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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

“‘Give me Harry Potter,’ said Voldemort’s voice, ‘and none shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded.’”
As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and takes to the skies, leaving Privet Drive for the last time, Harry Potter knows that Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters are not far behind. The protective charm that has kept Harry safe until now is broken, but he cannot keep hiding. The Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything Harry loves and to stop him Harry will have to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes. The final battle must begin — Harry must stand and face his enemy…

Origin by Dan Brown

Bilbao, Spain
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement — the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon’s first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough… one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence.
As the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Reeling and facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the provocative event. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch’s secret.
Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain’s Royal Palace itself… and who will stop at nothing to silence Edmond Kirsch. On a trail marked by modern art and enigmatic symbols, Langdon and Vidal uncover clues that ultimately bring them face-to-face with Kirsch’s shocking discovery… and the breathtaking truth that has long eluded us.
Origin is stunningly inventive — Dan Brown’s most brilliant and entertaining novel to date.

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

He can’t leave his hotel. You won’t want to.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility — a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

“‘There will be three tasks, spaced throughout the school year, and they will test the champions in many different ways… their magical prowess – their daring – their powers of deduction – and, of course, their ability to cope with danger.’”
The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Only wizards who are over seventeen are allowed to enter — but that doesn’t stop Harry dreaming that he will win the competition. Then at Hallowe’en, when the Goblet of Fire makes its selection, Harry is amazed to find his name is one of those that the magical cup picks out. He will face death-defying tasks, dragons and Dark wizards, but with the help of his best friends, Ron and Hermione, he might just make it through — alive!

Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.
Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager — obsessed with music, food, and girls — but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.
In an attempt to protect him, Pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier — a move they think will keep him out of combat. But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.
Now, with the opportunity to spy for the Allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.
Fans of All the Light We Cannot See, The Nightingale, and Unbroken will enjoy this riveting saga of history, suspense, and love.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

“‘You are sharing the Dark Lord’s thoughts and emotions. The Headmaster thinks it inadvisable for this to continue. He wishes me to teach you how to close your mind to the Dark Lord.’”
Dark times have come to Hogwarts. After the Dementors’ attack on his cousin Dudley, Harry Potter knows that Voldemort will stop at nothing to find him. There are many who deny the Dark Lord’s return, but Harry is not alone: a secret order gathers at Grimmauld Place to fight against the Dark forces. Harry must allow Professor Snape to teach him how to protect himself from Voldemort’s savage assaults on his mind. But they are growing stronger by the day and Harry is running out of time…

A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. To the south, the king’s powers are failing — his most trusted adviser dead under mysterious circumstances and his enemies emerging from the shadows of the throne. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the frozen land they were born to. Now Lord Eddard Stark is reluctantly summoned to serve as the king’s new Hand, an appointment that threatens to sunder not only his family but the kingdom itself.
Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.
Unparalleled in scope and execution, A Game of Thrones is one of those rare reading experiences that catch you up from the opening pages, won’t let you go until the end, and leave you yearning for more.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

“Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter ‘H’.”
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!

It by Stephen King

“A landmark in American literature” (Chicago Sun-Times) — Stephen King’s #1 national bestseller about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers…an evil without a name: It.
Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made 28 years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers.
Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It.

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population.
The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment’s calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid’s Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.

THE DANGER OF BEING OURSELVES. TRULY BEING OURSELVES

It is the naive that tell you 'to be yourself'. The premise of this advice is naiveté at its worst. Because it assumes that all humans are the good guys. The reality, though, is that we are not all good guys. Telling a terrorist to be himself, an axe murderer to be herself, an anti-Semitic mass shooter to be himself, a pedophile to be himself, is not good for the overall well-being of the human race.

Dictators, nuclear weapons scientists, drug barons, child traffickers are being themselves as well as astronauts and missionary doctors and kindergarten teachers. The blanket statement ‘be yourself’ is a loaded weapon, capable of immense good or of unthinkable disaster.

The solution then, is to tell the human race to be the good version of themselves. Or be someone else other than their evil selves. For if the devil were to get hold of that advice and take it seriously, we'd all be in trouble. 

