Medicine. Technology. Art.

The burden of cancer is beyond the number of people affected, it is in the plans and dreams it destroys and the beautiful souls it annihilates while darkening the hearts of those who are related to the victims. Like most chronic diseases, many scientists have made it their life-long commitment to improving the prognosis of these cancers. However, I think there is a caveat that is not judiciously utilised, as I would not want to state that it is rarely or never used. And that caveat is collaborative work amongst scientists and their studies. This collaborative work includes labs with their principal investigators (PIs) working together, beyond university or funding scopes, to answer specific questions that can bring humanity closer to finding a cure to this menace. But the biggest bane is the knowledge gap between all that has been done and the next questions that should be answered. PIs, together with their team members, usually have questions they seek to answer based on the volume of...

You only live once! A mantra that most people think gives allowance to spend and be spent with no thoughts for tomorrow and years to come and generations unborn. But look at those words again - You only live once! It can be used to portray the lifestyle of a city big boy, but it can be used by a monk too! You go to a monastery, and see a monk say “Fellow human, you only live once”. You want to take a pause and think deeply about those words, but he is saying the same thing -YOLO! YOLO goes both ways - the debauchery path and otherwise. Try to wash your hand, one of them, without the help of the other. You will do a fairly good job, only that some parts of the eminences and the larger part of the back will not, cannot, be touched and so remain unclean. What to do? Wash your hands with both hands.  Live the two faces of YOLO! Most old people have regrets. I don’t think the goal should be no regrets, but rather little regrets with many sweet memories. Not totally related, you rush to ...

  Kola is really hoping that his barber boss will give him some money so that food will be in his belly tonight. Later in the evening, Tunde walks by the barbershop and sees a boy, surely in his age grade, eating a meal comfortably at his own pace and when he wants to. On the other hand, he has to be at home for the night meal at the dining table where the other members of the family must be at the table. He, amongst other responsibilities, must be clean at the table, and hands washed or else the food will likely be forfeited. Perspectives. Kola needs to literally make a daily income to eat every day. This is not because he is a biological orphan, his folks are alive, they just have many mouths to feed. Tunde is not aware of this childhood turmoil that is Kola’s life, except for the chilling young man who eats alone at the barbershop. What’s spectacular about eating in the dining room every night. A few things come to the fore, but the striking feature, which is rapidly depleting i...