The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell, Christian Ethics from Marriage and Morals (1950), quoted from James A Haught, ed, 2000 Years of Disbelief
Running out of water?
By 2030, supply of natural resources will not meet demand. How are water resources changing? What can we do? Hear perspectives and strategies for managing our water resources
Malchkeon's eyes on the cover of the first edition of Raindance
In your eyes
The light the heat
In your eyes
I am complete
The Year is 2035 and Global Warming has transformed Sydney from an affluent and vibrant city to a third world slum. A drought lasting 30 years has parched cities and farmlands alike, and a war in the Middle East has left the Western World bankrupt. In a strange twist of climatic fate, Africa now has the rain, and has thrived becoming the new economic power.
Raindance by A.C. Flanagan - Goodreads
Cold war River was launched at the same time and Wuhan type of biological and chemical setting was captured by my story. Then experimentation with anthrax and viruses 🦠 killed selected scientists ... and sadly and tragically my sister Aga. Today the entire world suffers as we are all separated by less than 6 degree. Six only six degrees in the age of insecurities ...
“Zhumageldina was a second-generation victim of nuclear testing, born with microcephaly – a neurological condition in which the head is abnormally small, impeding brain development – and scoliosis in a village near the Semipalatinsk nuclear testing ground, which was used to test the Soviet Union’s atomic bombs. The testing site closed in 1991, the year before Zhannur’s birth.”
Kazakhstan: Grieving families count human cost of coronavirus
[As I read the sad story about the grieving families in Kazakhstan, memories of my nephew Tomaš Imrich came flooding back ]
'Like drowning': Victoria unveils graphic coronavirus advertising campaign
The Android version of DJI Go 4—an app that lets users control drones—has until recently been covertly collecting sensitive user data and can download and execute code of the developers’ choice, researchers said in two reports that question the security and trustworthiness of a program with more than 1 million Google Play downloads.
Security Breach Exposes More Than One Million DNA Profiles On Major Genealogy Database BuzzFeed
Social movements such as #MeToo and Time’s Up are igniting change and bringing women together. Yet, it still remains taboo for women to speak out about woman-on-woman bullying at work. The Workplace Bullying Institute found women bully other women up to 80% of the time. In fact, studies have shown that women who report to women experience a greater frequency of bullying, abuse and job sabotage.
Malchkeon working for financial institutions can attest Why Your Female Boss Doesn’t Support You ...
When a plague tore through Milan in the 1570s, everything had to change. Shops were closed. Mass was sung outdoors. A large church, the Lazzaretto, became a hospital. By 1578 the disease had fallen back, but the city was in financial trouble and had shed almost a fifth of its population.
This year, in the chaotic fallout from coronavirus, the Lazzaretto is once again part of an ambitious urban experiment. Giuseppe Sala, Milan’s leftwing mayor, announced in April that the area would host a pilot scheme for “rethinking the rhythms” of the Lombard capital. Amid the dense cityscape that has built up around the remains of the old hospital, the plan is to “offer services and quality of life within the space of 15 minutes on foot from home”.
The “15-minute” idea is based on research into how city dwellers’ use of time could be reorganised to improve both living conditions and the environment. Developed by Professor Carlos Moreno at the Sorbonne in Paris, the concept of “la ville du quart d’heure” is one in which daily urban necessities are within a 15-minute reach on foot or by bike. Work, home, shops, entertainment, education and healthcare — in Moreno’s vision, these should all be available within the same time a commuter might once have waited on a railway platform.