On second thoughts, I think he has.

Why Boko Haram is the best recipe for economic boom in Nigeria since the discovery of oill

Why Boko Haram is the best recipe for economic boom in Nigeria since the discovery of oil
War is horror. There are few things more destructive than he carnage that results from war. Natural disasters, for instance. But sometimes, war can be the solution to a booming economy.

Before America joined in the fight against Hitler in World War 2, her economy was wilting. Unemployment was at a record high, the effects of the Great Depression were present in the minds, stomachs and businesses of the people.

But immediately the Empire of Japan bombed Pearl Harbour and forced President Roosevelt to declare war, the machinery of economic boom kicked into place.

For you see, to keep the troops fit for battle, American businesses began to organise and manufacture. Women, for the first time in the history of the country, joined the workforce; increasing human capital by nearly 50%! Intel. Weapons. Food. Uniforms. Entertainment. Medical Supplies. These and more were needed to win the war, not counting the aid collaboration that flowed in and out from allies
 The Stock Exchange began to thicken with activities and the dollar indeed strengthened. At the end of the War, Hitler was dead and America was alive. Her economy, that is.

And this is the reason for the title of this piece. That the Nigerian Government is yet to realise that the terror threat on hand is the perfect opportunity to create jobs.

Recruiting the troops, their uniforms, their foods, medication, their intel and equipment, amidst others are a key employment tools.

No, I don't mean the selected companies to whom weapons sales contracts are being awarded to.

I mean if indeed the government made the fight against terror the collective fight of all, then citizens will care enough to volunteer information, give their bio-tech ideas on how to smoke out the enemy. Then people will care enough to come forward with their machines that can detect explosives and/or neuter them ere they explode. The farmers would have gone to their farms earlier to harvest food for the troops. We might have explored technology to render our military planes more stealth. Satellite tracking might have managed to predict the movements of the terrorists. That 17 year old kid might have found a way to track them from their latest Youtube upload. Doctors might have been on hand to treat wounded men and rehabilitate shell-shocked ones. Etcetera.
If the government had involved us, made this war ours, then we would have said, the troops need us, need our expertise, our loyalty. Let's unite to fight our common enemy.

If the government had made this fight our fight, then we would have cared enough to engage in creative ways to rid our land of this enemy and by so doing, inadvertently, creating more jobs and an economic boom that's non-oil related.

But sadly, the rhetoric behind the war on terror is this: 'we know the people behind Boko Haram. They are in my government and their aim in to destabilise my efforts so that everyone will say I have run an ineffective government.'

When citizens begin to say 'ehn, let them kill themselves in the north, nothing consign me, I'm a Southrrner', then the collective resolve needed to weed out terror while growing our economy is lost.

The green is lost.

NAPOLEON HILL WAS WRONG |THINK AND GROW RICH|

The book 'THINK AND GROW RICH' is arguably the world's premier manual on wealth accumulation. Everyone from residents of the Forbes' list to aspiring entrepreneurs swear by Hill's exposé. 

Revolutionary though Hill's work is, it contains an error. An error in declaring that success usually eludes its pursuer until the age of forty due to an inability to rein in overactive sex drives. ‘Sex transmutation’, is the phrase he used. 

Here are his exact words, excerpts from Chapter 11 of Think and Grow Rich.
I discovered, from the analysis of over 25,000 people, that men who succeed in an outstanding way, seldom do so before the age of forty, and more often they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of fifty. This fact was so astounding that it prompted me to go into the study of its cause most carefully, carrying the investigation over a period of more than twelve years. 

This study disclosed the fact that the major reason why the majority of men who succeed do not begin to do so before the age of forty to fifty, is their tendency to DISSIPATE their energies through over indulgence in physical expression of the emotion of sex. The majority of men never learn that the urge of sex has other possibilities, which far transcend in importance, that of mere physical expression. The majority of those who make this discovery, do so after having wasted many years at a period when the sex energy is at its height, prior to the age of forty-five to fifty. This usually is followed by noteworthy achievement. 

