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.
Electronic, fully electronic prescription
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 internet of beings…
“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.
A good piece of espionage
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 Silicon Valley in arms
The 1 trillion dollars or 1.5 or whatever amount the American president distributes freely for the reconstruction of the american army is a powerful magnet. And the era (especially after the dynamic emergence of drones as precision artillery on the Ukrainian battlefield) fosters great expectations.
digital “mini womb”
A team of experts from China has created the world’s first mini-uterus on a chip that can fully reproduce the “implantation” of human embryos in the uterus during early pregnancy.
Technology in uniform
Even if someone hesitates to use the term “fascism” for the current, contemporary evolution of oligarchies toward absolutist regimes, they can no longer fail to see the application of Mussolini’s definition of fascism.
The improvement of the species…
“The world was shocked on November 25, 2018, when Chinese geneticist He Jiankui announced that he had used CRISPR technology to ‘correct’ the DNA of two embryos that had been conceived in vivo.”
Prohibited for minors!
Remember the circulation restrictions during the hygiene campaign? It was not an exception but rather a test of the state of exception that will be repeated in the not-so-distant future for various reasons.
Good grief!
The American Jim Farley, CEO of Ford, was alarmed: he visited various Chinese automotive industries and concluded that they will eliminate the American ones (only?;) if swift measures are not taken…
Digital record
On March 7, 2021, the citizens of the Swiss state went to a referendum to accept or reject an “electronic identity”. 64.4% rejected the government’s idea. But the issue was not put in the drawer.
Speaking machines
A 15th century tale, originating from Alfonso de Madrigal, a prolific 15th century commentator who enjoyed creating stories with moving statues in the Middle Ages, wants Albertus Magnus, a real person, a Dominican monk, theologian and philosopher who lived two centuries before Alfonso, in the 13th century, to have managed to compose a whole man out of metal.