After publishing the previous post, I also found another fascinating graph, this time from the article on War and Heat: India under pressure: The fertiliser production depends on gas; as the LPG be…

After publishing the previous post, I also found another fascinating graph, this time from the article on War and Heat: India under pressure:

Using AI wisely AI generated with a prompt: Generate an image on the theme of “using generative AI wisely”. Gary Marcus writes a very interesting but also very sceptical Substack on gen…

Anthropic and Pentagon I have been planning to write a longer post on what AI I am using, but I have been too busy to produce a satisfactory post. Also, my approach has been changing recently, as I…

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I occasionally receive very nice letters from scientists seeking to join my group at the University of Strathclyde. Very often, the e-mails come from people whose first (or even second or third) language is not English. I understand that they might want to use any available resources to help in crafting what possibly could be the most important letter in their career.

On using AI-enabled browsers I use a variety of browsers, and always like to try something new. But not all that is new is good. Although I have been using Apple products for many years, I never bo…

It is going to be a very short post today. We increasingly see that companies like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google are starting to use our personal data and content we create to train generative AI …

It is indeed one of the most important graphs of the 2020s. Sadly, for their own reasons, politicians missold the vaccination and that created a backlash. We lost people’s trust. This is what…

It is going to be a very short post today. We increasingly see that companies like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google are starting to use our personal data and content we create to train generative AI models that create content. In other words, can they use our content to generate more content, without our knowledge and explicit permission?

The US is at a tipping point for the return of measles and possibly other vaccine-preventable diseases. Other countries might follow if the vaccination levels drop below the herd immunity threshold.

A graph a day, 28th April 2025 I have recently started reading a new book on Tuberculosis by John Green. TB has been a huge problem for centuries. Even as I was a student in Poland in the 1980s, we…

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I have just missed the five-year anniversary of my first COVID-19 post on this blog. On Thursday, 12th March 2020, I wrote an article that became the start of an exciting journey. Given the amount of pandemic suffering, I wish it had been a different…

To all my readers, all the best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you for your patience as I am starting to catch up on posting and other activities. The 6 months since my la…

To all my readers, all the best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you for your patience as I am starting to catch up on posting and other activities. The 6 months since my last post here have been crazily busy, and it was very…

A graph a day… 23rd July 2024 Immigration is one of the biggest challenges the societies – and politicians – across the globe are facing. There are both a push and a pull. As aspirations rise, the social and economic progress in many countries does…

A graph a day… 22nd July 2024 Populations across the globe are getting older. The advances in health care and their affordability mean that people across the globe are living longer. At the same time, the birthrate has been plummeting, so there is no…

A graph a day… 5th July 2024 People in the UK have chosen new Members of Parliament (MPs), and although not unexpected, the results are still very interesting. Due to the voting system – First-Past-the-Post – which means that only one person is…

Life in the tropics is often dangerous. Hot and humid conditions not only directly affect health but are also ideal for pests and diseases. Research is one way in which tropical diseases can be combated. But, very little investment goes into diseases…