You’ll forgive us for interrupting your rants on trivial matters such as, for example, the next rental property or, even worse, the massacres in the Middle East. Here the world is burning and we haven’t gotten the memo!!! Just at 4 PM on the past January 16th, we were randomly confronted with the terrifying question: what can you do with 380 million Higgs bosons; Because (we know) you think that “Higgs bosons” are euros or dollars, so there’s a jackpot in some lottery and whoever wins 380 million of them has solved their life’s problems, well then, you’re in deep…

If you’re confused by your feelings, here’s some good (?) news: researchers from the renowned Berkeley have identified 27 categories of emotions: admiration, adoration, aesthetic appreciation, amusement, anger, anxiety, awe, awkwardness, boredom, calmness, confusion, craving, disgust, empathetic pain, entrancement, excitement, fear, horror, interest, joy, nostalgia, relief.…

We don’t (want to) talk about it… Six full years have passed since the Great Threat—the Sars-Cov-2—has “struck” nearly all aspects of life for hundreds of millions of passengers on this planet. Six whole years later, it either feels like a century or has been pushed aside like a bitter, painful memory: we don’t want to talk about it (while we can talk about any small or big piece of nonsense). Meanwhile, this “killer virus,” and indeed various naturally mutated, evolved, that is, more transmissible variants of it, continues to circulate. It circulates just as it would have in 2020,…

In early January, the american state of Utah implemented a federal law that was passed in the spring of 2025, which redefines who has the authority to sign pharmaceutical prescriptions.…

The latest step in the discussions that began in July 2023 regarding the deregulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Europe took place on January 28, 2026, when the relevant proposal was voted in favor of in the “Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee” (ENVI) of the European Parliament. This vote followed the approval of the proposal by the EU Council on December 16, 2025, and the process still has several steps to go within the complex bureaucracy of the EU until final approval and legislation of the proposal, which only causes headaches for anyone trying to follow and…

“Millions of lives will be saved!” When was the last time you heard this “promise”? When the mRNA platforms (the manufacturing companies, that is) opened wide the door for genetic intervention in living organisms in real time.…

It is easy to imagine a version of the human species that would not know any of the “luxuries” (or burdens) of high technology, from the humblest cars to smart phones. There are, moreover, still people alive who have memories from such “primitive” times. Less easy but certainly feasible is to imagine a life without high (or not so high) art, without theaters, opera and cinemas, perhaps even – even without music. At the limits of the imaginably feasible is also the case of “human societies” without linguistic ability. What in any case one cannot conceive is the case of…

We say that so-called “smartphones” have become remote controls for everyday life – to the point of criminality. At the same time, manufacturing companies periodically warn their customers that these “remote controls” are being monitored behind the users’ backs:…

The following article was published on October 13, 2023, in the Chinese Social Sciences review, signed by Zhang Shuqin (associate professor at the School of Sociology and Psychology at the Central University of Finance and Economics) and Song Qingyu (postdoctoral candidate at the School of Public Administration at Hosei University).The two authors acknowledge certain consequences of generalized datopification (in Chinese society); however, they consider them a positive development. The only thing they regard as potentially negative is the prospect that people will stop relating to one another in the (old…) natural way.It is interesting for cyborgs (we assume also for…