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When machines go on strike who can survive? Who will stand in their way when they join forces to get rid of us? We have become so much depended on machinery and technology that we can barely do anything without them. Picture a world without machinery and we have nothing, we are plunged back into the stone age, to a time when we are unable to do anything complex, we were helpless as an infant and always at mercy to the forces of nature . Shouldn't we rethink our building strategies altogether?

With our modern world plagued by a horde of epidemics, the ordinary folks continue to question the role of science in tackling deadly diseases and preventing future pandemics. Are our doctors and scientists sleeping on their job when billions of taxpayers' money goes into their coffers for disease research and drug development? How much longer should we continue to rely upon ineffective medical practices? We think we are prepared well enough until when the next pandemic strikes, it catches everyone off-guard and the world is plunged into unimaginable chaos. You see physicians, nurses, ...

Darwin gathers his large ape family to tell them a tale, the ascent of man is retold once more in the eyes of the apes, he teaches them many tricks which they can use to outwit man and remove him from his current place of dominion, "they can't do anything without their witchcraft," he tells them, he even gives them secret plans to cause mayhem in the peoples households."

With world war three looming on the horizon, everyone Is holding their breath and praying hard so that the current tensions on the eastern block do not spill out of control into world war three. The antagonists on both sides are not willing to give an inch of territory, none of them wants to be the first one to blink. This tense atmosphere brings back the memories of the famous Winston Churchill's speech in Fulton, Missouri, which went like...''an iron curtain has descended across the continent…'' well if Churchill was alive now, he would still say that the iron curtain is still in its ...

I walked into an auditorium to find a group of artist perform, "la danse des sauvages," or simply the dance of the savages, with a dozen few people watching them from the benches, I asked for what purpose were they doing it for, was it a performance of sorts? When a director replied instantly claiming that he wanted to show the world how savage we are, any form of entertainment that promotes violence, encourages civil disobedience and harden people's hearts is savage, however peacefully it may be presented, what matters most is the outcome.

When running an organization, things go wrong all the time. A lot of managers complain so much about the work they do because every working day of their lives is always a fight for survival. They feel like going to the office every day to try and rescue a sinking ship. Just like seafaring captains, our leaders go through the same kind of struggles every day. Managing a ship, especially a huge tanker or cargo vessel is such an incredible task, first of all, the captain has to make sure all cargo is carefully loaded onto their ship, secondly, they have to meticulously manoeuvre their ships ...

Every day we hear terrifying stories of prolonged droughts, heat waves, torrential floods, deepfreezes & hurricanes on the news. Every new year these weather phenomena become more extreme & unpredictable, it appears that mother nature grows angrier every new coming day. What more evidence do people need to fully believe that the climate is not just changing but has already changed for the worse. Hurricanes, tornadoes & typhoons are showing up in places they have never been before, & happening more frequently, they unleash the full wrath of mother nature onto the inhabitants of the coasts ...

When some people show off their wealth by adorning their bodies with glittering jewels, driving flashy cars, and going on expensive vacations, it sends out one message, that these fellows are not really rich, they may be owning only a few dented cars, and therefore trying to show off to their wealthy neighbors that they are equally rich and should be treated with the respect they deserve, they are weighing down their bodies with shiny jewels just to look like people they are not. if they were truly rich, they won't be showing off this way, very rich fellows never put their wealth on public ...

How exactly should you feel like when you find yourself ill in an hospital or home bed, sometimes you are left alone or get overwhelmed by the large number of visitors that flow in and out of the room, should you battle it out all by yourself or should you try to forget that you are ill, the way others try to put it, of course you can't forget your current pain, a few old friends come in and try to comfort you, some do it well while others add salt to the injury, then an experienced physician walks in, he sees the uneasiness in your face and finds your hands stretching out to a glass cup ...

The world is full of fakes, fake music, fake maps, fake clocks, fake passion, fake everything. You have to figure out for yourself which is legit and which is not. However there are those things that start out as poor samples of an existing one, then later go on to improve, to surpass the brilliance of the already existing ones. To great advantage of the public, the good news is that all humans have an inborn ability to detect falsehood, to distinguish truth from lies, and quality form error, when you see someone or something that’s fake, you will just know it from the start, even a small...