The lives of many men up to, and sometimes well past the age of forty, reflect a continued dissipation of energies, which could have been more profitably turned into better channels. Their finer and more powerful emotions are sown wildly to the four winds. Out of this habit of the male, grew the term, "sowing his wild oats." 

The desire for sexual expression is by far the strongest and most impelling of all the human emotions, and for this very reason this desire, when harnessed and transmuted into action, other than that of physical expression, may raise one to the status of a genius."
Hill was limited by the technology, the available information of his time. He couldn't have foreseen Justin Bieber, Honey Boo and the sour-faced cat who has more money than most senior executives. Hill couldn't have foreseen the fact that teenagers, babies really, are Youtube phenomena who pull in 7 figures monthly. Hill couldn't foresee Bill Gates.

Like Roger Bannister who broke the barrier and paved the way for others, Bill Gates shattered the billionaire glass ceiling that Napoleon Hill and his research set in place for the rest of humanity. Dude was worth billions before he turned 40. Zuckerberg, Facebook founder did it by 23. Silicon Valley is full of guys like this. Guys who are giving Hill's research the middle finger. Who achieved worthwhile success before the big 4-0, men whose sex drives were still roaring like the revved up engines of those autos in Fast and Furious movies, men who have barely outgrown their boyhood.

Not just in technology and science, but in advocacy. Teenager Malala (she's so famous she needs no surname) is the youngest human ever to win a Nobel. Critics say it's because she was shot by a world-famous terror group and survived. Critics also don't realise there are millions of gunshot-wound survivors. The fact remains, Malala is not 40. 

Hill, you were wrong. 

Goes to show that the best profound-sounding philosophy is at best limited by the technology; the available information of its time.
So in business and in relationships, in life and even in death, challenge the status quo, no matter how highly profiled the upholders of said status quo are. 

It is always right until proven wrong. Hill was wrong. In that particular philosophy, at least. The choice then remains with you and me. Who will we be: the person that is limited by the Napoleon Hills or the person that will shatter the ceilings set in place by the Napoleon Hills?
Disculpa, Napoleon. This one, you got wrong. Thank you though, for the rest of your book. 

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"WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER" by WINSTON CHURCHILL

These words of Winston Churchill are immortal. For a man who oversaw Britain in the heat of the war when Hitler wanted it for himself, he is perhaps one of the most qualified to give us a sermon on steely resolve. Find his words for yourself below:
4 June 1940

“I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.

At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of His Majesty’s Government-every man of them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation.

The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.

Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”


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6 THINGS PRAYER WON'T CHANGE. EVER!

6 things prayer will not change EVER.
1. God forgiving the devil so we all can live in peace.
2. The birth and rise of the antichrist. Don't forget his drive to brand foreheads and arms with his 666 number, according to Christian Prophecy.
3. That good things stop happening to bad people and vice versa. Unless you want to be in charge of controlling who gets free sunlight and rain, that ship sailed a long time ago. Might as well get used to the neighbourhood drug dealer living to a long old age with a brood of children and a beautiful faithful wife while missionaries get beheaded live in YouTube videos by ISIS.
5. That children get to choose their parents. Never going to happen in this life. Children will be born to evil parents as well as angels.
6. Everyone believing in your God. People have got the right to go to hell if they damn well please! So, quit getting so riled up when they spit your doctrine back in your face. Your God's got that covered. He's got his torture chamber all fired up. Literally

