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Can the Coronavirus be Stopped through Contact Tracing and Isolation?

Link of the day: Feasibility of controlling 2019-nCoV outbreaks by isolation of cases and contacts While in London I co-worked on a paper about the…

10. February 20208. March 2020
Categories Health, Society, Politics and History

Cognitive inequality

It has by now become a well-known trope that automation of low-skilled jobs hits certain parts of the population much harder than others. And that…

28. January 202029. January 2020
Categories Health

The Pharma Industry is Broken and Medication Should Be Directly Sold To States

The Problem The pharmaceutical industry clearly is not working as it should be. Not only did an industry that makes people healthier, happier and helps…

26. January 202026. January 2020
Categories Funfact Friday, Health, Open Questions

Phenoptosis – Are We Programmed to Die?

In 1999 the Russian biochemist Vladimir Skulachev coined the term Phenoptosis in his paper. In analogy to apoptosis (planned cell death), where cells undergo a…

24. January 202026. January 2020
Categories Environment

Is Planting Trees the Best Way to Fight Climate Change?

Why does everything have to be some complicated? One thing seemed so sure: If you plant trees, you take CO2 out of the atmosphere and…

9. January 202012. January 2020
Categories Society, Politics and History

The Cia and the United Fruits Company (Now Chiquita)

Sometimes history makes me very angry. This is one of these times. In 1954 the CIA launched a coup d’état in Guatemala and deposed the…

5. January 20205. January 2020
Categories Funfact Friday, Open Questions

Why is Everything so Expensive?

Everything was better in the good old days. You can ask your grandpa. But anecdotes aside, it really seems like things have been possible in…

3. January 20205. January 2020
Categories Recommendations

36C3 Video Recommendations

I had the great pleasure to attend the 36th Chaos Communication Congress (36C3) in Leipzig. Over 4 days, speakers gave very interesting and often quite…

30. December 20195. January 2020
Categories Charity

The Donation Matching Fund

On December 26, 2019 I started the Donation Matching Fund (DMF). The purpose of this fund is to encourage donations to effective charities by offering…

25. December 201925. December 2019
Categories Recommendations

Podcast Recommendations

The internet is full with podcasts. Here is a list of podcasts that I recommend. They mostly come from politics, tech, society and science and…

17. December 201925. December 2019

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