Tag Archives: India

It’s all Chinese to me

I have to say London is always open for business: https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-to-approve-massive-china-embassy-london/ Dec 2nd, 2025 Update: Starmer delays decision to approve Embassy: https://news.sky.com/story/government-delays-chinese-super-embassy-decision-again-13478365 And seems so is the United States of America: xAI to deploy Telsa Megapacks at Colossus II supercomputing … Continue reading

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Religious Mafia

I am reproducing a Substack piece by Chris Hedges:    When Religious Mafia & Rightwing Extremists Take Over (w/ Rollo Romig) | The Chris Hedges Report The 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and activist, is indicative of … Continue reading

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Captagon

After Assad fled, one news item stayed in my head. A warehouse filled to the ceiling with the drug, Captagon. The comment was that this was the favourite drug of Jihadists. So today I found out more, reading this link: … Continue reading

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Cotton and Wool Blending

Like much of our knowledge and language, the word ‘cotton’ comes from Arabic ‘quton’. As with wool and silk, so cotton is a natural fabric and is comfortable to the most sensitive skin. It is soft yet strong; is absorbent; … Continue reading

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O2

There is an excellent Forbes of India article on how oxygen is made for use by patients in hospital. There are three different ways: Vacuum Insulated Evaporator: Storage system of liquid oxygen 2. Oxygen Cylinders: hold oxygen under pressure 3. … Continue reading

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Generic Drug Supply and Raw Materials Supply

In March 2021, Boris Johnson, Prime Minister, announced the UK was acquiring 10m doses from the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer and the key source of doses for Covax, a vaccine-sharing agreement on which poor and middle-income countries are relying. … Continue reading

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Will we be Fishless?: Part III

Discovered in the 1920s, antibiotics have saved tens of millions of lives from pneumonia, tuberculosis, meningitis and a host of deadly bacteria. But, as with all things we do as humans, we get in the habit of overdoing everything. Overuse … Continue reading

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Clean Water Shortages Worldwide: how to fight disease, such as Covid-19?

“According to a point of Buddhism, water is the most valuable and most important thing because of its connection with disease,” says the monastery’s facilities manager, Urgyan. “Clean water helps everything: healthy body, healthy mind.” https://www.sapiens.org/culture/nepal-water-insecurity/?utm_source=SAPIENS.org+Subscribers&utm_campaign=e84aebb98d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_18b7e41cd8-e84aebb98d-227345396&ct=t() India, March 2020 “The … Continue reading

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The Significance of Aurochs

During the Pliocene, the colder climate caused an extension of open grassland, which led to the evolution of large grazers, such as wild bovines. Bos acutifrons is an extinct species of cattle that has been suggested as an ancestor for … Continue reading

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Mesoamerican “cradle of civilisation” and the Osmec head sculptures

66 million years ago a massive asteroid hit the Gulf of Mexico. This resulted in what we now call the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Amazingly, much of the earth healed eventually, and new creatures evolved to replace those which had been … Continue reading

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