"I have seen people swarm around you like bees on a honeycomb", says martin to his old friend Jimmy, "what is it that you give them, which makes them like you so much? There certainly must be something interesting they are getting from you, can I get a piece of that too? Please tell me something funny, it could be anything, a story, a joke, a riddle, a phrase, just anything," pleads martin with now reluctant Jimmy, "all right then", replies the latter, just remember that I am no Comedian, hold your ears wide open, and be ready to laugh at anything I do or say, deal or no deal?" "yeah you ...

I never had any poor image of myself since childhood till when others made me think so lowly of myself, it begins as a simple comment, a playful tease which turns into a contemplation and later becomes a belief, then slowly becomes a reality. A feeling of uneasiness begins to crouch into the mind, some of such thoughts do rise deep from oneself, however, most are ideas of external origin, beliefs put into them by others who despise them, it therefore depends on one's own ability to wade off these invading notions. Whether they stand their ground and defend their confidence or simply give up...

All languages are beautiful for those that speak them and those that don’t understand, it's just like listening to another pair of gibberish parrots, there is no single person who can speak all the languages. That if it was possible would drive any human mad if they make it halfway, or even a quarter, the diversity of languages is what makes our world more exciting and more beautiful, it gives each person a sense of identity and a group to belong to, it gives each individual a unique view of life, when a village chief is asked by an explorer, "which language do you speak sire?" In reply ...

Unable to tell where you are going? You could be heading into a gold mine and strike it rich or you could be walking on the ruins of an ancient lost city , you become a discoverer. Likewise you could be also walking straight into the mouth of a lion's den, and easily get devoured by the fierce beast, never to be heard of or from again. Whatever it is that motivates people to travel into the unknown territories, to sail across uncharted waters or dive deep into a dark cave, that I do not know neither does anyone else, for the public believes they are bored fellows who are tired of living and...

A fierce debate ensues between groups of animals. each one of them puts itself in the right while putting all the others in the wrong. no one accepts the fact that they should continue to live alongside one another despite their numerous differences and concerns amongst one another. they go to court to settle their quarrel, unfortunately things turn sour over there and the quarrel becomes more difficult to solve. Who shall win the case, let us read this interesting story together.

When Galileo first challenged the flat earth theory four centuries ago, his new invention called the telescope took the world by storm. it was such an alien thing to people at the time, but amazed the world anyway, people now had a chance to look at heavenly bodies in their full glory. nowadays astronomy and the study of heavenly bodies is a basic knowledge education taught in schools worldwide and Telescopes are now so cheap than you can find them in the average household nowadays.

Messengers are known to have been attacked for delivering bad news to their bosses and everyday reporters get attacked in their line of duty when gathering newsworthy pieces of information on behalf of the general public. Journalism is the only profession in the whole world where the primary job of the employees is to dig up dirt on others. Well nobody likes being publicly exposed however nice a person they are by nature, when something unfavorable about them gets aired they are naturally inclined to retaliate, which could mean causing harm to the people that dug up dirt on them in the ...

A deer, and a moose are eating forage from underneath ice on a snow-capped mountains, with this simple form of food, it grows larger, stronger and fattens really fast, the bears and wolves then come in trying to prey on the deer's young, or if possible the deer itself. Why does it have to wait for the dear to finish up the grass before it swallows them whole? Why can't it just chew the fodder directly? When lion king misses or fails to catch his meal he simply eats grass like a buffalo, he then grows stronger and gets to live longer.

When the judiciary fails to deliver justice and turns a blind eye to the trouble in the streets, it's the time for the ordinary folks to convince them to do something, "we see people wasting away, we are losing lives, social structures have lost their steering and direction, even a police station is not a safe place to hide anymore," says a young activist lawyer to the supreme court judge, "all this is happening right under your nose while you sit right there on your high throne-like chair doing nothing as if you were a supreme being, wouldn’t you at least say something your highness? you...

The Internet just came out of the blue, people were a bit suspicious of what it really was about at first. No one had special interests in it to begin with. But now fast-forward that a few decades later, the internet has become an everyday necessity. Thanks to genius scientists like Tim Berners-Lee for creating the world wide web, and making the internet less techie. Since the web became more interactive and easier to use by the common folk, it grew like a mushroom and covered the entire globe in almost an instant. Almost everything nowadays happens online. Ask anyone who lives in a ...