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: 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
I don’t know them. I just stumbled on them in the bar. I don’t know their names too, but they looked very African, west African to be precise, so I gave them two names akin to their looks. Orunmila and Omode. Orunmila is the elderly. Very elderly. He had scanty grey hairs on his head, Read More
Don’t Follow Your Passion – Technology is Amoral – We Are All Bags of Biases – A Mexican and a 20-year Old Philosopher – Every Race Lies and Cheat – And Loads of Fun I spent this weekend at the Georgia International Leadership Conference (GILC 2018) in Rock Eagle, Eatonton, Georgia. I had wanted to Read More
There is a popular saying amongst the people of the Yoruba tribe in West Africa, it goes thus: omo to ba ni ki iyare masu, ounna ko ni sun (The child that has said his mother will not sleep, shall also not sleep). This proverb spears right through the logic of paying prices – the Read More
(The Deposition by Raphael (1507)) I promised to write the essay version of the sermon I delivered at church two Sundays ago, here it is: The parable of the prodigal son: a son asked his father for his share of his property, he grabbed it, travelled far way, and squandered it as if tomorrow was Read More
The last time I delivered a sermon, I was about nine, if my memory serves me right. Though, I have had (and still have) the opportunity to teach kids in church over the years. On Sunday, January 28 in the Year of Our Lord 2018, I delivered a sermon at The Redeemed Christian Church of Read More
The Genesis of Inequality – The Failed Promises of Food Production – The Superbugs – The Advent of Social Media – Progress has a Weak Point. The Genesis of Inequality About 15,000 years ago Homo sapiens were hunters and gatherers. But somethings began to change around 9500-8500 BC – we started to domesticate plants and Read More