Today is the final day of Easter, but I feel little peace. The Iranian hospital in Dubai was shut down this month due to the Iran war. This is for the first time since it opened in 1972. My aunt was asked to work there and eventually became the hospital’s director until her retirement. ThereContinueContinue reading
Category Archives: Systems Sciences
We approach Halloween, a festival for commemoratin So this post will follow a brief history of attempts to bring order to the chaos of human existence. As for the question that ended the previous post, is this such a surprise when humans kill their own species over six times more than mammals on average do?ContinueContinue reading
This Christmas I was so sad to see Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, a ghost town due to the Israel-Gaza conflict. With the UN High Commissioner for Refugees warning of the ‘world’s current extreme disorder’, it came as no surprise when I came across the book End Times (2023) by Peter Turchin. Turchin, a professorContinueContinue reading
This week I sat on my first ever panel discussion for a film festival, arranged by the Awareness Film Festival – they officially selected my film Letitia for 2021. The panel was titled: It’s a Global Thing. The festival usually only screens in Los Angeles, but due to COVID, this year was a hybrid event,ContinueContinue reading