HOW KYLIE JENNER BECAME ARMENIAN

When the Kardashians were selling us their brand of exotic beauty, a key refrain was the "Armenian" edge to their beauty.
Their father, Robert Kardashian was Armenian and it is from his side of the family that the first three girls of the clan get their exotic beauty.
This is the message behind what they sold: the public images of dark sexy genes that are foreign to the Caucasian race: their long dark locks, their pout and olive skin, their luscious curves and attendant impossibly huge behinds. Everything about them was the opposite of the waif-nature of beauty that most Americans are used to. Beauty as represented by Paris Hilton: slim, blonde and athletic.
And it sold. By the billions. As evidenced in the number of women that embraced contouring because Kim did it. Or announced they now loved their ample behind because the Kardashian girls flaunted theirs in nude photos. Or by how their bouncy thick black curls with centre parts spawned a billion dollar industry of hair extensions as worn by Kourtney, Kim and Khloe. Yes, I am talking hair with different nationalities: Indian Hair, Brazilian Hair, Peruvian Hair etc.
Now, my curiosity is aroused when Kylie begins to look Armenian and exotic. When Kylie begins to look exactly like Kim, the most Armenian of them all (according to the K-Script).
Kylie is NOT Armenian. Not by any stretch. Her father is the very American Bruce Jenner and already too American Kris Jenner. In other words, there should be nothing exotic or resembling Armenian in Kylie's beauty.
However, Google "similarities between Kim and Kylie" and the resemblance is striking. The new and improved Kylie, I mean.
It seems that Kylie didn't like the face and body she was born with and has reportedly spent anywhere between $20,000 to $200,000 in plastic surgery to look like big step sister Kim.
Here's the thing: present-day Kim's face is not the face she was born with either!
Which now begs the question: how exotic and "Armenian" is the Kardashian beauty in the first place?
If Kylie and Kim look virtually like twins, then the Kardashian beauty is store-bought, not exotic by Armenian standards.
There are ugly people in Armenia, by the way. As there are ugly people anywhere in the world.
As are average-looking people everywhere you turn.
So before you're tempted to beat yourself for not looking as flawless as the Kardashian-Jenner Klan looks after a battalion of makeup artists, a calvary of hair stylists and two artillery groups of photoshop experts try to perfect what a SWAT team of the world's most expensive plastic surgeons didn't quite get right in the OR, remember, you're just as stunning as the next reality star with a K name

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WHY DO YOU HATE THE KARDASHIANS? LACK OF TALENT SHOULDN'T BE A REASON.

So I stumbled across a Cosmo magazine article cataloguing the meanest things other celebrities have ever said to and/or concerning the Kardashian-Jenner clan. Google"20 Meanest Things Celebrities Have Said About The Kardashians" to read it.
It is no news that people reserve the kind of hatred we reserve for snakes and aim it at the members of that family, especially Kim. We say they are famous for being famous, i.e. they don't have any talent that can justify the kind of fame they possess.

I however find the argument that Kim Kardashian and her sisters are worthless because they are 'talent-less utterly without merit.
If you hate the Kardashians because they are famous for nothing, then you have to explain yourself to me more clearly.
 Here's  what I mean.
Somehow we as a society have placed a premium on people who have 'talent'. Talent here refers to the ability to sing, dance, code, write, paint, cook, run, golf, play tennis, blog, anchor the evening news, or any other thing that involves skill and expertise that is usually innate.
Here's my question: what are people who can't do any of these things to do? What if you can't play sports? What if you can't solve calculus equations, or act in a movie, or be a stand-up comic? What if you're not an astronaut, an auto designer, an architect, a basketball player, a sculptor, a poet or the high-in-demand media consultant?
What are you to do? How are you to earn a living? How are you to achieve prominence?
The argument has been made that everyone has a talent. Meaning somehow Kim and her sisters just might be able to sing, dance, paint or even write codes for Google if they cared to explore the depths of their humanity and intellect.
I see something wrong with this argument: that to be a human being of value, we all simply must have a skill. We must. If not, then we are worthless, not worthy of being celebrated. We are somehow to be vilified, thrashed and destroyed without an ounce of dignity left.
Granted, Kim does herself no favours. By posing nude, full frontal. By being an attention-whore at all costs. Her family do nothing more than push the boundaries on what decency is and what is acceptable behaviour for the American society and, fault globalisation, the world.

