Compassion for the Collective
Understanding the need of compassionate behaviour for a prosocial community You are on a zoom call, near the end of a long day spent in front of your laptop screen, and the person on the other end appears to have…
Publications
Helping health startups take their ideas to market
“We want to bring about a paradigm shift in the startup investment space, push for legislation to support startups and build more innovation hubs and incubators,” says Robert Karanja, Villgro Africa’s cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer. Villgro Africa is a…
Man vs machine: The opportunities and fear of AI
There is such a thing as robophobia — an anxiety disorder defined by the irrational fear of technological advances in robotics, which encompasses drones, robots and artificial intelligence (AI). As Baun et al. noted, the underlying fear is that of artificially intelligent…
The Importance of Noise
On the role of uncertainty in evolution, markets, neuroscience, and AI The world is unpredictable in many ways. This has been the natural state of affairs for all living beings fighting an uphill battle for survival within an ever-evolving world.…
Visualizing Biology and the Ever-Evolving Woes of a Traditional Life Scientist
When I first started work on my doctoral degree, a project skirting the lines of neuroscience and molecular genetics, I had a mild idea of what I wanted from the science I was about to pursue and what I was…