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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

Moiré pattern

Moiré patterns

From an illusion to the light twisters

Powering one U.S. household would need 41 pedalers on bike-powered generators pedaling for eight hours each day

Pedaling for videos, refrigerators, hot water and...

About nature and technology

Alarm cries are intended to ward off predators

Singing behavior

A very important role in our survival and that of animals

Green Woodpeckers can be seen flying between the open glades and woodland © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Hornchurch Country Park

Skylarks on London’s eastern edge

Machine Learning

Adversarial Machine Learning tactics and techniques

AI red team operations

Malaria is caused by parasitic protozoans in the genus Plasmodium

Malaria vaccine is effective in children

How malaria is very different than Covid-19

Infrared thermal image of a human body

Help thy neighbor

A compelling argument for global access to electricity

Operating a smartphone depends on access networks

Writing with awareness of the Earth and the techno-sphere

The Internet does not have a soul or a spirit

The world is not reversing the climate crisis, quite the contrary

The fight against climate change

The dangers and possible deceptions of long-term commitments

In today’s world, the relationship between science and spirituality ranges from hostility to peaceful coexistence

The union of science and spirituality

The fundamental differences between human and computer intelligence

Is 3-6-9 the "key" to the universe?

Why does a universe begin?

Reflecting on infinity in triplets

Dian Fossey

Dian Fossey and her Mountain Gorillas

Thanks to her dream that cost her her life, we can still see these wonderful gorillas in the Virunga Mountains

The rise of surveillance capitalism

Indoctrinating digital surveillance

Deep mistake: using malware for dealing with a fundamentally economic problem

A properly balanced and harmonious human immune system can eliminate the virus

Immune system response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus

The response to this virus depends in large part on the health of one’s neuroendocrine immune system

The 1975 Chinese postage stamp shows an open heart surgery under acupuncture anesthesia

Acupuncture anesthesia and ping-pong diplomacy

Chinese way to achieve insensitivity

Social media are absolutely necessary for a successful business

Latest trends in social media and digital marketing

You must stay on top of the current trends

Sci-fi movies made you trust in AI’s potential to create a better world

From science fiction to reality

When childhood nostalgia turns into an engineer’s deepest concern

Wormholes are consistent with the general theory of relativity by Einstein, but whether wormholes actually exist remains to be seen

The proof of their existence

Gran Canaria

Understanding algae

My studies in Europe during the 90s

Farmer with dead eagle after wind turbine injury, near Waterloo Wind Farm, Australia © Vanessa Hunter

Before committing billions to industrial wind turbines

A column about nature and technology

The nature of information

Computers cannot be conscious

The fundamental differences between human and computer intelligence

Great Spotted Woodpeckers live high up in London's wooded areas

Birdwatching in Cobourg Road Nature Area

Birds in urban London

The field of neuroscience includes several approaches

The art of mind-flow and neuroscience

Understanding the mind

If we save trees they will help save us

Hurry, hug some trees!

They are one of nature’s most remarkable gifts

Jane Goodall, one of the most prestigious and well-known women around the world for her research

A tribute to Jane Goodall

I was put in this world to do what I am doing

Zoonotic leap is not very uncommon

Jumping of a virus from animals to humans

How the Covid-19 virus spread from China into the entire globe

Machine Learning can be used as a solution or as harm depending on the situation

Machine Learning used as weaponization by adversaries

A double-edged sword

Modern medicine and science now realize that the human body is an ecosystem with a deep ecology

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic

Systems thinking, Total Quality Leadership and Manufacturing

Nanobots

A look at efficient drug delivery and cancer

34 billion devices produce tons of non-recycled electronic waste

Will my smartphone R.I.P.?

A smartphone’s voyage in the afterlife

A pandemic is a momentous event

The first pandemic of the Anthropocene

A global biological and health crisis widely predicted

Yellow-fin tuna

Fishing tuna in the Eastern Pacific

My second job as a marine biologist

Indian scimitar babbler & silk cotton flowers, Panchagani © Ashish Kothari

Nature’s profusion

Spaces where one relearns the meaning of life

Cell tower collapses during tornado across U.S. Route 280, March 3, 2019, ph. Mike Haskey/Ledger-Enquirer, via Associated Press

Ensuring a cell tower’s safety before it goes live

Questions for concerned communities

Any living organism, from bacteria to man, is an open system

The nature of life

The fundamental differences between human and computer intelligence

Managing stress

Managing stress in the 21st century

Planet Earth: the good, the bad & the ugly

Transgender people have been around throughout history and throughout cultures

Can sex be changed?

The medicalization of our lives

St James's Park in Central London is good for waterbirds © Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Birdwatching in London’s parks

Lockdown birding

The language of mathematics

Mathematics vs. computer

Universal grammar and a language of expression

Birds and insects can sense the magnetic field of the earth to find their way

5G’s threats to wildlife

A letter to Greta Thunberg: is 5G an experiment on life?

Mycobacterium leprae bacteria is the causative agent of leprosy

Hansen's disease in chimpanzees

The origin of leprosy is still unknown in these animals

Researchers design ventilation hoods for hospital beds to help contain Covid-19 spread

Disaster management for Covid-19

People during a pandemic may accept temporarily suspending of some of their ordinary freedoms

Advanced adversaries will have enough resources to succeed in the initial intrusion always

Battling against advanced adversaries

There are no predictable actions

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