But if America wants to protest now, it is rather too late. A country that looks at a plain Jane (Sarah Jessica Parker, anyone?) and call her "stunning", "drop-dead gorgeous" must not complain when regular reality TV show stars become big news because they can take selfies. A country that promotes an obsession with the life of its public figures should not complain when that obsession is applied to someone who can take off her clothes, lie on a pile of dirt and have her husband 's approval while being photographed in that 'attire'. When top fashion critics look at a pile of beef on a woman's body and call it 'avant-garde' instead of calling it what it is: a disgusting bacteria -inducing vomit of a animal parts that ought not to have left the butcher shop, then that society has lost the right to complain when Kylie Jenner pumps her lips and backside full of whatever the hell she damn well pleases.
Besides, talent never exempted anyone from being attacked in life, online and otherwise. Ask Serena Williams.
My point is this: hate the Kadarshian-Jenner family if you must. But for the right reasons. Lack of talent shouldn't be one of them. There are millions of people who don't have what you might call talent. Even they are entitled to make something of themselves.
If they choose to lose their soul in the process is another matter entirely.

3 THINGS REALLY SMART PEOPLE DON'T SAY OUT LOUD

1. Marriage is not a bed of roses.
Correction: LIFE is not a bed of roses. Marriage might not be easy but challenges abound for the married and unmarried alike.

2. Age Is Nothing But A Number.
Correction: Numbers are not nothing. They are so important that with just Zero and One, you can virtually run the planet. It's called binary.

3. The Glass Is Either Half-Full Or Half-Empty.
Correction: The Glass Is ALWAYS Full. Just because you can't see air doesn't mean it's not there. Any smart person knows that air is never empty. So even a glass devoid of liquid is full.

5 fun ways to explain science so your child can understand (and subsequently fall in love with science)

