Health

Allergies (2)

Ageing

Wishing you a happy, healthy and loving 2025

Explosieve groei darmkanker (WiB)

The American healthcare conundrum

Opting-out

Machine learning vs AI

Kenniet loit op ‘t kerkhof en wulniet loit er naast

Light as a connecting force

A warning label for social media platforms?!

Rights & duties: vaccination

Forgetting and unlearning

Alter ego

From Dutch anger to European anger?

Dutch explanations

A reliance on technology creates weaknesses?

A healthy mind in a healthy body

Why would I need or want AI??

Growth: what goes up must come down

Get Your Rest (Scientific American)

China’s weakened economy or “economic long COVID” (Axios)

Vacation

Why do animals, humans and plants dislike rain?

Excess mortality

‘Live free and die?’ The sad state of U.S. life expectancy (NPR)

Prostate cancer treatment can wait for most men, study finds (Medical Xpress)

DNA might help us live to be 150 years old (Bloomberg)

HIV patient cured after bone marrow transplant in rare case, research shows (WaPo)

Divorce is bad for you? Marriage can be too (Telegraph)

Time efficiency

China: from zero to max Covid?

Doctors and Lawyers Debate Meaning of Death as Families Challenge Practices (WSJ)

New CRISPR cancer treatment tested in humans for first time (FreeThink)

Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of shoddy research (Big Think)

It’s better to smile than to get angry

Being lonely and unhappy accelerates aging more than smoking, study finds (Medical Xpress)

Rethinking the Origins of Inflammatory Diseases (WSJ)

Balancing competition and cooperation (3)

Onverwoestbare PFAS zijn toch betrekkelijk eenvoudig af te breken (NRC)

Simple method destroys dangerous ‘forever chemicals,’ making water safe (Science Daily)

Space travel

Little by little the truth of lockdown is being admitted: it was a disaster (the Times)

Did Sweden’s controversial COVID strategy pay off? In many ways it did – but it let the elderly down (the Conversation)

Fact check: did universal health care prevent corona deaths?

Why do we have labour shortages?

Media = virus

I invented Gilead. The Supreme Court is making it real. (Margaret Atwood)

“I just don’t care anymore.”

Ethics: micro vs macro

Could the blueprint for life have been generated in asteroids? (Phys)

Why are anti-vax and pro-Russia linked?

We are eager to forget and eager to move on

The Great Lockdown Lie (National Review)

Living by the Code: In China, Covid-Era Controls May Outlast the Virus (NYT)

The turn of an unfriendly card

Progress: how, what, when, where, who and Why

Jacinda Ardern is martyring herself and her country – and all for a failed Covid strategy (Telegraph)

RPA department head lashes ‘politically-driven’ management of crisis (SMH)

From pandemic to endemic

China Makes a Risky Bet on Olympic Victory Over Covid (Bloomberg)

China’s smallest firms failing at historic pace as 4.37 million close up shop and registrations plummet (SCMP)

The opposite of the Greater Good theory

Ic-arts bij Op1 kritisch over harde lockdown: ‘Er komen niet duizenden op ic’

Why life is faster but depression is lower in bigger cities (Aeon)

The Public-Health Mafia (National Review)

The labor shortage is a health problem (Axios)

Some Hospitals Drop Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates to Ease Labor Shortages (WSJ)

The public has turned against the excesses of the lockdown fanatics (Telegraph)

Democracy slipping away at record rate, intergovernmental body warns (Reuters)

The law of supply and demand in hospitals

Who is to blame for hospital demand exceeding supply?

We moeten ons afvragen: wat betekent ‘2G’ voor de democratie? (NRC)

Dutch PM: “What more can I do??”

What is “gain-of-function” research? (the Economist)

Truckers warn ‘disastrous’ mandate will worsen supply chain chaos (WE)

Where indifference is bliss, solutions are near

The number of people who have died from covid-19 is likely to be close to 17m (the Economist)

Vaccine mandates are mobilising the opposition

Vaccine mandates vs labour shortages

Is Europe Wrong? Or Are We? (National Review)

Antidepressant Significantly Reduces Covid-19 Hospitalization (WSJ)

“Veel ongevaccineerden met migratie-achtergrond op ic”

New York Times Retracts Massive Exaggeration of Children Hospitalized by COVID-19 (NR)

The Great Filter in civilizations: a conclusion

What are DNA vaccines? (the Economist)

The new population bomb (NIKKEI)

Asymptomatic

Asymptomatisch

New study identifies likely cause of Alzheimer’s disease (Medical Xpress)

Fact check: COVID has killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 flu (AP)

Health, Wealth & Self

Collateral damage

Zero Covid policy

How Often Should You Shower? Celebrities Ignite a Ferocious Debate (WSJ)

Why is history not important to us?

