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The useless disciplines

No academic discipline is inherently useless, arguesI have borrowed this title from Allan Douglas Galloway, a Scottish Professor of Theology who taught at University College Ibadan in the 1950s. At ...
Anthony Fredericks has written over 180 books, two on creativity. He says that these four common phrases can stop creative ...
A Professor of political science at the federal university Lokoja , Professor Ebenezer Ejalonibu Lawal has said the country continue to grow without much progress because the nation's development ...
There are several reasons why this term is problematic, not least of which is the fact that it dehumanises people by equating their human existence with a criminal act, rather than describing their ...
According to Caught Offside, the Sporting defender is now attracting major attention ahead of the 2026 summer transfer window ...
Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, have declared a 72-hour lecture boycott in protest against what they described as the “inadequate and poorly implemented” campus ...
Last May, I gave a lecture at the Air War College, the Air Force’s senior service school for officers. I have taught at West Point and spoken at several other senior service schools. At the Air War ...
Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with ...
The Boltzmann brain hypothesis suggests that our memories are nothing more than unlikely fluctuations. According to the theory, the past and the future don’t exist—only the present does. Researchers ...
Three new books apply an economist’s lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature itself. By Nick Summers Nick Summers is the former Sunday Business editor at ...
Unpack the Bag of Marbles Problem from the Feynman Lectures in this clear and engaging video! We break down the physics concepts step by step, showing how probability, statistics, and mechanics come ...
Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...