1. Fluid Mechanics & Archimedes's Floatation Principle: Fill a bathtub with water and explain that if she were to sit in that bathtub, you can tell how much she weighs. Curiosity piqued, (because she wants to know how Daddy got so smart) you can then ask her to sit on the tub, carefully displacing the water as she does so. Collect the displaced water, weigh it and you should have her weight in kilograms or pounds, depending on your country 's metric system. She will be highly impressed by your intellect (who knew Daddy hung the moon after all) and you will have her attention long enough to explain Archimedes's Floatation Principle and the enchanting way the scientist himself tried to take a bath and had a sterling breakthrough, so profound the poor dude lost his man and ran into the streets naked. Why do we always get out best ideas in the toilet, huh?
2. Exothermic Reaction: While doing laundry, your child will almost as try to help. By getting in your way, throwing down the box of detergent, emptying bleach on coloured clothes and setting the washing machine to 'destroy'. Engage your young one by using the all-time favourite trick: wet one of his palms. Put some detergent in it and ask him to close his palm. Ask him if it's warm or cold. He will say warm (or some more creative word to that effect). Explain to him then that a chemical reaction has taken place in his palm. The wet palm and the dry detergent produced heat in what is called an exothermic reaction. This release of heat (he might not be able to say 'exothermic' for now) occurs also when the trash is not taken out for long and is allowed to sit there. The only drawback now is that you have to fight harder to keep him out of the laundry room, harder to keep him away from the detergent during laundry or when you're housecleaning. But the hardest fight might be keeping him out of the trash. He might want to see for himself, this heat release, this exothermic reaction.
3. Energy Conductors & Temperature Difference Between Objects: Luckily you can distract him with point number 3. Every parent knows the angst of telling a child repeatedly to wear shoes. Growing up, my mother got exasperated and bought all four of her children shoes with straps and buckles; shoes you couldn't take off yourself. She wanted your feet shod at all times because you never know when there's a broken glass on the floor, a pin my elder brother left there because he was making his 7th telephone for the day or when I spilled my drink and left it for my.younger sister to trip on it and earn a broken arm. To make wearing protective soles interesting for your child, do this. Explain the scientific principle of conductors and none conductors of electricity. Take him to the living room. Have him place one foot on the bare cold floor and the other foot on the rug. Ask him "do you know why the floor is so cold but the rug is warm even though you're standing in the same room?'. To which, he will say no. Then you can explain thus: the human body (i.e) his body is full of energy and allows energy to flow through it. As well as the floor but the floor has less energy than his body. So when his feet touches the floor, the floor quickly collects some of the heat in his feet away. But if he were to stand on the rug in the living room, the floor won't be able to connect to his feet because the rug is a non-conductor. The rug protects his feet from the floor. When he understands this, take it further. Tell him his shoes are like the rug, only mobile. So if he wears his shoes, his energy will be protected from the floor just as the rug protected him in the living room. This is also the same reason he can't touch wires, hot pots and fire without a non-conductor (if he's old enough to hold understand the risk). Still, keep all harmful objects out of reach of children.
4. The Brain's Biochemical Triggers: Hunger is a permanent event in a child's life. It's a great way to teach even greater science. Here goes: say she's hungry and wants to eat. While you prepare her meal, you can strike up a conversation asking if she knows why she's hungry.
You: why are you hungry now even though you had breakfast this morning?
She: (be prepared for a hilarious, hunger-induced answer)
You: Do you know that it's your brain that's hungry and not your stomach?
She: (with disbelief ) my Brain?! How? I feel hungry in my stomach.
Then as you set down the plate of lunch in front of her, you can proceed to paint a picture of the glorious demanding master called the Brain who has first dibs on the energy in the body, especially the glucose. So when the energy level is down, the Brain presses the hunger alarm in the body and then her stomach begins to feel hunger. The Brain is the master that determines when the energy level in the body is low and sets off the hunger she feels.
Be prepared, however. The next time she's hungry, she might inform you that her 'Brain is hungry'.
5. How A Steam Engine Works: Inform your child you and she are to have a fun experiment together. Get her a lab coat, a thermometer, some goggles, a notepad and her crayons (or pencil if you prefer). Wear the same thing with her. Tell her you're going into the laboratory then take her by the hand to the kitchen. Take a selfie before commencing (which you will print and stick on the fridge later with the inscription 'world's best scientists').
Next, have her fill a pot with water from the sink and put it on the gas cooker / stove. Let her take the temperature of the water and note it down together. Light the fire and start a timer with her phone or stopwatch. As the water begins to boil, stick the thermometer in and take the temperature of the water again. Note it down. Then cover the pot back and tell her to watch the lid. Very soon, it will begin to rise. That's what you've been waiting for to explain. Measure the temperature of the steam and then note it down together. Then, ask her why she thinks the lid of the pot is rising. Listen to her answers. Children are smart and she may glean it has something to do with the difference in temperatures as shown by the thermometer.
Make it fun by linking it to a character on TV: Incredible Hulk. Explain that at room temperature, water cannot do much to lift the lid. But at boiling point, it has been transformed like Incredible Hulk and can now lift things it couldn't lift before. You're explaining a ton of scientific facts here: change of state in liquids, heat capacity, and how steam engines work. But your child will not remember those by tomorrow. She will remember however, that steam is water with muscles.

Look for creative ways to explain the wonders of life and especially science to the little ones. There's a marked decline in enthusiasm in schools because teachers need to make science fun, memorable but above all, what can be easily understood.

