We cannot take care of ourselves if we do not take care of nature

Why are we not taking care of ourselves?

Every breath we take.

Of all the risk factors for premature death, the air we breathe is one area over which patients and doctors have little control. In cities health professionals care for patients in environments where air pollution can aggravate existing illness, mostly cardiovascular and respiratory disease, and also damage children’s hearts and lungs as they develop. Today we report that more than half of 2200...

We Do It Ourselves

In Philips there is a need for many competent software developers. Not for everyone in the company software development is a real engineering activity. They claim that there are no fundamental theories underlying software and software construction. On the other hand, only a few universities offer a curriculum in software engineering, most curricula deal with computer science. Since ten years we...

Neuroscience: What We Cannot Model, We Do Not Understand

To understand computations in neuronal circuits, a model of a small patch of cortex has been developed that can describe the firing regime in the visual system remarkably well.

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet