Professor Konvička on the impacts of climate change
I’ll preface that I wouldn’t want to live in the Eocene – it was the warmest phase of the Neogene (the geological period encompassing the Tertiary and Quaternary), the Earth…
Clash of futures
“The old order will inevitably give way to a new one. The only way to deal with time is to adapt and embrace the future,” writes Christian Secor at Counter-currents.…
About New Year’s resolutions
For those who are making New Year’s resolutions, I would like to point out a very common mistake that often leads to resignation to any improvement. Namely, that we focus…
On the rivalry between the right and the left
A few days ago I tried to define the “building right” as opposed to the right as a movement of shysters, profiteers and golden youth. If this were to happen,…
Pharmacy, evil, reason
We all hate pharmaceutical corporations. We can all easily agree on that. Including the author of this gloss. But what do we really blame them for? a) Driving the prices…
The golden age of free speech
In 1906, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded jointly to the Italian Camilo Golgi and the Spaniard Ramon Cayal. The ceremony includes a lecture, so in this case there…