A Little Bit Human
Mission-Driven Nerdiness
In the early scenes of the Marvel blockbuster Black Panther, supervillain Erik Killmonger is seen surveying the African collection at the Museum of Great Britain. Killmonger corrects the exhibition’s patronizing white female curator about the origin of an axe. He says: “It was taken by British soldiers in Benin, but it’s from Wakanda. Don’t trip […]
The year was 2005. Caroline Elkins, a Harvard Historian, had just come to prominence with a book titled Britain’s Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya. The book chronicled the atrocities that the British colonial empire had committed in pre-independence Kenya. It was a tale of systematic violence involving detention camps, heavily patrolled villages, […]
Chances are you know a little something about the family of one Alexander Hamilton. Regarded as one of America’s “founding fathers”, Hamilton’s life and legacy were brought into the spotlight in 2015 with the opening of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster musical Hamilton: An American Musical. Based on historian Ron Chernow’s novel Alexander Hamilton, the much-lauded production […]
Chances are that you’ve heard someone reference Schrodinger’s cat at one point or another. Perhaps you’ve been reading on Reddit about why Schrodinger’s cat appears in the Rick and Morty episode “A Rickle in Time”. Regardless, if you don’t have any idea what Schrodinger’s cat is, don’t worry, you’re not alone. While people like to […]
Mark Moran, co-creator of Weird NJ, once described Clinton Road, New Jersey as a “dark highway into people’s innermost fears”. In the 2019 movie Clinton Road, actor Ice-T said about Clinton Road, “Man, that shit is dark, that place is evil. Do not go there.” What is it about this mysterious stretch of pavement through […]
The Oyo Empire was the largest Yoruba empire in pre-colonial West Africa, located in the Savannah below the bond of the river Niger in Bussa-Jebba region of southwest Nigeria. It occupied most of the states between the Volta River in the west and the Niger River in the east. The establishment of the empire was […]