Covid-19: China’s Chernobyl: Parallels: High technology in the hands of autocratic regime. Nuclear Energy in Chernobyl 1986 Biotechnology- China 2019 2. High incompetence. a. Poor preparation for emergency procedures which caused Chernobyl meltdown b. We haven’t final details in case of Wuhan. We know that Corona virus human transmission was being studied in a Wuhan…
Contagion: SARS Cov -2 Big Picture: Authors of the Genesis legend of Adam and Eve, wrote of the expulsion from Eden and rise of knowledge and civilization. Civilization exposed hazards and introduced unnatural mortality to humankind. From Egypt to Mesopotamia, China, and India, cities gave rise an elite oppressors and hoards of the miserable, leading…
The price we pay for maintaining our unique private pay healthcare system is financial insecurity. Financial class is the most critical determinant of healthcare. The poor can’t afford to pay for their medical care. Yet they cannot be turned away from hospitals. They get mostly emergency and disaster care rather than preventive care, but care…
Medical Practice Nightmare It was like I was in a dream. I was referred a woman with symptoms of near fainting and dizziness. She came to me with a sheaf of papers from another hospital. I read through test after test, after test, MRA of the abdomen, MRA of the chest, of the neck of…
Neurologist Anjan Chatterjee in his TED talk on beauty noted how Francis Galton sought to build a composite face of criminality. Using his new technique of combining faces, Galton expected to find the grotesque face of criminality but instead brought to life a face of beauty. What happened? Galton didn’t realize that beauty is an…
DIVERSITY Living things are less linear maybe non-deterministic compared with inanimate objects. We talk about the struggle for existence. I’m observing in my garden plants competing with each other for light. Deciduous trees crowd out smaller bushes down below depriving them of light stunting their growth. Vines grow like epiphytes loving to climb up over…
Uncluttered Mind When an English as a second language teacher told me the real reason for kids facility with language was that their minds aren’t gummed up with their native tongue, I had an epiphany. Maybe the different learning style of kids had little to do with anatomical brain differences from the the mature brain…
Amazing how one thing leads to the other. Were you taken in by Kim Jung Un’s charm offensive – little red outfitted cheer leaders and Ms Kim Yo-Jong his little sister, diplomat to the Olympic games their outsized hotel and other expenses fully financed by N. Korea’s mortal enemy to the south? Having recently read…
If you have a brain, you carry an inner reproduction of the outside world. Your body is also represented in facsimile inside your skull. Among other things your personal inner facsimile lets you try things out inside the confines of your own head, to rehearse scenarios without worrying they will kill you. Inner imagery allows…
I live in a quiet neighborhood. If I should go out in the middle of the night, say 2 AM, all is silent and you can see a part of the sky through tall trees, shadows cast by the few dim foundation lights around other houses. Generally there are no animals making noises. Occasionally a…