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A woman clutching at her sore throat with both hands as it could be due to a case of acid reflux

Acid reflux listed as most common cause of sore throat

The complications and the solutions

Humanity accepting the inclusion of technology in our natural beings

The digital era and the future of people

Being human in the age of artificial intelligence

Gerry McGovern shows online meetings aren't as 'green' as we think

The ecological impacts of online meetings

Gerry McGovern’s work-in-progress

A metaphor depicting that nature and the environment are our responsibility and we must take action

The personal approach to climate action

Empowering the right behavior

How the water waves meet the water-loving surfaces and dance as they crash

The fourth phase of water

Toward a new understanding of nature and health

The monkey and the female human enjoying a peaceful and happy life in society

The laws of a peaceful life in animals and humans

Principles that play a fundamental role in animal and human societies

A villager in Vietnam uses the resources provided by nature in a sustainable method in the Anthropocene Epoque

Who is the human after the Anthropocene?

The relationship between humans and nature

There are more choices in electric vehicles now more than ever

Electric cars pay for themselves

How I saved $30,000 US dollars in gas and maintenance driving an electric vehicle over eight years

A woman riding her Bup-up bike on her back into town

Eurobike City 2022 bicycle fair

The bicycle is determined to replace the car, more than 1,500 exhibitors present solutions to transform mobility

Monkeypox virus closeup

Human monkeypox outbreak

Monkeypox symptoms, recommended treatments and how to reduce the risks of transmission

An unidentified flying object (UFO) hovering and camouflaged

NASA and the Pentagon vs. UFOs (aka UAPs)

What revelations are awaiting?

All the tools are there in dentistry to utilize the smart decision

The SMART way in dentistry

A valuable and innovative strategy

Solar panel. Like any products, solar PV systems need life cycle analysis (LCA) that includes their impacts from design to discard

Looking under the glass

Questioning solar power’s ecological impacts

Could this be God sending down His light?

Darwin's philosophy and the source of religious belief

Does God really exist?

A depiction of the quantum fields of turbulent flow from a planetary perspective

Quantum fields decomposition of turbulent flows

Prediction, monitoring, and communication in space weather forecasting

A child barely holding onto his book as he smiles and laughs uncontrollably

Smiling and laughing, similar but evolutionarily so distant

All components & ranges elaborated

Hemp seed oil is recognized as safe as it contains very little THC

Marijuana versus hemp

Recreational and therapeutic uses of cannabis

Covid-19. Not only vaccines, but also the natural immunity that is produced by a previous infection will help prevent more serious symptoms, including death

A subvariant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is spreading

New bivalent vaccines will target this and prevent Covid-19

Gazing at the Milky Way stars in the universe

What is beyond the edge of the universe?

From a chat with astrophysicist Dr. Charles Liu

Image of a tree through a four-season cycle. Imagine a world wherein every woman knows when she is fertile and infertile

Reproductive health in a digital era

When you want to know nature—not an app

Elderly couple: aging is unavoidable

Senolytics in antiaging

They say nothing lasts forever; we'll have to prove them wrong

DNA text: DNA ancestry test may include an ethnic assessment or evaluation

DNA Heritage in geopolitics

Countries in denial

This anticancer new drug is important in the field of immunotherapy

An experimental 100% success anticancer drug

It uses patients’ own immune system to cure their cancer

Smart buildings can reduce carbon emissions but do not require 5G connections

An avalanche of green reports won’t cool the climate

Who can trust industry claims about 5G’s sustainability?

Examining and prodding the origin of life

The origin of life examined

A new way to study the origin of life

Painting a New York City rooftop with reflective paint fights heat

When utilities warn of blackouts

Options for ratepayers who expect electricity 24/7

Wind power is a technology that collaborates with nature rather than manipulating it

Applying new technologies to stabilize the climate

Our dangerous faith in technical fixes

Monkeys eating in cooperation

Food cooperation in monkeys

Evolutionary origin of the division of food in humans

Maybe nature is not a place, but a cataclysm of ecological systems

What is nature?

Our environmental obligations demand an open dialogue

Stock Dove © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Woodland Birds in Central London

Bird watching in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens

Mantoloking, New Jersey: in the US, by the end of the century millions of citizens could be forced to move due to climate change

Climate migration in the US

Would you relocate to avoid the risk of a natural disaster?

There are several drugs that have been studied that activate or increase the activity of Telomerase

Telomerase and senescent cells in antiaging

One of the world’s greatest discovery in the science of human evolution

In 1935 Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen published a paper showing one of the earliest mathematical descriptions of a wormhole or bridge

Wormhole and afterlife

Communication and Artificial Intelligence

Quantum suicide: each time the trigger is pulled, the universe splits to accommodate each possible outcome

Our immortal existence through Quantum suicide

The different interpretations of the Quantum reality

Quantum microscopic view

Adaptive signal processing and communication in multiple of scales

Plants don’t exist in isolation, but as part of a super organism that also contains microorganisms in a microbiome

Plants communicate through an underground web of fungi

This mutualistic association between fungi and plant roots is the most prevalent interaction between species in the biosphere

The Argan tree is a symbol of life in Morocco

The Argan tree is the Moroccan tree of life

A living example of perfect symbiosis between man and nature

Living and dying with allegiance to nature

While living in a techno-sphere

Environmental care: civic actors must be knowledgeable of the different choices their community will face

Local civic action against climate change

How can individuals use climate knowledge to enact change within communities?

Oxford University: universities will be the new training centers of universal wisdom

Future of universities

The Princonser method and innovation in research

Human being posing as a monkey while wearing a suit

Monkeys, mediocracy, and memetics

Infinite is the number of fools

Teal can be seen at close range at RSPB Lodmoor © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Birdwatching by the sea side

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Lodmoor in Weymouth

Solar power is one of the tools that can be immediately put to large scale use

The path to ecological prosperity

A fast solar response to the accelerating climate catastrophe

The fascinating world of Quantum Computing

Hello “quantum world”

Are you interested in developing applications with real quantum computers?

Scientists from the USA published a report of assemblies of heart and skin cells that replicated kinematically

Artificial life

Strange robots made from embryonic stem cells

The most efficient EV on the market emits 160g CO2/km (the least efficient 310g) while charging in Poland

Can electric vehicles steer us from energy storms?

Conditions for sustainable cars

Nuclear mushroom cloud

Powerful nuclear power

Balancing the risks and rewards

Rosy starling flock beginning murmuration, Bhigwan, Maharashtra (India) © Ashish Kothari

Does nature play?

Rebuilding our relationship with the Earth

Ancient people believed that entering the Underworld without reverence would be dangerous

Mining the sacred

Questions for a sustainable relationship with the Earth

Premature deaths due to fossil fuel combustion were estimated at 10.2 million persons in 2012

The forgotten war that nobody mentions

Air pollution by fossil fuels is a tragedy killing thousands

Quantum computing

Quantum computing a relational database

What is into that circle?

Without a shadow of a doubt, it can be said that all animals possess the property of consciousness

The Cambridge Declaration on consciousness

All animals can experience it but at a different level

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

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