The last three years have been quite unproductive for me. So I decided around August of 2020 to turn things around. With lockdown in full swing and the Pandemic having hit everyone. I figured now’s as good a time as any to get my shit together. …

Potholes. An all too familiar bane of every city, road, highway and transport infrastructure. They serve as either a temporary reminder of seasonal rains or as a constant one of a city’s state of affairs. People have had issues with potholes for as long as roads have existed. It isn’t…

Overall tone and topic of the book. This was my first audio book and I must say, I’m a fan of the method but it depends on how demanding the book is. I got lucky with selecting this book. Not too heavy on concepts over 252 pages, 19 chapters long using simple words except for terminologies, makes…

Everybody wants to be a Hero but nobody wants to put in the hours. Don’t get me wrong neither do I. I am simply unable to find the time between studying, learning a new language, working and keeping up relations to put on tight spandex and jump about rooftops swooping…

The overall tone of the book and what it’s about. In most books, the preface contains either the names of the author’s family or a few words of their gratitude/annoyance with close friends and dear ones. Not in Bad Science. Ben Goldacre decided to begin the book with the words “To whom it may concern”. Talk about setting the tone…

We Have Been Measuring Push-up Competitions Wrong. I’ve been a top-heavy, chunky boy for a while during my childhood. Although I am currently working on altering that, don’t worry this post isn’t about my journey to getting absolutely shredded (fingers crossed) it’s instead about something that I discovered on the way there. (To clarify I’m not there…

With wave after wave of the pandemic. Everyone’s world has been thrown into the doldrums. I figured it was a good time to try and begin picking up a new language. Come out slightly better off than I was going into this whole ordeal. So I took the plunge and…

It has come to my attention that one of the greatest geological tools available is our tongue. Yup, you read that right. There are geologists out there in the wild right now. Licking and nibbling on strange rocks. Remember when you ate sand in kindergarten? …