Author: suspendeddisbelief

Europe, that puzzling and permanent experiment, is changing once again. Germans are turning ever more nationalistic and French ever more opportunistic. Nationalism ruined th Balcans at the end of the 20th century and now is it menacing the entire construct of the European Union. The anxieties and fears of the Germans remind me of this […]

The patent system is being used to monopolise the all the tools for genomics manipulation. In the US, for example, it costs a woman between $3,000 and $4,000 to be tested for familial breast cancer that is free in Europe to all women. This is because a corporation owns -in the US only- the patent […]

I took a few notes when reading the book “The Wisdom of Crowds” that I post here. James Surowiecki’s book is about how smarter are groups than the individuals than compose them separately, under certain conditions that the author enunciates. For instance, a crowd can calcutate the weight of an ox, the outcome of a […]

These are the most grotesque stereotypes or stupid stereotypes about Britain that I’ve read: Simon English writes for the Evening Standard: London is like the third world. He bases his claim in that […] from Heathrow to Holloway Road took, at four hours, nearly half as long as the flight across the Atlantic. Fair enough. […]