South Korea hikes interest rates, the first developed economy to do so in pandemic era (CNBC)

A German U-turn

Idiocracy (6): New Zealand

Idiocracy (5)

Idiocracy (2)

A healthy faith, by philosopher René ten Bos

Gezond geloof (René ten Bos in FD)

Political nationalism vs economic internationalism

The asymptomatic Covid anomaly

In Children, Risk of Covid-19 Death or Serious Illness Remains Extremely Low, New Studies Find (WSJ)

COVID-19 origins still a mystery: Study finds virus was ‘highly human adapted’ (Medical Xpress)

There never was a male fertility crisis (Big Think)

Covid will always kill and we have to accept that, says Michael Gove (Times)

Ageing process is unstoppable, finds unprecedented study (Guardian)

Best efforts vs commitment

Change blindness

Editing One Gene Extends Mouse Life Expectancy by 23% (freethink)

Defying body clock linked to depression and lower wellbeing (Medical Xpress)

Why our risk appetite is decreasing

Media face hard questions on Trump, Wuhan lab (the Hill)

For men, low testosterone means high risk of severe COVID-19

Beyond COVID: mRNA Vaccines May Treat Cancer and More (freethink)

COVID-19: Made in China?

Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible (WaPo)

Why can’t those given Covid vaccine just get on with their lives? (Times)

The elephant in the room

The road to loss is paved with averages

Reversible Gene Editing (Freethink)

An American Epidemic of ‘Covid Mania’ (WSJ)

Sleeping Too Little in Middle Age May Increase Dementia Risk, Study Finds (NYT)

COVID: Is it OK to manipulate people into getting vaccinated? (the Conversation)

Ultraviolet LED lights kill coronavirus cheaply and effectively, scientists report (Big Think)

First-ever vaccine for malignant brain tumors reported safe, effective in early trial (Medical Xpress)

EU vaccine passport a.k.a. Digital Green Certificate

The redundancy of politics (3)

Why don’t we retire retirement homes?

To Beat COVID, We May Need a Good Shot in the Nose (Scientific American)

Thinking of a place

Tom Peters: McKinsey’s work on opioid sales represents a new low (FT)

We’re living in a golden age of ignorance (FT)

How long can a society last without hope?

‘It’s time that the elderly will sacrifice themselves for younger people’ (NRC)

‘Het wordt tijd dat de ouderen zich gaan opofferen voor de jongeren’ (NRC)

“Immunity passports” in the context of COVID-19 (WHO)

The dark side of empathy (2)

Het Verzuim van de Vierde Macht door Siegfried Bracke

Covid-19: guilt & shame + regret & remorse = lockdown

China’s Horrific Triumph (National Review)

Deze lockdown is disproportioneel (NRC)

Mark Rutte, ga ziekenhuizen openen ipv winkels sluiten !

Bread and circuses in 2020

Millions of hungry Americans turn to food banks for 1st time (AP)

Workers File 712,000 Jobless Claims as Pandemic Total Reaches 69 Million (NR)

The Institutional Crisis and COVID-19 (GPF)

Fear sells

Chinese and Western differences in Cause and Effect

Pandemic medical reserve capacity

Leaked documents reveal China hid severity of its coronavirus outbreak (Times)

Study warns of delayed flu outbreaks after pandemic ends (Big Think)

A public space on private property

When could you say ‘No’ to a vaccine?

Superspreaders: who and why

The dark side of empathy

Tunnelvisie nekt crisiskabinet (Adformatie)

The coronavirus’s origins are still a mystery. We need a full investigation. (WaPo)

Mission, goals, strategy, tactics and operations of viruses

Tragedy and Mystery by China Crisis

How the W.H.O. bowed to China (NYT)

The Great Reset

Race to the bottom

Half of Europe’s Smaller Businesses Risk Bankruptcy Within Year (Bloomberg)

Top-10 of micro and macro arguments

Pandemic boosts automation and robotics (FT)

Why is a viral disease still on WHO’s A list?

How long (will this be going on)

The Great Barrington Declaration

Covid-19 risk analysis

The real lessons from Sweden’s approach to covid-19 (the Economist)

The three premises and its conclusion

Thousands of scientists urge end to ‘devastating’ lockdowns

Crime of the Century

Covid-19 risk matrix

De balans tussen economie en gezondheid is zoek

The Most Common Pain Relief Drug in The World Induces Risky Behaviour, Study Suggests (Science Alert)

Survival of the fittest

Lockdown supporters cannot bear the thought that Sweden has got it right (Telegraph)

Fooled by absolute numbers

Sweden’s economy shrank less than eurozone’s at height of pandemic (FT)

From a COVID-19 Recession to COVID-19 Depression? (GPF)

You’ve got a friend who is watching over you

The asymptomatic oxymoron: testing positive, not getting sick, and “very rarely” spreading the virus

The Kominsky Method (Netflix)

Flattening the curve

Needs, Wants & Beliefs in reverse

Morality vs risk management

The danger of using absolute or relative numbers (2)

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself (2)

Some coronavirus calculations

The 7 Belief systems: from trialism to dualism to monism

‘Will the Fed spend trillion of dollars, every year, forever to support the market?’ asks billionaire Howard Marks (MarketWatch)

Hope for the best, plan for the worst (4)

WHO Says Transmission by Asymptomatic Covid Patients ‘Very Rare’ (National Review)

Coronavirus anomalies (2)

Why did our governments forget about care homes?

