Rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, seeks peace with Jews for frequent antisemitic rants

Rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, seeks peace with Jews for frequent antisemitic rants

Adidas has sold hundreds of millions of euros in remaining Yeezy shoes, donating part of the profits to groups like the Anti-Defamation League and the Philonise & Keeta Floyd Institute for Social Change.

Read more
When one good turn deserves another: How doing good secures your life, delivers miracles

When one good turn deserves another: How doing good secures your life, delivers miracles

Prof Balunywa loves critical thinking. So do I. Creativity, initiative, innovation and imagination, are the hallmarks of Balunywa. If I have not preached these as critical human resources, I have also deployed them. So there is a good degree of congruence.

Read more
Hell on Earth: In a troubled world, Christians strive to put aside earthly worries on Christmas Day

Hell on Earth: In a troubled world, Christians strive to put aside earthly worries on Christmas Day

Prosperous, mostly secular Europe marked the holiday in historic cathedrals and brightly lit holiday markets, with an undertone of tension spread by the war in Gaza and by one even closer to home in neighbouring Ukraine. Wages that haven’t yet caught up with inflation dampened the mood during the pre-holiday shopping and dining season.

Read more
God and Big Bang: Homosexuals don’t subscribe to Creation Theory because they don’t believe God exists

God and Big Bang: Homosexuals don’t subscribe to Creation Theory because they don’t believe God exists

The farthest galaxies were moving faster than the ones close to us. This means if some things were moving away, then long ago everything was close to every other thing, and most likely interconnected. This means that everything we can see in our universe today – stars, planets, comets, asteroids were not there at the beginning. The question is where did they come from? According to Lamaitre, a super long time was involved. Scientists have calculated that the universe is 13,800,000,000 (13.8 billion) years old, which is a very long time.  

Read more
80-year-old childless billionaire picks his 51-year old ex-gardener to inherit his $220 billion wealth

80-year-old childless billionaire picks his 51-year old ex-gardener to inherit his $220 billion wealth

The gardener is reportedly married to a woman from Spain, with two children of their own, and stands to inherit a significant portion of Puech’s fortune, which includes acquiring substantial properties in Marrakesh, Morocco and Montreux, Switzerland valued at $5.9 million.

Read more
Portuguese ship that vanished in 16th century excavated in Namibian desert with gold, copper

Portuguese ship that vanished in 16th century excavated in Namibian desert with gold, copper

The condition that the ship was found in suggests that the storm that caused the shipwreck was especially violent, although an absence of human remains (besides a few scattered bone fragments) in the site suggests that most of the crew on board survived the wreck or died at sea.

Read more
Imagining Africa in 2123: In parts of Africa concealed genocide by foreigners is decimating nations

Imagining Africa in 2123: In parts of Africa concealed genocide by foreigners is decimating nations

The consequences of colonialism have been many, diverse and well-documented. One consequence is continued deceptive ownership of Africa by the orthodox colonisers in terms of economics, politics, sociality and futurity. This is most expressed by the deceptive robbery of Africa through foreign aid. In reality money flows out of Africa far more than comes in from the so-called foreign aid-giving countries.

Read more
Making of CIA spy III: Learning to steal secrets, exploiting locals and ruthlessly killing anyone

Making of CIA spy III: Learning to steal secrets, exploiting locals and ruthlessly killing anyone

When Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields came up with the idea for The Patient, it was Fields who was initially intrigued by serial killers. Weisberg wasn’t, but they kept talking about it, then figured out that Sam, played by Domhnall Gleeson, was in therapy: he wants to change. Then they had the idea that he kidnaps his therapist, and now it was a show – also a merciless examination of how unfree all us benighted humans are, manacled to our stupid psychologies and impediments, even when not literally manacled in a basement.

Read more
Making of CIA spy II: ‘If you’re a case officer, a shockingly high ratio of your informants are lying to you’

Making of CIA spy II: ‘If you’re a case officer, a shockingly high ratio of your informants are lying to you’

Weisberg spent a couple of weeks wandering around and thinking about it, and decided the story should be set in the 1980s and be told from the point of view of the KGB spies. And it should be about a family. Weisberg was by then a father himself and something that had stuck with him from his CIA days was how many people there lied to their kids about what they really did for a living.

Read more
Age of Unreason: How African universities churn out parrots, endorse knowledge ‘incest’ and stymie academic production

Age of Unreason: How African universities churn out parrots, endorse knowledge ‘incest’ and stymie academic production

Hierarchical teaching and learning become a thing of the past and all become teachers and learners when they interact, not in classrooms or lecture theaters, but in teams. That way universities start to produce graduates who are more of independent thinkers who can see alternative views as sources of new ideas rather than opposition.

Read more