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Where Did Viruses Come From?

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  In 2020, the existence of the entire human race was threatened by this little tiny thing called coronavirus. Interestingly, this thing is just one out of the diverse family of viruses which are just less than 200 nanometers (nm) in diameter. What is more fascinating is that we arguably cannot even classify this thing as a living thing or be regarded as being alive. They are obligate intracellular parasites i.e. they require infecting a host in order to carry out basic life activities like replication or metabolic processes to generate energy for themselves. Aside this, they are just typical crystal compounds outside any biological host and can be said to be the bridge between living and non-living things. The structure of a virus is very simple. It typically consist of a protein capsid head that houses genetic materials (DNA or RNA) and a tail. However, the question on the origin of viruses or where they come from is an interesting topic in biology because it gives us a better perspe
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Can we use Machine Learning to solve Anti-microbial Resistance problem in Nigeria?

Amidst all the hullabaloo happening in Nigeria with every system failing and sector breaking down, it seem as though antibiotics are also not left out. Have you used an antibiotic drug recently to treat an infection and discovered that it's ineffective? Or been told at the hospital that there are no effective antibiotic drug to treat your infection? Well, this results from one of the most disturbing problem in medical sciences; antibiotic resistance. Infectious diseases are major cause of morbidity and death in Nigeria and they are caused by tiny little creatures called microbes. These microbes are killed using antibiotic drugs but unfortunately, they have been able to resist the effect of these drugs. So how can we combat this problem? Here's a research review of mine on "Machine Learning: An approach to Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance Problem in Nigeria". I looked into how we can harness the current advancement in technology - artificial intelligence - to solve
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How big is our Universe?

It's safe to say that most humans do not have the slightest knowledge about our universe and perhaps, for those who claim to have, believe that our universe is just a combined "heaven" and "earth". Whilst the best information we can get about the universe from some people is that it's made up of our simple solar system - the Sun, Moon and the conventional nine planets. Meanwhile, it's even more weird to realise that there are humans who aren't bothered with this - basic understanding of the universe. Undoubtedly, these are very basic knowledge which everyone should know... basic and very important. These information help us to understand our universe, to interact with it appropriately and shape our perception accordingly. So, how big is our universe? With our modern telescope, the farthest we have been able to observe is a universe that is 93 billion light years (wide) in diameter. Mind you, this is just how much we can observe. Thus the diameter
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Einstein's General Relativity and Field Equations

  In 1907, Albert Einstein had, what he regarded as the "happiest thought of his life". He imagined a man falling from the top of a house - that shocks you? 😂. Yeah, that was all that is needed for him, to instigate this remarkable insight about "gravity". Isaac Newton did work on gravity too but he only calculated the strength but does not know exactly how gravity works or pulls its force. So, Einstein thought that a man falling from the top of the house will feel weightless i.e. the man won't feel his own weight. That, tells Einstein that gravity have to with motion. He thought about this for 8 years and finally, he was able to come about the remarkable theory of General relativity, in 1915, which explains how gravity really works. With the help of some of his mathematician friends, he was able to describe this with some elegant equations. Thus, the Einstein Fields Equation. Okay, let's get technical a little bit ... General Relativity tells us that
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Why Science Works

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Science is undoubtedly the greatest weapon the human race has ever had. If you have problem with admitting that fact,  I suppose you should wonder how we came about your smartphone or the laptop in front of you or how we come about the internet. Frankly, those are even just a very little out of many things science has thrown our way.  Science has been here for ages, as far back as the days of Aristotle. It studies everything that is, giving us answers to most of the instinctive - due to our inherent curiosity - questions that comes to our minds as we try to understand every thing or phenomena that exist. And it does that, by describing the nature or behavior of every thing or phenomena using natural laws and theories.  Richard Feynman made that statement in one of his lectures. However, I have personally seen people, being skeptic or far worse, being kind of cynic about science, despite its obvious great impact in the human society at large. Such individuals hold  notions like science
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Homosexuality to LGBTQIA+ : An Ethical Philosophical Conundrum

 Here's a short treatise on the ethical conundrum around the weird and odd sexual orientation of homosexuality and LGBTQIA+. Title: Homosexuality To LGBTQIA+: An Ethical Philosophical Conundrum. Disclaimer: it's worth of note that this treatise is free from the influence of beliefs but rather based on empirical evidences and logical principles. You can download the PDF here
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Feminism: The Philosophical Conundrum

After procrastinating for several days 😂... I have finally been able to come up with a PDF on my little treatise on feminism today...😌 Don't mind me 😂, procrastination is now my hobby...it is said that it is a characteristic of geniuses 😂, so I wanna be one too...😒😂 Now, you can easily download here And you can also decide to read online👇:
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