AGNOSCERE. An open house to global citizens

 Post No. 44. Geopolitics Geopolitics is not a dead terminology. The effects of Geography and political power are still relevant, and the effects increase with the digital changes but the changes in technology are not always welcome as we can see how demonstrations around the world are shaping a new society. Geopolitics interconnect people around the world and has acquired new facets thanks to digital technology may be transmitted globally in seconds and the effects worldwide are unpredictable

Post No 43. Massive explosion in Beirut.  The massive explosion on last Tuesday August 4 th in Beirut has left much of the city destroyed and about at least 150 casualties ,5000 or more injured and about 300,000 left homeless.   The death toll is likely to rise. The cause has been not been determined and the leading version is the explosion of about 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate, a chemical compost that is used as fertilizer but also as an ingredient in explosives. The material arrived at Beirut in 2013 in a Russian – owned cargo ship and reports says it was bound for Mozambique. The material was impounded and unloaded due to a legal dispute over port fees and the shipping company was in debt. In 2015 public demonstrations claimed corruption and infighting over solid waste contracts. Since the blast, some port officials have been placed under house arrest.   It is possible that the real cause was a series of acts of neglect on massive scale.   An investigative com...

Post No. 42. Final Disposition of Gloves and masks and other PPE in times of COVID-19. The general idea has been developed is that when a product is consumed and deposited in a garbage dump and collected by the local collection trucks, the problem is solved. In reality, what is being done is transferring the problem of solid waste contamination from one place to another. The   real problem we are facing until now is that water, air, and soil had been contaminated and as a consequence of this the proliferation of vectors are offensive to public health and may be a factor to spread viruses that affect us and bring epidemics and even more serious pandemics like COVID-19 and this is quite alarming. The consequences are not reflected only in public health and financial but threat the future of our society in every country of the world. There is a news source of contamination and this time is caused by COVID-19 appeared.   As masks and gloves are required and most of...

Post No. 41. The column of Marcus Aurelius is a Roman victory column in Piazza Colonna,  Rome ,  Italy . It is a Doric column featuring a spiral relief. It was built in honour of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and modeled on Trajan’s Column. Because the original dedicatory inscription has been destroyed, it is not known whether it was built during the emperor’s reign (on the occasion of the triumph over the Marcomann, Quadi, and Sarmations in the year 173) or after his death in 180; however, an inscription found in the vicinity attests that the column was completed by 193. In terms of Topography of ancient  Rome , the column stood on the north part of the Campus Martius, in the center of a square. This square was either between the  temple  of  Hadrian  and the  temple  of  Marcus Aurelius  (dedicated by his son Commodus, of which nothing now remains), or within the latter’s sacred precincts, of which nothing remains. The col...

Post No. 40. Quantum Computers. COVID-19 or Coronavirus is growing in an exponential way, but we don’t have to be scare with this term. It helps to track the speed of a disease and provide important information to provide assistance to vulnerable locations and patients. We need to identify the real enemy that is the time to find a cure. Everyday people around the globe ask for a vaccine. This is not an easy task and will take years to find one. The human body needs to be exposed to a vaccine and the immune system should develop a strong memory of the pathogen. It is necessary to weaken the pathogen and it is done by growing several generations of pathogens in environments other than human cells. Mutant strains of pathogens should be selected. (Dr. Roohi Bansal, Biotechnologist and PHD in Molecular Biology) Critical trials (research studies performed in people that are aimed at evaluating a medical, surgical, or behavioral intervention. NIH) are necessary but this process c...

Post No. 39. Pizza. Pizza is a savory dish of Italian origin, consisting of a usually round, flattened base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various ingredients (anchovies, olives, meat, etc.) baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven. Food similar to pizza have been made since the Neolithic Age. Records of people adding other ingredients to bread to make it more flavorful can be found throughout ancient history. In the 6 th century BC, the Persian soldiers of Achaemenid Empire during the rule King Darius I baked flatbread with cheese and dates on top of their battle shields. An early reference to a pizza-like food occurs in the Aeneid, when Celaeno queen of the Harpies, foretells that the Trojans would not find peace until they are forced by hunger to eat their tables (Book III). IN Book VII, Aeneas and his men are served a meal that include round cakes (like pita bread) topped with cooked vegetables. When they eat...

Post No. 38. Albert Einstein and the Civil Rights in America In 1946, Albert Einstein, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist traveled to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania the first school in America to grand college degrees to black Americans. He received an honorary degree and gave a lecture on relativity to the Lincoln students. This visit was ignored by the mainstream press. According to the authors Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor, authors of “Einstein on Race and Racism” these omissions need to be recognized and corrected. Einstein was Jewish and was victim of racism, threats and harassment while working at the University of Berlin during the Nazi Germany. He found similarities between American segregation and the treatment of Jews in Germany. In January 1946, Einstein offered public encouragement to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and its founder. W.E.B.   Du Bois. In 1951, when the federal government indicted the 83-year-old ...