Africa as a Living Laboratory
Science is said to have two aims: theory and experiment. Theories try to say how the world is. Experiment and subsequent technology change the world. We represent and we intervene. We represent in...
View ArticleBattle Hymn of the Research Experts (circa 1959)
The poem was published anonymously in the Northern Rhodesian Journal (in present day Zambia) in 1959. Some talk of race relations, and some of politics, Of labour and migrations, of hist’ry, lice and...
View ArticleIt turns out that life expectancy in the ancient past was longer than you think
This is from Sapiens: …. People in the past were not all dead by 30. Ancient documents confirm this. In the 24th century B.C., the Egyptian Vizier Ptahhotep wrote verses about the disintegrations of...
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