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Jan 21, 20224 min read
Explainer Series #1: Capitalism
The emergence of life on planet Earth took place over 3.5 billion years ago and will have to go down as one of the most fascinating...
Jan 16, 20225 min read
#12 What is Putin Up To?
IT’S PANIC STATIONS! President Vladimir Putin is accumulating hordes of Russian soldiers around the Russia-Ukraine border. Ukrainians,...
Jan 9, 20228 min read
#11 Drunk Bees
I was listening back to work Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington did for XFM before podcasts were cool in 2003. It was a...
Jan 2, 20224 min read
#10 Desmond Tutu’s Legacy
During the week, I bumped into a friend that I hadn’t seen since high school. We exchanged niceties and the conversation drifted towards...
Dec 26, 20215 min read
#9 Goodbye 2021
We have lived through all 12 months of 2021 and I still feel like I never made it out of 2019. Social distancing is supposedly the new...
Dec 19, 20217 min read
#8 Indian CEOs
Leena Nair has been appointed as Chanel’s new global CEO. She joins a growing list of Indian CEOs at huge multinationals. Google also...
Dec 17, 20213 min read
Rate-Limiting Step
Nothing is as exciting as an encounter with a novel mind blowing idea. I had one such encounter with a concept in Chemistry called the...
Dec 5, 20215 min read
#7 Is December Cancelled?
The world has been struggling to shake the flu for almost 2 years. This bug keeps evolving. We are whizzing through the Greek alphabet...
Nov 28, 20216 min read
#6 LeBron James Gets Tossed
LeBron James, fondly known as the king to fan boys, back handed Isaiah Stewart during an LA Lakers x Detroit Pistons ball game on Sunday...
Nov 21, 20215 min read
#5 Why is Petrol So Expensive?
States approach their respective national fuel systems in different ways. All countries pay the same price for oil in international...
Nov 14, 20214 min read
#4 The Rich Get Richer
2021 is proving to be another good year for the wealthy. Most listed companies outperformed earnings forecasts in the third quarter....
Nov 13, 20213 min read
Are You an Impostor?
Charles Darwin’s legacy, Survival of The Fittest, is perhaps the most recognisable maxim of Science. It’s a pithy statement that captures...
Nov 7, 20219 min read
#3 Holiday Season
It’s November, which means the year is truly over. The holiday season is underway, unless you’re still writing your exams, in which case,...
Oct 31, 20215 min read
#2 I Heard You the First Time
I have been in trouble with one of my friends. He is the type that makes recommendations on something for you to watch, maybe a series,...
Oct 30, 20214 min read
Show Your Work!
One of the best things that happened to me this year was stumbling upon a Youtube video by a Dr. Ali Abidaal, with the clickbaity title,...
Oct 25, 20212 min read
A Week to Forget for Alec Baldwin
It’s a weird one to have to start with here this week. I tried to look away. Believe me, I did - I just couldn’t. On Friday last week I...
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