Risky business (Reuters BreakingViews)

Exclusive: Coronavirus began ‘as an accident’ in Chinese lab, says former MI6 boss (Telegraph)

China delayed releasing coronavirus info, frustrating WHO (AP)

Zo maakte China de WHO vleugellam in de coronacrisis (Volkskrant)

Pandemic’s overall death toll in U.S. likely surpassed 100,000 weeks ago (WaPo)

US is a mess but China isn’t the solution: Niall Ferguson (Nikkei Asian Review)

The mystery of coronavirus superspreaders (Axios)

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

Coronavirus: Trump’s health secretary says US has world’s worst death toll because Americans are so unhealthy (Independent)

Onder Trumps machtsstrijd met China verbrokkelt de wereld (Trouw)

2019 corona virus versus 1918 Spanish flu

Skin hunger

Evidence mounts that outside is safer when it comes to COVID-19 (the Hill)

Why did China lie to us about its coronavirus? (2)

Politici staan in hun ideologische hemd (FD)

De economie is geen rechtse hobby, maar een zaak van leven en dood (Volkskrant)

Het coronabeleid heeft dringend meer legitimiteit nodig (NRC)

How should you explain a pandemic?

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Coronavirus fear lets government assault our freedom in violation of Constitution (Fox)

Red and Blue America Agree That Now Is the Time to Violate the Constitution (Atlantic)

Spoedwet voor noodmaatregelen (NRC)

Noodverordening blijkt illegaal en moet worden aangepast (Trouw)

Tech firms show how much power they have (Telegraph)

Why China is losing the coronavirus narrative (FT)

What could happen to countries run by virologists?

Will our post-corona lives be like the 1997 movie Gattaca?

The Great Moral Bankruptcy

A Coronavirus Strategy Memo to Chairman Xi (National Review)

Het virus zou niet discrimineren en iedereen treffen. Niets blijkt minder waar (Knack)

Microbial Jurassic Park? How a Virus Revived After 30,000 Years Differs From Coronavirus (Haaretz)

Coronavirus anomalies

Dr. Anthony Fauci: China misled the world; virus erupted in mid-December (WT)

Xi Jinping’s China did this (Times of Israel)

Many people may already have immunity to coronavirus, German study finds (Telegraph)

Has Sweden Found the Right Solution to the Coronavirus? (National Review)

Niall Ferguson’s six questions to the Chinese president

Niall Ferguson’s sechs Fragen an den chinesischen Präsidenten

Niall Ferguson’s zes vragen aan de Chinese president

The macro and micro side of the corona coin

A Universal Basic Income may arise from COVID-19’s ashes

Shattered illusions

Blood Type May Influence How Prone You Are to the Coronavirus, Report Says (Haaretz)

The coronavirus gulf dividing Europe and America (FT)

C.I.A. Hunts for Authentic Virus Totals in China, Dismissing Government Tallies (NYT)

China Concealed Extent of Virus Outbreak, U.S. Intelligence Says (Bloomberg)

Why did China lie to us about its coronavirus deaths?

April 1, Fool’s Day

Report of Urns Stacked at Wuhan Funeral Homes Raises Questions About the Real Coronavirus Death Toll in China (Time)

101-year-old man who survived 1918 flu beats coronavirus, too (Futurism)

Study: yes, half of coronavirus carriers show no symptoms (Futurism)

Senicide (4): how much is a human life worth?

What’s wrong with this picture?

Senicide: the abandonment to death, suicide, or killing of the elderly (2)

Senicide: het doelbewust doden van oudere mensen (1)

U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic (WaPo)

Ai No Corona (4) – how an urgent crisis looks like

Ai No Corona (3) – a global domino effect

Covid-19 Is Nothing Like the Spanish Flu (Wired)

Ai No Corona (2) – micro vs macro

Exclusive: The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing (Atlantic)

Trump’s Playbook Is Terribly Ill-Suited to a Pandemic (Atlantic)

The blurring of facts and opinions

Virus epidemics

Lung cancer: quitting smoking regrows protective lung cells – new research (the Conversation)

Having less sex linked to earlier menopause (Medical Xpress)

How Marijuana Accelerates Growth of HPV-related Head and Neck Cancer Identified (UCSDH)

