Thousands and thousands killed in wars. Soldiers labeled ‘legitimate targets’ and killed civilians referred to as ‘collateral damage’ (if they belong to ‘the enemy’ group). An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Is this the world we want to live in? Ralph and I have had so…
Chaos, complexity or incomprehension (Pt.1) No one can fail to recognise that there is a myriad of entities that make up the body of knowledge and understanding of our existence. Everyone is likely to agree that humans, and other living things, may also conceive that their survival might be linked…
A simple view of a meaningful life and its global importance I Ralph Edwards and Marie Lindquist There are three Oxford Language aspects of ‘meaningful’: important, consequential and sincere, denoting that meaningful includes something that has current as well as ongoing significance and can be trusted as wholehearted and not…
The sun is shining. Sharp spring sunlight, mercilessly revealing dirty window panes and dusty surfaces. I'm going out. Here, the bright light is good. Warming, uplifting. I feel the will to live. Reborn. The joy of existing. To meet spring once again. To be there when nature comes to life.…
Självklart visste jag att det någon gång skulle bli ett slut på Nordegren & Epstein i P1. Men jag blev förvånad över hur starkt jag reagerade när beskedet väl kom. Jag förstår att det, efter 12 år, kan vara dags att göra något annat. Allt har sin tid. Förändring behövs…
The challenges Lots of people. How do they live? There are more people than the world can sustain without ever more technical interventions. Does anyone consider the energy these interventions might need to satisfy the richer and most able financially, who manipulate their personal economies so well? More humans, more…
Ivor Ralph (Rafe) Edwards The title is from something my father used to say. I always thought it rather odd. Surely the more one knows the better? Today, we are overwhelmed by information and data. As I get older I process it more slowly, as colleagues, friends and family have…
On warfare, propaganda and difficult choices The government of Sweden has now abandoned a 200-year-old strategy to keep out of formal military alliances. There may well be compelling reasons for a change – many politicians argue that there are - but the forced pace of this decision and the lack…
Last time I went to the airport I heard a woman saying to her friend “Isn’t it odd that we managed to put people on the moon before figuring out that it would be a good idea to put wheels on suitcases”. Quite so, I thought. In the 1960s we…
Att tro att det finns total objektivitet och EN sanning i infekterade politiska debatter förefaller naivt, i vissa fall rentav på gränsen till livsfarligt. Många hänvisar till att de ’lyssnat till vetenskapen’ när de uttalar sig i olika frågor. Men vad betyder det egentligen? De flesta forskare vinnlägger sig om…