Peter Muturi

Fun fact: Minoxidil was originally developed to treat stomach ulcers. Yep, you read that right. It was developed to treat and cure stomach ulcers, but testing showed no success. They discovered it could open blood vessels and improve blood flow instead, so they F*ed around and tried it as a treatment for hypertension. While being used as an oral medication, hair growth emerged as an unexpected side effect. Patients reported it to doctors, and scientists F*ed around with it again. They repurposed it for a topical hair growth treatment, tested it, and found it worked well with fewer systemic side effects. The exact way minoxidil stimulates hair follicles isn’t 100% clear even today. It is one of the most successful accidental discoveries in medicine.

The ending of Requiem for a Dream is without a doubt the most traumatizing in cinema history.

To put it simply, Kelly: The West sabotages countries that threaten the extraction. Singapore had nothing to extract. The West sabotages countries that inspire dangerous ideas about structural change. Singapore's model is not replicable at scale and Lee Kuan Yew was careful to never frame it as a universal template for the Global South. The West sabotages countries whose leaders build coalitions across the developing world that could collectively challenge the rules of the system. Lee Kuan Yew built no such coalition. He was famously contemptuous of Third World solidarity movements and non-aligned politics. Remove yourself as a threat on all three dimensions simultaneously and you get room to operate. The cost of that room is that you are not a threat on all three dimensions simultaneously. Singapore got its developmental state. It did not get, and did not try to get, a world in which other countries could also build one. That is the price Lee Kuan Yew paid for the West's tolerance. Whether it was worth it is a question Singapore never had to answer. The countries that tried to answer it differently paid a very different price.

This speech will go down as one of the best written and spoken by Jeff Daniel. These words are as important and as relevant today as when he said them.

@wmnjoya I hate how you pump some sense in. Origins well put out Nikajua kuna time nikiwa student unaachiwa blood transfusion unit na the paid staff ashaishia. All in the guise ati you are studying heh!!

This is how the "half-baked graduates" narrative by #githerimedia pays off. They convince Kenyans that the schools taught them nothing, then they work for employers for free. This is why, for all the faults of the education system, you will never hear me repeat that line that our employment problems come from school system or the syllabus. Never. #CBCisheretostay #MaishaKazini

Sister Sage. She is supposed to be the smartest person in the world. But she makes little contribution to humanity, science, math, has no inventions. She is written to be a very skilled manipulator and can read people well. But that's about it

@0x_levy @kamauwaruhiu Privatisation really doesn't inject capital past the first round. The government usually takes the fault and keeps on bailing out e.g KQ. Some other companies do really well kama safcom na kengen.

The idea sounds good on paper. But full government ownership killed efficiency before. Look at the losses Kenya Power posted for years. Privatization brought capital, tech and better service. Yes, big players win more. That's how shares work. Mkulima gets something he never had. Government still earns billions in dividends yearly. The fix is better governance, not reversing everything. Chasing people won't build wealth.

If the government owned 100% of Kenya Power, Safaricom, KenGen, KCB, and Kenya Airways like they originally did, then they would not depend 100% on taxes. But they lied that they want Kenyans to have a slice of the cake. Mkulima with his 20k shares gets 20k yearly, while Ndindi Nyoro gets 40 million a year. Hawa watu tunafaa tukimbize hadi wawache viatu.

Cancer that developed in a tapeworm parasite inside a man metastasized to his organs like a human cancer and killed him. In a rare 2015 case (published in the New England Journal of Medicine), a man with advanced AIDS was infected with the dwarf tapeworm Hymenolepis nana. Due to his severely weakened immune system, cells from the tapeworm underwent malignant transformation — essentially becoming "parasite cancer." These tapeworm-derived malignant cells invaded his tissues, formed tumors in his lungs, lymph nodes, liver, and other areas, metastasized through his body, and caused his death. It was the first documented case of a parasite's cancer spreading to and killing a human host.

Share a medical fact that would surprise most people💡

Very horrible and pointless to have

@AIRTEL_KE Your Internet connection especially from 7 to 10pm connecting at a maximum speed of 1mbps is getting in handy.

This is Kenya

Magura River, Nyandarua Ranges

Hi, @DonaldTrump . Iran has just installed a new supreme leader, Ayatollah Maheni

The man who wrote "How to Save Your Marriage" in the U.S.? He shot his wife... and posted the photo on Facebook. Dale Carnegie - the legend behind "How to Win Friends and Influence People"? He died completely alone. Benjamin Spock, who sold millions of books on parenting? His own sons tried to put him in a nursing home. Maria Montessori, the world- famous teacher? She gave her own son away to foster care, so she could dedicate herself to other people's children. And a Korean author who wrote the bestseller "How to Be Happy"? She hanged herself, after years of depression. What does this tell us? That the people writing self-help manuals... often couldn't save themselves. Coaches. Gurus. Trainers. Influencers. They sell answers to life. They were just as lost as everyone else. Maybe even more.

Let me explain my perspective on what love is: Love is sacrificing self so that another person can be. Think of a parent foregoing life pleasantries so that the children can live. Think of that mother who saves her child by getting herself to die instead. Think of that father who confronts a lion so that the family can escape. Those of the solder who withstands bombs so that his nation and his people can be.Think of the story of Jesus and the claim that he died so that others can be saved. Love is selfless sacrifice without expecting anything in return, so that someone else can live. When conditions start propping up and when sacrifices transform to “business transactions and trading”, love evaporates fast. The hardest part in understanding that love is why the sacrifice and why some do it and others don’t . Nobody knows the answer.

A therapist once told me: The first sign of declining mental health isn't always a panic attack or sudden tears. It starts quietly.Waking up tired after hours of sleep.Gut issues. Low energy. Feeling lost. Struggling to fall asleep.Forgetting things. Hair loss. Skin flare-ups. Muscle aches.Pulling away from people.Arguing with the ones you love.Not being able to get out of bed.Watching friendships fade.Your body whispers before it screams. There's still time to listen.

Peak male life experiences; 1. First heartbreak 2. First great sex 3. Watching someone you helped hit a big win 4. Ending imposter syndrome 5. Finally understanding your Father 6. Owning your first car 7. Owning your first real estate property 8. Someone calling you “sir” and realizing they mean it with respect 9. Fixing something with your hands that once intimidated you 10. Sitting in silence after a major win, realizing you don’t need to prove anything anymore 11. A younger man seeking your advice and recognizing yourself in him. 12. Accepting the man in the mirror 13. Randomly realizing this is the woman you will marry 14. Becoming successful with your childhood friends 15. Sports team winning a title 16. Watching your kid grow 17. Giving back to your parents What else would you add?

God made heart disease. Man made pacemakers. God made cancer. Man made cancer treatment. God made disease-causing germs. Man made vaccines. God made inborn calorie cravings. Man made diet plans. God made sunburn. Man made sunscreen. God made sickle-cell disease. Man made bone marrow transplant. God made low life expectancy. Man doubled that life expectancy. God made religious wars. Man man the Declaration of Human Rights. God made evil. Man tried to make sense out of that evil. God made a world full of pain, misery, and sorrow. Man made efforts to clean it up. God made hell fire. Man made efforts to make the world a better place. But most importantly, GOD IS NOT REAL. MAN IS REAL. <<>>