gentleshaid (@gentleshaid) - STEMGeeks

gentleshaid

Nigeria

Writer | Curator | Minimalist

11 days ago

Your Chemistry Teacher Was Trying to Tell You Something I've been teaching Chemistry for more than 5 years now, and it amazes me how people don't see many subjects beyond the classroom and passing exams. Just a couple of days ago, I…

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2 months ago

Why 'Morning and Night' Isn't Always Good Enough for Your Medication. For about two years, I worked as a pharmacy technician. Looking back now, there are so many little things we did that I never questioned. One of them was how casually we handled…

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3 months ago

The smell of death A few years ago, I stumbled upon one of those stories that makes you pause and say, "Nah... this can't be real." It was about a Scottish woman named Joy Milne . For years…

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4 months ago

The Mushroom Test: How Our Ancestors Practiced Science Without Knowing It One of the topics I enjoy teaching students the most is the scientific method. There is something deeply satisfying about explaining the process of observation, hypothesis…

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4 months ago

The Elephant in the Room: Alcohol and Its Illusions I was around 18 years old when I had my first alcoholic drink. It was freshly tapped palm wine. You could drink gallons of it without wanting to stop, at least until the alcohol…

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4 months ago

Good Health? Eating less may be what you need Food is life, no doubt about that. Without food, no human being can survive beyond a couple of days, with the highest recorded survival period being around 21 days. As long as an…

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6 months ago

Global Warming and the Politics of Convenience Global warming is not entirely a bad thing. In fact, without it, the Earth might have remained locked in an ice age, making much of today’s civilization impossible. The warming…

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6 months ago

When Vaccines Don’t Seem to Work: My Measles Experience I have listened to and read about several arguments against vaccines. Initially, I thought many of these arguments were simply dumb and reeked of a lack of education. With time…

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7 months ago

Young Blood, Old Questions: What the Science Really Says About Ageing I first saw the headline on Sky News: Drinking young blood could prevent age-related diseases, study reveals. Even though the article date 2018, it hit me like a

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7 months ago

Something Must Kill a Man Something must kill a man. The above phrase is a popular joke in Nigerian societies, and perhaps beyond. It is usually pronounced out of frustration against several lifestyle…

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