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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder~ Rumi

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇲🇽 A MEXICAN TEENAGER BUILT A FIRE EXTINGUISHER THAT USES SOUND INSTEAD OF WATER OR CHEMICALS

A student created “Vortex Tech,” a portable prototype that uses low-frequency sound waves around 30 Hz to disrupt the air feeding small flames.

In tests, it put out small fires in roughly 5 to 8 seconds.

She built it with her adviser and uncle after getting inspired by a sonic-cannon concept.

It’s still an experimental prototype for small fires, but a teenager from Mexico turned bass into a fire extinguisher 😮

Writer: Sol

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o understood it with absolute clarity.

You do not need chains if you have classrooms.

You do not need to physically prevent a people from imagining their own freedom if you have already shaped the language in which they think.

If the colonized child learns to read in the colonizer’s language.

If the colonized child learns that the "great books" were written in the colonizer’s language.

If the colonized child learns that the history worth knowing begins with the colonizer’s arrival.

If the colonised child learns that success, sophistication, education itself, is measured by proximity to the coloniser’s standards:

That child does not need to be imprisoned.

That child will imprison themselves.

Will measure themselves against a standard designed to find them lacking.

Will work their entire life to approximate an ideal that was never constructed to include them.

Will call this effort "self-improvement."

The classroom was the most elegant instrument the colonial project ever designed.

More durable than any fort.

More effective than any army.

Because armies are visible. Forts can be stormed.

But a belief installed in childhood, in the voice of a teacher, in the language of learning itself, that is nearly invisible.

And what you cannot see, you cannot dismantle.

[WARÚHIÚ @kamauwaruhiu]

Hii dunia Iko na watu wa ajabu , Leo nimebeba mzee Fulani hapo kwambira on my way home , he sees my car and knows my route . I always keep a water bottle in my car juu ya exercise , jamaa amechukua akaaza kunyonya I was speechless 😨😨. Reminds me of one time my cousin came to visit me nikampata aki brush meno na tooth brush yangu not a care in the world.
What am I saying? No matter how obvious the instructions might be please read them out loud . Sasa kama jamaa mwenye alifanyia Karen nyamu ukarabati ya kcse certificate,did they think it was important to say . "Do not go on national television and admit that we have forged a certificate for you " . I bet he wishes he did .
This world is populated by idiots strategically distributed so that you can meet at least one a day .

[wilam8🇰🇪 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 @wilammunene]

The sun does not hurry across the sky, yet it completes its journey every day; learn patience from the things that endure.

[Kiswili Cyprian @kharsh_art]

Hi I’m Kiswili !
You’ve doom scrolled your way into my art. Enjoy 😎

[joycekuria? @JoyceKuria_42]

Hello, I'm Joyce Kuria. You've doom scrolled your way into my art. Enjoy! 🫶

[WESTINDIMADE @westindimade]

😩Daddy daughter time with Vybz Kartel, dancehall global 🤣

[BUZZ WIRE @BuzzWireBW]

A Kenyan man has called out outdated and corrupt systems he says are blocking new inventions, while showcasing his i-clump invention which he believes will bring transparency and help end corruption in the country.

[Scrum Shutter Africa @ScrumShutter]

Once upon a time, Kenya Shujaa had the Buffalo. Enjoy!

#Scrumshutter

[Wamutahi @Son_of_Laikipia]

Atī rīu athuuri aa kīama marīambaga kūūtambūrūkia handū ha gwītambūrūkia.

[Mzee Kobe 🐝 @mzee_ki]

I've seen so many ads and I honestly can't remember the last time I saw an ad that was this good.🙌

[Mary Kathomi @MaryK2022]

Transfer of culture is very important

[Mamba Creatives @MambaCreatives]

I’m Mamba a thread artist based in Kenya here are some of my work hope you love them,thank you ,I appreciate so much 🥹❤️

[Mocking 🐦 @Te_N06]

Wamunuri anatambua Sir Jah🫡🫡the optisim apa is unmatched alafu he tops it off with that song ya Muigai🔥

[MxM @Mukurima]

George Njoroge nearly left school to earn money. In 2011, the United States approved a new medicine for hepatitis C, which Njoroge helped develop

George grew up watching his grandmother prepare medicine in Kamuchege, a village outside Nairobi. For some remedies, she boiled roots in water. For others, she warmed plants in oil. People came to her because they trusted what she knew.

