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Which Came First? The Egg or the Chicken
An age-old riddle, a viral reel, and what the science actually says. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. Theodosius Dobzhansky The question that refuses to die Some questions are…
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Top and Popular Stories of 2025 — Annual Review
“Looking back at twelve months of ink, suspense, reflection, and the stories that anchored our year.” Time flies indeed. When we closed the books on calendar year 2025, the analytics revealed a fascinating mosaic…
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Top 10 Most Read Stories of 2026 So Far
“It is almost seven years since I published the first story on this blog. I still get a special feeling each time the numbers show that an old story has found a new reader.”…
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The Voynich Manuscript: A Book No One Can Read
The Unexplained Files, Post 03 Six hundred years old. More than a century of modern decoding attempts. Generations of cryptographers, linguists, medievalists and, lately, computers trained to notice patterns that human eyes miss. Still,…
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Loose Ends — Chapter 49: For the Bread
By March, lives tentatively rebuild across Lagos and Oxford, while pregnant Karo begins another campaign.
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Loose Ends — Chapter 48: Neither House Second
Sarah tells her sons about divorce and Oxford, finding hope within their painful family transition.
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Loose Ends — Chapter 47: Bread in the Shade
Folasade joins Mama Bolu, confronts shared complicity, and waits for Karo while they share bread.
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Loose Ends — Chapter 46: The Door Left Open
Tobe regains her job and deletes stolen leads; Dara cautiously reopens her home to Felix.
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Loose Ends — Chapter 45: The Eleventh Rehearsal
Mr. Briggs confronts his prejudiced misconduct, rehearses an unfamiliar apology, and telephones Tobe that afternoon.
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Loose Ends — Chapter 44: The Next House
Felix surrenders his surveillance evidence, accepts possible prosecution, and warns that Karo always plans escapes.
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Loose Ends — Chapter 43: A Complaint, A Little
Tobe and Dara decline prosecution while Inspector Danjuma traces Karo’s calculated disappearance and drug theft.
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Loose Ends — Chapter 42: The House He Left
Sammy accepts Sarah’s departure, confesses to his mother, and recognises Karo’s exploitation with belated compassion.