The Event 201 simulates the outbreak of a new coronavirus of animal origin that is transmitted from bats to swine and eventually manages to be transmitted from human to human, …
Fear is the best medicine (of the system)
Hygiene phobias (of all scales and intensities) are a direct expression of fears related to ablebodiedness, youth and death. For a (measured!) century now, (eternal) youth and immortality have been …
Counting beans
How many people make a “crowd”? Ten? Fifty? A hundred? Based on experience, we may be able to distinguish a crowd from a group of friends, but if no auxiliary …
The army as an infirmary
Certainly, the u.s. army hasn’t dressed up like a bat. The biological technologies office of notorious DARPA appears to be the heavy artillery of trumpistan -a.k.a. the land of the …
The unknown ancestor
It is certain that all humankind originated in Africa. It is also certain that our most recent genes are the result of interbreeding between the three versions of the original …
Delicate tasks
As for its looks, the german designed and IBM programmed CIMON-2 (the smiley plastic balloon on the left) does not claim any prizes. Though, it has a rich emotional (and …
Emergency button
It has (or it say it has) 50 million users/customers worldwide. Perhaps they are not many. The online matchmaking app Tinder, and its owner, deserves to celebrate this accomplishment, establishing …
Education at the threshold of the 4th industrial revolution
The education system as we know it is only about 200 years old. Before that, formal education was mostly reserved for the elite. But as industrialization changed the way we …
Digital yuan
Blockchain technology, which was created to allow the global movement of digital currencies by bypassing the control of central banks, has led to the creation of “cryptocurrencies” suitable only for …
Cold Fusion
For some, it represents the ultimate energy solution: a cheap energy source without environmental implications. The final (and, above all, practical) form of such a nuclear process does not appear …
The company knows… What about the state?
The (official) data show that the chinese government has managed to control the spread of the infection and then (as a result) the deaths from the steadily “weak” covid-19. The …
Besides, they constantly go off
Vermont is a peculiar state among the others of the u.s.a.. It is generally considered a progressive one (one of the presidential candidates for the DNC primary elections, Bernie Sanders, …