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Brent Goose in flight © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Wild Geese and waders in Essex

Birdwatching in Two Tree Island

Omicron variants have become predominant, causing as much as 98% of all new Covid-19 cases in the USA

Omicron subvariants' predominance

BA.1 and BA.2 are causing more infections but less severe symptoms of Covid-19

Some countries locking people up for being unvaccinated

I wanted to take Covid seriously

Try as I might, it just wasn’t working

The Web Summit 2022 in returned to Lisbon

Tech companies to watch out for

4 cool startups I found at the Web Summit

Green energy: a transition to renewable energy sources can provide both economic growth and ecological improvement

Building the new green republic

Individually and collectively, the ecological transformation is in our hands

The measurement of one strongly correlated particle has a direct effect on the other, regardless of the distance between them

Wormholes, tunnelling, and entanglement intertwined world

A scale-space description

Microbes can now be designed beyond traditional uses, through fermentation, to produce many other forms of proteins and flours

Eating microbes

Scientific breakthroughs offer myriad solutions to the global food crisis

Some distinguished scientists argue that one day it may be possible to replace the human mind with all its functions with a machine

Despite great optimism emulating the mind will not, almost certainly never, be possible

Breathing clean air: climate change impacts negatively on social and environmental determinants of health, such as air quality

Climate change intensifies health risks

Stronger public health systems and individual awareness are key to saving lives

Traditionally, ransomware spreads throughout a network

Ransomware attacks

Facts, prevention and response

The digital sector already produces much more C02 than aviation pre-covid

Reconciling 5G and sustainability in Brussels

A sensible policy for a regional government

Regular exercise is an example of primary prevention

Preventive healthcare

Three levels of prevention to improve wellbeing and reduce medical costs

Satellites: types include surveillance, weather, communications and military satellites used for spying

Omnipresent 'big eyes'

How long until mass surveillance destroys our freedom, privacy and democracy?

Boys are four times more likely than girls to be diagnosed with autism

Calming behavior in children with autism and ADD

A free, EMR-reduction protocol

Smart homes: home retrofits with the highest energy savings objectives are considered 'deep retrofits'

How to combat future energy price increases

Let's start with an energy diagnosis

Most flood-control dams were built to be reliable for about 50 years

Time to retreat

We built dams to protect us from danger; now many of them are the danger

Poincare was first to realize that there is no simple solution to the system of 3-body motion in Newtonian dynamics

On the limits of the deterministic description of motion

The uncertainty relation

Landscape of the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda

Rwanda: the country of the Big 5

One of the most beautiful countries in the world

The safe return of the first civilian orbit around the earth occurred in September 2021

Who is space for?

The commodification of the future

Polar futures is an alternative future that individually and collectively we must stop from unfolding

Three climate change futures

Could we be heading for a dystopian polar existence?

Managing employee cyber risk is essential for business

5 key security topics for 2022

A core security awareness training schema

Corbevax, a vaccine for everyone

The people's vaccine for global health

Without Big Pharma, patents, profits or taxpayer support

We should investigate the green spaces being planned for our neighborhoods and cities

Smart projects for smart people

Three sustainable initiatives for our homes, neighborhoods and cities

The social life of chimpanzees is very complex

Cognitive skills in chimpanzees

Chimpanzees possess Machiavellian political-social intelligence

Black-headed Gull first winter © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Gull watching in the London Wetland Centre

The changing plumages of gulls

Syria civil war

Telemedicine in the conflict

Protect your computer against possible infection

12 days of awareness

Usable security and safety tips for the holidays

People no longer greet each other by shaking hands and kissing

Freedom during the Covid-19 pandemic

Humans debate, while viruses mutate freely

Volunteering is a satisfying and fulfilling activity in healthcare and other sectors of the community

Voluntary work in the healthcare sector

The key to social and healthcare integration with immeasurable benefits to society

Problems such as COVID call for interdisciplinary strategies with unimpeded collaboration among scientists

Stop vacillating and vaccinate

Vaccinated against covid-19, but not alone in awaiting a booster

Robert Hinde (1923-2016)

In memory of Robert Hinde

A great scientist, his relations with psychiatry and commitments to peace

Electric vehicles require hundreds if not thousands of substances

Looking for due diligence with electric vehicles

Before anyone buys another one

Is the universe finite or infinite?

