26 Nov, 2022
Phys title: The thinking undead: How dormant bacteria calculate their return to life By: University of California - San Diego Date: 6 October 2022 "Facing starvation and stress conditions, some bacteria enter a dormant state in which life processes stop. Shutting down into a deep dormancy allows these cells, called spores, to withstand punishing extremes of heat,...
21 Oct, 2022
Wall Street Journal title: Rethinking the Origins of Inflammatory Diseases WSJ subtitle: Research on how the immune system can go wrong is changing the way medicine thinks about everything from Covid-19 to heart diseaseBy: Shilpa RavellaDate: 6 October 2022 "When the Covid pandemic took hold in late 2019, an urgent question soon emerged: Why did some individuals...
8 Oct, 2022
Bloomberg title: The Global Economy Enters ‘Eye of a New Storm’ By: Simon Kennedy Date: 3 October 2022 Shockwaves Forget Nike Town. It’s more Nike down, these days. Shares of the sportswear giant plunged the most in two decades last week. The main reason was a 65% surge in inventories during the fiscal first quarter through August. But the...
27 Sep, 2022
The 1978 term "winter of discontent" is popular once again, for various reasons (eg, 2021 global energy crisis, 2022 food crises, 2021-2022 global supply chain crisis). Citizens blame their governments (eg, DutchNews). The EU blames the national governments for acting late or not all (eg, Wiley, T&F online). Balancing competition versus cooperation is hard. See...
12 Sep, 2022
Early 2016, I published part 1 and part 2 of this blog. I'm surprised that the Chinese implosion is nearer than I had expected. Usually, such a development takes decades. I suppose China's swift transformation from pragmatism to ideology is accountable and responsible for the acceleration of its implosion. The reasons for my current expectation are as follows:...
10 Sep, 2022
Bloomberg title: China Is Paying a Price for Its Economic and Pandemic Policies By: Malcolm Scott Date: 31 August 2022 "Opportunity Cost The Law of Unintended Consequences is wrecking havoc on China. And by the day, economists are turning more bearish as a result. Raymond Yeung at ANZ Bank become the latest to slash forecasts for growth this year, down to 3%...
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