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Children’s Cancer vs The Manhattan Project

$100 million a month was spent on the Manhattan project during WW2. In 1946, after the war, a measly $1 million a year was spent on children’s cancer research.

How would the world change if we set up enormous efforts to cure diseases like cancer, build true sustainable life off the planet earth?

Immigration

The question of immigration can be simplified to a trade off between freedom and security. It would be wonderful for everyone in the world to have the liberty of choosing where they live and under what type of government. On the other hand, you have situations like the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and around the world by foreigners.… read more “Immigration”

Antivirus Companies Create Viruses

Just as I long suspected and wrote about in previous posts, antivirus companies have been creating their own malware.  They have a huge financial incentive to create malware that their software can resolve as this will lead to more sales. I always thought the owners would be smarter though and would pay cash under the table secretly to outside programming teams, not their own regular employees.

Mega Wasps

I have been listening to Great Courses course on biology each morning when I work out. The recent lectures have been on evolution and genetic engineering…

So last night I had a dream that I was a biologist and engineered a mega wasp that was intelligent as humans and had a sting that killed and was resistant to cold, heat, insecticide and could photosynthesise.… read more “Mega Wasps”

Tired

I’ve been working 60-70 hours a week, working out hard every day and in my spare hour in the evenings reading business books. I am tired and my patience feels thin. I need to re-energize myself.