According to a recent study from the Pew Research Centre, a very large number of people on Earth place global warming top as one of the defining issues of our
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Scientists, let’s not go back to the pre-Covid world of unrestrained professional travelling
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Pre-Covid, scientists and more generally academics clocked up thousands and thousands of airmiles to attend conferences, workshops, and various other professional meetings. I know: I did the same. Many of
In this era of headlines-seeking media and twitter-like attention span, the decision-making process by the European Union (EU) is constantly being criticized, dramatized, and derided. Let’s write instead in praise
Many scholars and world leaders in politics and industry (Pinker, Obama, Gates, etc…) have argued rightly that the human condition has improved dramatically in the period after World War II:
Science’s diverging messages: why did the “guided by the science” mantra lead countries down different strategic paths?
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For those who believe that science is a universal language, something disturbing occurred during this Covid-19 crisis: while all governments claim to be guided by “THE” science, each country seems
As the epidemic of Covid-19 reaches its peak and slowly recedes, the media, the politicians, and the intellectuals are actively sharing their thoughts about the post-Covid future. Some are active
The Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy of epic proportions. As the situation appears to go from bad to worse, many, including myself, have started receiving video links, poems, and other
Something is happening with Covid-19 that the bungled “yes” 2016 referendum campaign didn’t manage to do: making us feel more European! Since Covid-19 struck China, we knew our turn will
Human-made global warming is a well-established fact based on inescapable scientific evidence accumulated over many years. Denying it is equivalent to denying evolution. Thus, scientists in their immense majority agree
Brexit: a pointless exercise that will waste energy and time to get to where we are already (or close)!
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What is striking about Brexit in general and its impact on science in particular is how it will eventually be judged as pointless. Considerable energy is going to be wasted