Category Science
Forget them puzzles and games
Goodbye Professor.
This Friday I was informed that a member of my research group at Imperial and a friend, Professor Patrick Purcell passed away. I last saw him this past December while visiting London and, despite our efforts, we did not manage to meet, but for a few minutes in some corridor at the university. Our meeting […]
Exploring Life Extension
An almost 2 hour film by the Immortality Institute on, you guessed it, immortality, or if you prefer a more politically correct term, ‘Life Extension’. I won’t comment on it at length, as it is a vastly complex matter, both socially, technologically, scientifically and philosophically. The film also includes a section dealing with breaking away […]
We need new policies to face a new reality
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The return of TB?
A couple of years ago, I went through a phase of my life where I watched innumerable documentaries over the course of a few months. One of the documentaries was PBS’ 2001 documentary series, Evolution. In one episode of that series, there was some mention of the threat by multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB. In the documentary, […]
Infinity
Βιοκαύσιμα στην Ευρώπη.
Νωρίτερα φέτος, έγραψα (και εδώ δείτε τη πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα διάλεξη του Vinod Khosla) για την πρώτη άμεση αλλαγή που θα βιώσουμε τα επόμενα χρόνια στις ζωές μας, στα πλαίσια μιας κοινής Ευρωπαϊκής πολιτικής για το περιβάλλον. Στα άρθρα αυτά, καθώς και στην ομιλία του Vinod Khosla, αναφέρεται η τεράστια επένδυση που έχουν κάνει κάποιες από […]