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 …
Your feelings…
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.
the industry of illness and its profitable institutionalization (a few more notes)
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 …
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.
digitalization and recording of the genome: the case of biopiracy
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 …
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.
our daily bread (the machine-produced one)
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 …
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:
digital technology encodes social relationships
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 …
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.
data: mine, factory … or?
The rather triumphant imposition of (the companies of) antisocial media and, subsequently, the enlightenment regarding neural algorithms has intensified over the past decade – always speaking relatively and mainly among …
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.