DanaThomas

As they say, money talks, and while health-related reports are easy to manipulate, trade figures are relatively concrete. We’ll have to see how long it takes for China to re-open and how serious supply chain interruptions turn out to be. It is still too early to make more than a few informed hypotheses about the “virus affair”, and the only sure…[Read more]

On the “Books” page, pdf versions of hard-to-find works such as The Devil’s Chemists, the book by Dubois about IG Farben.

A prestigious name for a respectable body….

Parts 2-4 still work.

Telecoms conveniently provide coverage maps for most places, to entice people to sign up, though of course omitting vital details such as radiation strength. This may shed light on “mysterious” outbreaks of whatever disease. There is some empirical evidence for this in the WuFlu outbreaks in Northern Italy, in the sense that the quarantined or…[Read more]

Just looking at it. I did not have a device with me suitable for taking a direct photo of the Sun. At first the “second sun” was too bright to look at for more than second or two, but afterwards it gradually disappeared. Anyway it was similar to some published photos of this phenomenon, said to be due to an unusual refraction/reflection of light…[Read more]

The current high numbers in Italy have appeared because of the precautionary measure by the public health system of applying swipes to 8,000 people connected with the first handful of cases. Most of the persons currently shown to be (or said to be) positive have no symptoms. This has brought the country a “bad press”, but it is a lesser evil at present.

Do the demented figures include arms used “democratically” in Iraq, Afghanistan etc. ?

Any relation with Asian phenotypes?

In the scheme of things, there has to be a balance between living adventurously and courting disaster.

Interesting reference, I had never come across Gabb.