The Pandemic is over! WHO had declared the Covid 19 pandemic to be over. Great! We can now forget about the past three gruelling years of health and social and economic challenges. We have survived it, let’s just move on. I think NOT. Before we get back to our old ways of socializing and the […]
‘What is Life’ – a concise Summary of E. Shrodinger’s book, including my comments. I think Shrödinger is saying that life and the life processes that support life are deterministic. By that, he means non-random, mechanical in the sense that life and the life-supporting processes (such as metabolism) are processes that are ordered, reproducible and […]
It is time to pause and reflect on our covid 19 strategy I am a retired scientist, I am pro-vaccine, I had my 2 shots and a booster and am grateful for that. Still, looking back at the last two years of the pandemic I am uneasy. I see potential problems with the vaccine design, […]
A call for a territorial compromise in the Ukraine war We in the West are horrified by the brutal and unjust war that Russia had launched against Ukraine and support Ukraine militarily and economically. But how long and to what end are we prepared to do so, how many more lives of Ukrainian (and Russian) […]