genre: Historical Play Kurunmi is a historical war play staged sometimes in the 19thcentury. Aare Kurunmi, the protagonist, occupies the position of war-general-cum-defense-minister of the disintegrating Oyo empire of the West Africa. The author (knowingly or unknowingly) explores the skin-in-the-game philosophy, where leaders lead with their skin in the game. Read More
One: Black Professors and Molecular Genetics We do know for a fact that if you are born into a particular race today, at certain places in the world, or even certain places in an extremely tiny country, your chances of success can change dramatically. Given that no one chooses where to be born, I believe, Read More
One: The 2-ways of knowing. Friends permit me to start with Hume’s fork [1]. He pontificated that there are two ways of knowing (justified propositions), 1) ‘matters of facts’, and 2) the ‘relations of ideas’. In the latter, he means logic, mathematics, proof and everything in between – all bachelors are unmarried, that kind of Read More
One: Satan is Not Ugly Let’s be frank, forget about whatever you think, Satan is not ugly. Satan is a very good-looking man (or woman, if you like). In the Yoruba pantheon in West Africa, one of the gods that is widely believed to be analogous to satan is called Eshu (this is not quite Read More
One: Mr. J I learnt of a story, told to me by a friend, he said he had asked a scientist in his lab – whom we shall call Mr. J. for now – if he believes in anything supernatural or supranatural for that matter. His response was something like I am too smart to Read More
Friends, over the next months, I will be writing a blog series titled ‘Philosophical Morsels’. As the name hints, it’s going to be series of philosophical essays where I will hop around philosophy in it’s two main conceptions. 1) philosophy as a subject matter i.e. what we know that we know, how we know what Read More
Over the summer, I visited Seattle in Washington State to present the progress of one of my doctorate research projects at the 14th Annual Conference of the Metabolomics Society. After the conference, with the great help of two adventurous friends, we dropped by the famous Mount Rainier. The Journey Begins… It was my first-time Read More
A (Short) Productivity Treatise Free Time is De-Motivating – How to Stretch Your sp – Emails are Not Good For Your Health I love to work, and I do a lot of things, so it is only rational that I spend a huge chuck of my time to think about how best to work – Read More
Subtitle: Judging What We Do Not Know This Low-Carb Thingy, My Keto Flu – 9/11 Averted by a US Politician – Nigeria 0 Croatia 2 – Barcelona’s Rakitic and Madrid’s Modric This Low-Carb Thingy, My Keto Flu Last week, I found myself in pains, just enough to make me feel very, very uncomfortable. It came Read More
The books I am reading (and going to read) this summer, covers a large swath of fields – anthropology, mathematics, biology, philosophy, religion, fantasy fiction, and machine learning. I am knee-deep into many of them, and they are all great so far. You might just like them too. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond Read More