Virus in Chinese outbreak is closest to one from bats, not snakes (MIT)

Asia is traditional cradle of influenza (NBC-2004)

Biologists identify pathways that extend lifespan by 500% (Phys)

Common hair products linked to cancer risk, says breaking new study (Big Think)

Famous Geneticist’s Dating App Would Match Users Based on DNA (Futurism)

One of the best ways to treat anxiety? A full night’s rest, new research suggests. (Big Think)

Ultrasound treatment ‘eliminates’ prostate cancer, study finds (Times)

Moore’s Law and labour productivity

Hearing loss, even when mild, linked to mental decline in seniors (Reuters)

Age ain’t nothing but a number

Air pollution nanoparticles linked to brain cancer for first time (Guardian)

Measles erases immune ‘memory’ for other diseases (Nature)

To treat back pain, look at the brain not the spine (Aeon)

Exposure to air pollution increases violent crime rates, study finds (Phys)

Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice. (NYT)

California researchers develop drug cocktail that reverses aging — results ‘remarkably promising’ (Big Think)

Something Special Is Happening in Rural America (NYT)

Intolerance and urbanisation

Fat shaming as a cure for obesity. Seriously?

So many countries, so many customs

Many vegetative patients are actually ‘covertly conscious’ (Big Think)

Deze groep Rotterdamse genetici zegt te weten wat veroudering is (Trouw)

‘Burn-Out’ Is Now a Legitimate Syndrome (Science Alert)

Transgenic fungus rapidly killed malaria mosquitoes in West African study (Phys)

Skin Lightening: Africa’s Multibillion Dollar Post-Colonial Hangover (Bright)

Vrouwen kunnen niet autorijden en dit is waarom (Volkskrant)

Fungi, the interface between life and death (2)

The future Great Divide between generations

The death rate for opioid use has surpassed car crashes in the US (Quartz)

‘Stealth disease’ written off as old age may be behind thousands of cancers and joint problems, study shows (Independent)

U.S. Life Expectancy Drops for Third Year in a Row

Think-tanks are having an existential crisis (FT)

What prevents societies from achieving an Awakening?

Researchers find rare instances of male mtDNA being passed on to offspring (Medical Xpress)

Silicone breast implant patients face greatly increased risk of autoimmune disease (Medical Xpress)

Researchers identify three sub-types of depression (Medical Xpress)

Stress oorzaak enorme crisis (Telegraaf)

Family tree of 400 million people shows genetics has limited influence on longevity (Medical Xpress)

Lifespan and sexual maturity depends on your brain more than your body (Medical Xpress)

Why are there no chairs in the Bible or Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1599) ?

Change, the centrifugal force of beliefs

Do people see you as a person or as a patient?

Record three in ten Japanese are over 65 as population crisis grows (UK Times)

A World With Fewer Babies Spells Economic Trouble (Bloomberg)

The complexity bias (8) – Urbanization (2)

Self pity

Come fly with me

Feeling powerless

Study shows yogurt may dampen chronic inflammation linked to multiple diseases (Medical Xpress)

Slavery of the mind

Artificial sweeteners linked to diabetes and obesity (the Conversation)

Multivitamins are not only ineffective, but dangerous (Big Think)

Equality, happiness and health

Technology and Minimum Viable Population

Darkness on the edge of town

Fasten your seatbelts

Linking anxiety & depression to bacteria & viruses

Earth’s magnetic pole reversal

Fatigue

Perfection of means and confusion of aims

Vaccines – the Truth as a Belief system

The American solution: more guns, less healthcare

Autonomy – Philosophy as a Belief system

What is life?

ADHD: nature, nurture and Wi-Fi

Open brief aan Ministerie Volksgezondheid

Viruses (4) – Ebola

Donorweek

Our biological clock is ticking, ticking………

Mr. Sniffles

Gezocht: dood of levend

Dead or Alive

Yes unless

Alice your personal care robot

Life Expectancy

Tipping Points – CRISPR-Cas9

What is the purpose of death? (3)

What is the purpose of death? (2)

What is the purpose of death? (1)

Dignity and mercy

Sleep management vs time management

Allergies

Tipping point: Technological Revolution 1800-2100 (4)

Urbanisation (2) – mental health

Dependence and Disappointment

From wintersleep to hibernation

In pursuit of happiness – part 3

In pursuit of happiness – part 2

In pursuit of happiness

Urbanisation

Professional care

Honesty

Healthcare: total loss or repair

Seven – six degrees of separation – network science

Growing old

Sunlight and viruses

Weather, mood and pain

Addictions

Viruses – what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

Apple CarPlay (2015) – just a dashboard UI or a Trojan horse for Apple Car (2020) ?

US healthcare and mandatory (measles) vaccination

Healthcare, medicine mafia and Automotive