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Malevolent Twitter Rumours Trending Dangerously

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 3:58 P GMT+01

The hoax about Kanye West's death on Twitter that became the highest trending topic needs addressing. Lies should not be accorded the possibility of democratic majority affirmation where many do not check before they Tweet, ReTweet or offer opinions.

Scuttling cancer with chemo

Thursday, 1 October 2009 8:56 P GMT+01

The truth is out, let the treatments begin.

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Thought Picnic: F1 needs serious cleaning up

Friday, 25 September 2009 10:04 A GMT+01

The F1 scandals have come from drivers threatening to tell all or telling all due to situations not going their way, not because anyone has been honest or full of integrity. That is an underlying problem that is not being addressed at all.

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Thought Picnic: AFRICOM another swamp for lethal mosquitoes

Tuesday, 28 July 2009 8:16 P GMT+01

AFRICOM has no combat mission in Africa but is deploying the Human Terrain System using a defence contractor to map out the core of what makes African tick.

Technical tinkerers are the worst

Monday, 20 July 2009 9:58 P GMT+01

Called to help with issues in an old project I find myself chatting to the nemesis of administration, a tinkerer who had buggered up a template and was seeking validation.

Shopping down the wire

Thursday, 9 April 2009 12:04 A GMT+01

Some recent Internet shopping experiences have left me wondering if it is not better to go back to interacting directly with human beings than sitting behind a screen

Thought Picnic: A malaise of inexactitudes

Saturday, 7 March 2009 1:21 P GMT+01

The My Pikin issue is just an extreme manifestation of a malaise we have with not being exact.

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Nigeria: Pfizer reaches settlement

Monday, 2 March 2009 4:02 P GMT+01

Pfizer has reached a settlement in principle with Kano State concerning the flawed drug trial of trovafloxacin in 1996 but this is one of two cases in court.

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A mathematical reflection on Shrove Tuesday

Tuesday, 24 February 2009 4:25 P GMT+01

Just as the mathematicians tackled our financial system with formulae that has left our economies bereft that have now come after our pancakes with a formula for the perfect pancakes.

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Nigeria: Pfizer, we are NOT lab rats

Thursday, 5 February 2009 9:26 P GMT+01

The case Nigerians to the US courts about a faulty Pfizer drug trial in Nigeria has been given leave to continue. I would hope the ethical and moral issues would gain weight over the legal arguments.

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Your mum inadvertently uses your computer

Tuesday, 3 February 2009 9:24 P GMT+01

About keeping your computer clean and keeping yourself out of trouble you cannot easily explain yourself out of.

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Big Fat Arse Sugar Management

Saturday, 3 January 2009 6:52 P GMT+01

Scientists have found out that having a big bottom might just help in preventing diabetes - read on...

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Watching the second hand tick away

Saturday, 20 December 2008 6:39 P GMT+01

Watches for time when a net book needs a bag a long way from Africa where the essence of time defeats every Western purpose for time.

A road runs through it

Monday, 27 October 2008 11:39 A GMT+01

A dual-carriage way would run through my village, cutting it in half but there is no safety in this construction, there would be no pedestrian bridges - I worry.

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Luc Montagnier takes the Nobel Prize for isolating HIV

Monday, 6 October 2008 4:14 P GMT+01

Luc Montagnier can laugh all he wants as he is recognised with a Nobel Prize for the isolation of HIV.

Cancelling Tech-Ed, a considered cut-back

Monday, 6 October 2008 10:13 A GMT+01

Even in the smallest way, I am beginning to see the effects of the financial crises with street lights going off early, banks acquired, conferences cancelled and bins not emptied. There is hope but there would be changes too.

Large Hadron Collider: The Tower of Babel endures

Tuesday, 23 September 2008 8:27 P GMT+01

Am I the only one seeing the parallels between the Tower of Babel of old and the Large Hadron Collider?

Dare to think and change the world - Arthur C. Clarke tribute

Thursday, 20 March 2008 4:02 A GMT+01

Each mind developed on the thoughts of another mind till the reality changed the world forever. A tribute at the death of Sir Arthur C. Clarke

The faucet apothecary

Monday, 10 March 2008 12:41 A GMT+01

One city in the States reveals that there are up to 56 pharmaceuticals and their derivatives in tap water. Traces that would affect no one till you start to think of homoeopathy for which you will need a glass of water to handle your anxiety.

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Blockbuster snake-oil anti-depressant drugs

Wednesday, 27 February 2008 4:14 P GMT+01

The drugs for managing depression might just cause more depression when we realise that we are being given pills that could well be placebos to make us feel better for a huge price.

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YouTube versus Islam - Between discernment and ignorance

Tuesday, 26 February 2008 5:54 A GMT+01

When Pakistan banned access to YouTube to avoid access to content that might be offensive to Islam the blocked global access to the site. I fear for how the protection of religion ridicules religion even more.

Wikileaks - The right to know

Wednesday, 20 February 2008 7:44 P GMT+01

Wikileaks is a site under threat for the reason that it gives succour to the whistleblower to post documents that expose practices/activities that normally would not be revealed. The site supports the compelling concept of the right to know.

Cult of the Frozen Cow

Monday, 18 February 2008 2:41 P GMT+01

Being spared the detail of food processing can be merciful as we learn that 64.9 kilograms of beef have to be recalled in the States - some of that beef could be two years old.

Nigeria: Governor's reputation goes up in hospital flames

Sunday, 17 February 2008 2:04 P GMT+01

A new hospital in Maiduguri completed in June 2006 had stayed closed because the state governor was waiting to get the President to cut the tape. It has now been razed and the governor laments the loss of his reputation, he has more to lose.

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Cloning: Vitually indistinguishable shit

Sunday, 20 January 2008 8:38 A GMT+01

Cloned food might be virtually indistinguishable from conventional produce but it does not give the FDA the right to not require cloned foods be specifically labelled.