Golem of Prague – CRISPR Craze – Designer babies will accelerate global warming Golem of Prague Around the 16th century in Prague, the Jewish community was under brutal anti-Semitic attacks under the rule of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II. Judah Loew ben Bezalel (Maharal) was the rabbi of Prague at the time. He couldn’t Read More
The Mouse to Elephant Curve – Dinner with Rev’d Thomas Robert Malthus – In Case you are Wondering, Nero killed Saint Peter and Paul. The Mouse to Elephant Curve We learn a lot of secrets when we scale things. Scientists have observed scaling in nature and helped us unravel some mysteries embedded in nature via Read More
Cédric Villani is a French mathematician, who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010 (one of the highest award in the field of mathematics). He specializes in partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. I recently listened to his talk at the Royal institution on the birth of ideas. It’s a pretty neat talk, Read More
“…IT’S PRETTY OBVIOUS, THE MIDDLE TOP IS THE SWEET SPOT” Benjamin Franklin wrote: “Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries…” In the same vein, the British economist William Stanley Jevons also said the following words, “In all probability the errors Read More
FreeImages.com/Miranda Knox Have you ever thought of why you had to check your email inbox all day long in anticipation of a message you aren’t expecting? Or why about 315 million adults are addicted to illicit drugs? Well, for the most part, there is a great deal of congruency in the answers to the aforementioned Read More