A scale-space approach to connectomes

The quantum nature of a cause and effect relation

Metformin is seen to be having an indirect effect on the aging process

Metformin and aging

Metformin currently shows promising effects against factors that promote aging

Competition over water use may lead to conflict

Water. A mysterious element of the Earth

Water problems affect about half of humanity and a great portion of the world's ecosystems

Criminals can use your personal information

Protecting your digital self

Minimizing your exposure over the Internet

In China’s pharmacology, poisons are widely used as healing properties

The alchemy of poisons

The art of healing in Chinese medicine

Many people are fooled because they are told things that they want to hear

The illusion of certainty

Fear and certainty are enemies of wisdom

For the first time, scientists have measured the electromagnetic radiation of commercial 5G (Bern, Switzerland)

Is the WHO impaired by electro-smog?

A commentary on regulating 5G radiation

It is almost impossible to know what kind of data will be gathered by drones all over the world

What we don't know about unmanned aerial vehicles

Small White backlit and with space for artistic effect © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Photographing nature for artistic use in book design

Techniques explained using London’s butterflies

Electric grid

Offering thanks for what sustains me

And a batch of questions

Early work on the reversibility of the second law of thermodynamics comes from William Sidis

An approach to quantum biology

Setting the numbers in motion

The failure of U.S. public healthcare system

Fixing the U.S. healthcare disaster

Healthcare cannot ever be a totally market-based system

Happiness is an emotion that is very sensitive to external stimuli

Happiness: universal function

Happiness makes free to conform only to himself and not to others

A considerable amount of the traffic generated over the Internet is made by bots

Internet is for “pron”

A huge empty place that is already ruled by “non-human” entities

Many people are being hospitalized and dying from Covid-19

Pandemic news: Covid-19 and influenza

A recent clinical trial on an experimental oral antiviral drug called molnupiravir produced promising results

Antennas

Who decides whether or not 5G is safe to deploy?

A protocol for ensuring safer infrastructure

Holographic representation

Multidimensional information scaling

Manifestation of the mind-body connection

Humans are facing such a time of multiple changes at all levels

Rebooting our human future

Adaptation is required to avoid threats to our life-support and even possible extinction

The key to the explanation of the birth of the cavernicular human culture could find an explanation in the social behavior of Chimpanzees

All animals search for shelter

There is an infinite variety of places to feel protected and to defend themselves from the dangers of nature

If we meet 2030 objectives to reduce CO2 emissions when producing electricity, ICT could still emit almost as much as aviation pre-Covid

Energy policies in the hyperconnected era

5G’s environmental paradox

Ransomware is the trendy threat nowadays

Bitcoin is burning us with napalm

Cryptocurrencies as the fuel of ransomware campaigns

One of the most important questions is how long are vaccines effective

Vaccine effectiveness, booster shots, breakthrough infections

The Bored Ape Yacht Club collection

Popularity of Non-Fungible Tokens explodes

Demand set to continue

Teachers felt somehow uneasy to recognize extra-talented children

Extra-talented children

They often don't get enough attention from teachers

Does good governance lead to better health outcomes?

Health governance: hype or help?

A look at what determines good governance in healthcare

Peacock at Chapel Bank © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Hutchinson’s Bank, London’s top butterfly hotspot

Butterfly watching on the outskirts of London

Global warming has changed our world

Salvaging the Anthropocene

The role we must play in restoring and protecting our world

Brazil burns

If Brazil burns what’s left of the Amazon, why hold COP26?

The Amazon rainforest plays a crucial role in regulating global oxygen and carbon cycles

How can we defend ourselves against cybercrime?