She had never attended school. George, whom she raised from the age of three, sometimes had no shoes. It would have been hard to imagine him one day working in an American laboratory, trying to design a medicine for a virus that had defeated researchers for years.

At Thika High School, that future almost ended before it began. Njoroge loved biology, but his family needed money. He planned to finish school and find work instead of taking the advanced courses required for university. When two teachers learned what he intended, they offered to help pay for him to continue.

He stayed, though he had no settled plan to become a chemist. On a school trip to a marine park, he met a game warden with Land Rovers and glass-bottomed boats. The job appealed to him enough that he went to the University of Nairobi to study subjects that might lead him there.

Organic chemistry changed his mind. He learned how scientists could make molecules that interfered with a disease at a precise point. He also began to understand what he had seen at home: his grandmother’s water and oil preparations drew different substances from the plants she used. Her knowledge had come through practice rather than a laboratory, but he could see the chemistry in it.

Njoroge graduated at the top of his class and won a scholarship to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. America was a difficult adjustment. He missed Esther, his girlfriend in Kenya. The winter was harsh, and an early quantum chemistry class made him wonder whether he should have left Nairobi. Esther later joined him and they married in 1987. He also completed his doctorate.

A research job at Schering-Plough in New Jersey gave him the chance to make medicines. He worked first on cancer drugs, then joined a team trying to treat hepatitis C. The virus can quietly damage a person’s liver for years. Treatments available at the time helped some patients, but many remained ill.

Isitoshe,

The researchers focused on an enzyme the virus needed to reproduce. If a drug could attach to it, they might stop the virus from making new copies of itself. Njoroge had designed molecules to interfere with a similarly specific process in cancer research. Hepatitis C presented a nastier problem: the enzyme’s surface was so shallow that a medicine struggled to get a grip. Njoroge compared it, laughing, to the Kalahari Desert.

His team kept working on the molecule. It took fifteen years. In 2011, the FDA approved the result: boceprevir, sold as Victrelis, the first oral hepatitis C protease inhibitor. Patients took it with existing medicines, and the combined treatment improved their chances of clearing the virus.

Victrelis has since been replaced by shorter, more effective treatments. Its place in the story remains: Njoroge and his colleagues helped show that hepatitis C could be attacked directly.

Another molecule he developed for cancer was later found to help children with progeria, a rare disease that causes premature aging.

May the the day break

[Gichuki Kahome @kahome_steve]

How much money do you need to earn KES 50,000 a month in passive income in Kenya?

It depends entirely on where you put it:

a) Infrastructure bond at 13% (tax-free): KES 4.6M

b) Dividend king like BAT at 13% yield (after 5% tax): KES 4.9M

c) 364-day T-bill at 9.04% (after 15% tax): KES 7.8M

d) Money market fund at ~9% (after 15% tax): KES 7.8M

e) Rental property at 6% yield (after 7.5% rental tax): KES 10.8M

f) Bank savings account at 3.54%: KES 19.9M

Same KES 50K a month. Choosing a bank savings account over an IFB means you need 4x more capital.

This is why where you save matters as much as how much you save.

What’s your monthly passive income target? 👇

[Tamir & Tadilat @TamirveTadilat]

3 boyutlu (3D) geometrik duvar boyama işlemi.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Seven week old puppies already have the instinct to herd.

[📹 Helen Neil Mcdonald]

[lewis kamau @lewi254]

https://t.co/PZywr0MKcv

[IG: olesoul57.2 ♉️ 5/12 @olesoul57_2]

Body just never wants to cooperate 😩