IF GOD IS GOOD, THEN I NEED ANOTHER DEFINITION OF GOOD. A STORY

It begins from childhood. They scold you when you query: who's his father?
They shut you up and tell you he has no father. He's the father. He has no beginning. He has no end. And so it begins; your bewilderment that endures and is unsatisfied with weak answers.
You learn to stuff it away but the inconsistencies keep bobbing up like a helium balloon under water.
Who did Cain marry? Shh.
If God forgives all sin, why doesn't he forgive Satan? Shh
What did the lion's eat on Noah's ark? How did the insects get on the boat? Shh
If children are an inheritance. Why do harlots abort their children while Hannah's womb was shut up by God? Shh
Why was Esau hated? The poor boy was hairier than a goat! Shh.
Why does God make bets with Satan to kill ten children of his most faithful follower just to prove a point? Shh
If God hates liars why did he send a lying spirit into the mouth of his prophets?
If God is not partial why was he slain for helping the cart while David was spared for a plethora of sins?
How can a witch raise Samuel from the dead?
If my sins separate me from God and make him not to hear me, how does he speak with Satan?
If God knows the beginning from the end why does he need to test people to see what's in their heart.
We all have questions that bother us but shh is the reply to all of it.
Well, there comes a time in an adult's life when shh is no longer sufficient. That is the moment when extremists bomb a church even though the Bible said there shall no evil befall them.
That is the moment when Dylan Roof guns 9 people down in cold blood but he who's in the presence of two and three that are gathered in his name folds his arms and does nothing.
It is that moment when a woman finds out her baby has been violated by her husband for 6 months but the angels of the God she's been praying to did nothing to prevent the abuse.
It is the moment my sister's body was lowered in the grave despite her faith and my family's.
Don't question God, they scold you. He's good all the time.
Well if there's a God that allows ISIS to slit the throats of dozens on camera and does nothing, then I need another definition of the word good.
If there's a God that watches the baby-making factories in eastern Nigeria happen so that those babies can be ripped apart for rituals while women, good women are being branded witches because their wombs have been shut up, then I need another definition of good.
If there's a God that created sin, Satan and the forbidden fruit exists, then I need another definition of good.
And that God, that makes a bet with his enemy like a gambler in a casino with the lives of ten human beings that are children of the most perfect man on all the east, then dear faithful, I say, don't shh me. I simply need another definition of good.

WHEN NUMBERS HAVE PERSONALITIES

Do you have OLP? This is a condition where you assign personalities to numbers and other inanimate objects. I have advanced OLP, it seems. Here are how I see the numbers from 0 to 9.

1 is the gentleman who's intelligent, suave and wears Tom Ford. He knows the difference between a pocket square and a cravate. His level of success is unrivalled and can't be reached by anyone. He's number one after all. If he was rich, he'd be the first on Forbes List. If he played tennis, he'd beat Nadal & Federer. If he was a planetary body, he'd be the sun.

2 is the uber fashionable lady who never cusses, is an ideal mother and can have an intelligent conversation with a Nobel prize winner.

3 runs her own company, wears 6 inches heels and doesn't suffer fools gladly. She's her father's pet, headstrong and dates multiple men at once (and breaks their hearts) because it's not her fault that she's hot.

4 is a nice guy. Quiet and unassuming, you never see him coming because people mistake his introverted nature for shyness. He is chivalry personified. He is book smart, not street smart. He is either a maths whizkid on Wall Street or he assembles nuclear weapons as a nuclear scientist. He loves his mother and his daughter.

5 is a rogue. He's rugged. Not traditionally handsome but he's got serious swag and he's a notorious player. A serial procrastinator, he manages to cover his cruelty with charm and wit. He's the guy to call in when you need to rig an election or win the heart of a hard-to-get woman.

6 is a nerd. He knows how the sun works and if you give him enough time, he will calculate and calibrate the way to Heaven and Hades. He is almost antisocial and a bit timid. Don't mess with his food, though. And his tech. He has all the gadgets and electronics that has ever been made and will ever be made before they are made because he bloody well made it himself!

7 is a military strategist. If he's on your team, the other army should gaan dig their graves. He has the highest IQ of all the numbers and he is cold blooded in the execution of his plans. A perfectionist, you can never catch him unprepared or untidy. He's a chef, in great shape and is a painstaking excellent lover. Doesn't particularly care for animals, doesn't need to read to pass exams and if he was immortal, he'd be Zeus.

8 is curvy. She's sexy in a way that makes the goddesses of beauty want to smother her to death. But she's humble, a great chess player and a bad cook. Her men don't care. When you're as sexy as she is, it's a sin to learn how to pound yam.

9 is a political genius, who rides a horse, owns a gun and smokes Malboro. She is the President of a country and has a charity for the blind.

0 is the ultimate enigma. He runs the universe. He swallowed the sun. He ate diamonds for breakfast and drank the rivers as a cocktail. If zero is on your team, your 5 Naira becomes 5 trillion Naira because he can multiply himself as many times as he wants and change any number to whatever he wants. Everyone wants to be zero.

Is there anyone with OLP reading this? Let me hear your version of the personalities of numbers, colours or other inanimate object