Information and cyber security

From the individual to the national governments

Stochastic resonance synergetic theory is an approach to the networked systems dynamics and computation

Multidimensional information flow

Quantum information theories and tunnelling, play a central role in the computing technologies

Chimpanzees are in really bad shape

Chimpanzees are in danger of extinction

Diseases and the destruction of their natural environment

Earth's resources are running out

The trinity of the inadmissible

The irresponsibility, the incompetence, the incapacity of the dominant system

Tsunami in the Mediterranean, a real risk

Mediterranean nuclear tsunami

A calamity is a time of opportunity

Vaccine against Covid-19

Inside the Covid-19 vaccine disagreement

Understanding both sides

Deepfake and photo manipulation

Deepfakes and the line between live and fiction

Should eyes be believing?

The movement of DNA in 3D

We are all closely related to each other

The only race is the human race

What is the effect of social media?

What is the impact of networks?

Social media and robotization

Perhaps this pandemic that worsens every day is a warning to be taken seriously

Covid, animals, and karma

Could this be the time to foot the bill?

Charging station for electric vehicles

Do we really want to replace gas cars with e-vehicles?

Calling for life cycle analysis of EVs: a report on nature and technology

Umberto Boccioni, The city rises

Attention, memories, behaviour

Moving via coordinate transformations

Vitamin D has many important roles in the prevention of the cancer

Vitamin D and antiaging

Unravelling of hidden secrets

Social media may have a negative impact on your life

The absolute banalization of reality

The saddest happiness in human history

The virus continues to mutate, producing new variants

The unvaccinated are dying from Covid-19

The delta variant is now the dominant strain in the USA and many other countries

Astronauts in the International Space Station regularly have to avoid catastrophic collisions with space debris

Satellite mega-constellations’ mega-threats

The rise of space junk and the fall of reason

Healthy aging increases the productivity of the population

The effectiveness of the health economy

The prescribed measure of lockdown helps reduce deaths

Letter to a concerned friend

We search for viable actions and solutions

Richard Feynman "spaghetti cut" problem stretches imagination on asymptotic freedom of movements, singularities, multidimensional scaling

Spaghetti problem

Multidimensional information, 5D projections, and spaghettification

M.C. Escher, Hand with reflecting sphere

Toward a theory of psychological impermanence

Theory and Epistemology

Minneriya has largest seasonally recurring gathering of elephants © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Elephants in Sri Lanka

Conflicts and conservation

Speculation about extraterrestrial presences has been around a very long time

UFO sightings are reported around the world every year

Why we should take extraterrestrial intelligence seriously

Saltwater agriculture

Time to rethink our technology choices!

Green investing goes mainstream globally

Creativity: a successful strategy to address the climate crisis

Climate: the creativity crisis

Climate crisis is the most daunting challenge ever confronted by humankind

What relationships do we men have with chimpanzees in particular?

The Primates are us

Since we became Homo sapiens, we denigrate all animals that are physically similar to us

Health is one of the most critical areas where society is trying to be better prepared

Fires: the survivors

Disaster medicine and disaster health

We live with an ever-decreasing level of privacy

Privacy might be already nonexistent

Or at least it doesn't exist in the way that it existed

At least 211 countries and territories have administered more than two billion doses of a Covid-19 vaccine

Chronic Covid-19 syndrome

The potential dangers of long-term Covid-19

The Venice Forum focused on the health of mothers and young children

Focusing on mothers and children for recovery after Covid

Where health meets economics and social justice

Artificial Intelligence provides us with a quantity of unimaginable data

The fourth technological revolution

Not everyone is setting eyes on it

The greed to minimize farming production expenses has dehumanised animal farming

Industrial animal farming

The problems are more than serious

Nobody knows how much a society should spend on health care

Is a rational health policy possible?

A functional approach

Bahía de Mochima, Venezuela

Doctor of the Venezuelan eastern seas

A Falcon 9 rocket can launch 60 Starlink satellites at a time

Satellite constellations to dominate the stars

To whom does it make sense?

Extraterrestrial life in the Universe

UFOs are here and here to stay

We are not alone

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