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Fight for a liveable planet for us, our children and future generations

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Scientists Peter Hotez, a vaccinologist and dean of National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College in Texas and Michael Mann, climatologist and professor of atmospheric science at Pennsylvania State University, may have gone over the top in their assessment of the threat. They claim “Science is indeed under siege, and that’s not good for any of us. It’s not too late to do something: It’s time to get things done”. Both endured frequent personal attacks and threats to themselves and their families, on social media and in person at lectures and even at home. Climate change deniers are encouraging … Continue reading Fight for a liveable planet for us, our children and future generations

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Who Knows What: The Paradoxes of human behaviour

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Harvard psychologist, one of the world’s greatest thinkers, and cognitive scientist, Steven Pinker, in When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows, explores common knowledge- a concept deriving from game theory that describes the state in which not only does everyone knows something, but everyone knows that everyone knows that everyone knows. This idea according to Pinker “illuminates many enigmas of our public affairs and personal lives” and constitutes “a keystone in understanding the social world”. Pinker shows us how we think about each other’s thoughts, ad infinitum, it sounds impossible, but we do it all the same. This awareness which we … Continue reading Who Knows What: The Paradoxes of human behaviour

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Better and clearer practices in “the evidence”

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Kucharski, a professor of mathematics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, explores how proof is not just a mathematical concept but a vital tool in decision-making, justice, and survival. From the medieval Islamic world to the recent pandemic, scientific progress has relied on different methods of establishing fact from fiction. Today, in the face of ever-increasing disinformation, how we prove things – to ourselves and others- has never felt more urgent. There is far more to proof than axioms, theories and scientific §       of someone’s guilt, or deciding whether to trust a new type of financial transaction, weighing … Continue reading Better and clearer practices in “the evidence”

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Lovelock’s technology that found the hole in the Ozone layer

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James Lovelock, the scientist who styled himself as an independent researcher and discovered the chemicals that were destroying the ozone layer, predicted the dangers of climate change, and even helped the British secret services to detect Irish Republican Army bombs. Lovelock known as the father of Gala Theory, the idea that life on Earth is a self-sustaining system in which organisms interact with their environments to maintain a habitable ecosystem. During the Second World War he worked at the National Medical Research Institute, where his life-long interest in chemical tracing began. In the 1960s he worked at NASA and for … Continue reading Lovelock’s technology that found the hole in the Ozone layer

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Boeing launches critical venture astronaut capsule

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Boeing has launched its Starliner capsule towards the International Space Station (ISS) with two NASA astronauts abroad, as the it’s for the first time the vehicle has been entrusted to carry people. Strainer is scheduled to dock with the space station on Thursday. The capsule went up from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, riding a United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket. The 12-minute powered ascent was indeed flawless. Commander Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be testing the capsule on a mission that is expected to last over a week. Starliner now has to raise itself to the orbit … Continue reading Boeing launches critical venture astronaut capsule

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Sun Storms intensify to reveal more Northern Lights in two weeks

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More Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) are on the way, as huge sunspot cluster that hurled energy and gas towards Earth will rotate back towards us in around two weeks. The Sun has continued since last Saturday, pumping out increased radiation – a huge solar flare on Tuesday disrupted high-frequency radio communications globally the Sun is approaching “ Solar Maximum” a point during an 11-year cycle when its activity is intense, when the Sun’s magnetic poles flip –  a process that creates sunspots that fire out material, generating space weather.  This solar cycle is the 25th since humans started systematically observing … Continue reading Sun Storms intensify to reveal more Northern Lights in two weeks

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The Secret of aging

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All of us would like to live longer, or to slow the debilitating effects of age. Coleen Murphy, a leading scholar of aging,  show how recent research on longevity and aging may be bringing us closer to this goal. She explains that the study of model systems, particularly simple invertebrate animals, combined with breakthroughs in genomic methods have allowed scientist to probe into molecular mechanisms of longevity and aging. Understanding the fundamental biological rules that govern aging in model systems provide clues about how we  might slow human aging, which could lead in turn to new therapeutics and treatments for … Continue reading The Secret of aging

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Attention, intention, imagination and emotion play in the storing of memories

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We talk about memory as a record of the past: but we aren’t supposed to remember everything. In fact, we’re designed to forget. We talk about memory as a record of the past, over the course of twenty-five years, eminent neuroscientist, Charan Ranganath, director of the Memory amen Plasticity Program at the University of California, Davis, studied the seemingly selective and unreliable nature of human memory to find that our brains haven’t evolved to keep a comprehensive record of events, but to extract the information needed to guide our futures. Why We Remember, unveils the principles behind what and why … Continue reading Attention, intention, imagination and emotion play in the storing of memories