Life

Decision making, Life

Good schools: What are we paying for?

Every parent wants the best for their children. That’s why we insist that we want to give them a “good foundation” by taking them to…

Decision making, Life

Drowning and Advice

Sometime back, I was trying to show off at a swimming pool. I had barely known how to float on water but my hubris couldn’t…

Life

Broccoli, Artificial Selection and Culture

Apparently broccoli is a man-made plant. Legend has it that an Italian family by the name Broccoli artificially selected broccoli from the wild cabbage. The flowers…

Decision making, Life

The chicken or the egg?

What came first, the chicken or the egg? This is a common question that has elicited interesting debate for centuries. I think the answer is…

Decision making, Education, Life

Riding a bike

I’m a bit embarrassed to admit that I just learnt to ride a bike a few weeks ago. A whole mubaba has been walking around…

Decision making, Life, Politics

White Elephants

A white elephant is a rare type of elephant that is considered sacred and prestigious in Thailand and other south-east Asian countries. It was often…

Decision making, Life, Politics

Lies, Bullshit and the Truth

In his seminal essay On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt seeks to show the difference between lies and bullshit. He argues that lying requires subversion of…

Decision making, Life

Language games

There is a difference between kicking a stone and kicking a sleeping dog. With your scientific prowess, through calculation of velocity, weight and newton’s law…

Decision making, Life

Pandora’s box

Long time ago when the gods used to eat, have sex and quarrel with each other, there lived Zeus and Prometheus. Zeus, the king of…

Decision making, Life

The Walk of Shame

When we were in campus, some clever chap, lets call him Willie, used to convince someone’s daughter to spend the night at his room at…