A different prespective to Life

It might be the circles I am moving in or the people that I associate with, a lot of people I come across actually believe that things are getting worst and worst. They seem to have an apocalyptic image and destruction of the world. This might be so, as regards some aspect of human endeavour, but it is no longer the case as regards others. In health, disease, food, time, education, wars, human longevity, human rights, etc. in almost every area, a man most specifically humanity has been improving. The notion we have that things are getting worse does not make sense when judged on the figures. The world population has been increasing, and the simple reason why is that fewer people are dying from the disease, and more people are surviving. Fewer as by proportion of, people live in poverty and extreme poverty. This a book that is very positive and will change your outlook in life. That shows with figures, statistics, graphs, and reason, whatever the "Nay Sayers" might s...

Went to a debate yesterday at the Tea House Debating club. Due to the recent political atmosphere in the UK, they decided to have an election debate special. All of the speakers were members of the club and as the tradition, were given the party that they might not agree with. I totally agree with the format and that way of doing things, debating is healthy and should be encouraged in any modern society as it enables people to see things from another perspective and empathise with alternative views. However, the Liberal Democrats, Labour, Green, Brexit, Conservative, and "No Party" i.e. "None of the above", were all represented. They were given 3 minutes to tell us why we should vote for them and another 3 minutes criticising the other parties. After which, there was a vote and two of the six parties were eliminated. During the debate, 2 things became obviously clear or apparent. That the speakers who were able to engage the audience and charismatic, whate...

The marathon officially is about 42.195 kilometres (approximately 26 miles 385 yards) and it was said to have been started according to legend, by a   Greek soldier named  Pheidippides , who was a courier runner messenger from the  Battle of Marathon  to Athens (490 BC), who reported the victory. He was said to have died immediately after delivering the message of victory over the Persians. Unfortunately,  Pheidippides  time was not recorded, t he winner of the  first modern Olympic marathon , on 10 April 1896 (a male-only race), was Spyridon Louis, from Greece, in 2 hours 58 minutes and 50 seconds (2:58:50:0). In 2018 at Berlin, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge took the official record at last year's race, was 2:01:39:0. Hence, those in the know knew that it was only a matter of time when someone ran below 2 hours time mark. The battle to beat the 2-hour marathon is like another similar battle of speed, determination and forbearance, some years ago, the race...

Up till the 18th century, most of sub-Saharan Africa was unexplored apart from the coastal regions. The rest of the world was had been colonized and conquered, the Americas, Asia, Oceania, etc. British, France, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Belgium ships had been crating away their riches. Africans had the Atlantic slave trade which crated away from millions of them and wreaked havoc on their civilizations and wiped out entire kingdoms. But this was not done directly by the invaders, Europeans, colonists but by their intermediaries or collaborators who were disenfranchised or enraged minorities to the status quo then, who acted as their active agents and were handsomely paid in arms, alcohol, cotton, and trinkets or by the demise of their perceived enemies. But generally, the African Kingdoms were left on their own and direct contact with Europeans was limited and restricted. The thing that was "protecting" Africans from the direct involvement of Europeans was Malaria, wh...

This is a documentary that involves the US, Israel and Iran. It is about a malicious sophisticated software code called Stuxnet which is a computer worm. A worm, unlike a computer virus which like its named biological equivalent, since a virus requires a cell host to replicate itself. But the computer worm can self replicate and activate itself. The code was well written, with no bugs and it has a zero-day exploit.  Which means it could infect the computer immediately, as day zero is an undisclosed computer-software vulnerability that hackers can exploit to adversely affect computer programs, data, additional computers or a network. It is known as a "zero-day" because a virus or worm usually reported or announced before becoming active, but this is activated immediately.  In Stuxnet, there were several zero days. Those with experience in looking at the code security as the professionals they came to the conclusion that it looks like a code written by a nation-state pro...

Just finished watching a series on Netflix, "When They See Us", consisting of 4 episodes; these were all directed by Ava DuVernay, who also directed  13th  and  Selma .  It was made for Netflix, and it follows the story of five 14 to 16-year-old Harlem teenagers of colour called the " Central Park Five " who were arrested for raping and molesting a 28-year-old white female jogger in New York Central Park in 1989.  The story was built around their lives and what happened on the day of the incident. The fact that the boys were arrested by a biased police force with a white female lead, Ms Linda Fairstein, who was then the sex crimes chief in the Manhattan district attorney's office, and she was determined to get them. She said, "Every young Black male who was in the park last night is a suspect in the rape of that woman."  That throws innocent until proven guilty out the window. The police were biased and out to make an arrest from the very beginning ...

I had the opportunity to attend a Debate yesterday at the Tea House Theatre, not far from Vauxhall Station in South East London. The debate motion was “ This House Believes the Caster Semenya ruling is unfair ”.  The running order was 6.30 pm - 6.45 pm: Introduction to the debate 6.45 pm - 7.45 pm: Public debate and audience Q&A 7.45 pm - 8.00 pm: Break 8.00 pm - 8.45 pm: Showcase debate 8.30 pm - 9.00 pm: Post-debate drinks Being the first time of attending I did manage to find the place easily and the surroundings were excellent. It is a nice pub at the end of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in the centre of London. It was not far from Vauxhall Underground Tube Station. The public debate was done by amateurs and students who were members of the debating club. The issue was well thought out and at the end, I sided with the notion that ruling was unfair. As it seemed they had specifically targeted Ms Caster Semenya . But later when the professional ...