The new Coronavirus variants, immunity and vaccine effectiveness.2020 saw the world battling the most destructive pandemic seen in a hundred years. The SARS-2 Corona-virus had jumped from bats to humans…Jan 28, 2021Jan 28, 2021
The COVID-19 Pandemic at May 2020.Widespread pandemics have hit civilisation about once every 80 years or so since ancient times. The first recorded pandemic, the Plague of…May 3, 20201May 3, 20201
An effective medical intervention to contain COVID-19.Two Johns Hopkins Public Health Professors of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Arturo Casadevall and Liise-anne Pirofski, have proposed…Mar 15, 20201Mar 15, 20201
Facts and Fiction on the Coronavirus 19-nCoV Outbreak.Kris Vette was Border Controller for New Zealand’s H1N1 Pandemic response in 2009. Previously he managed General Medicine and Infectious…Mar 6, 20203Mar 6, 20203
The Genomic Editing Revolution — Humans using tech to repair themselves.The mechanism for life on earth is so simple and so spontaneous that it is both hard to believe that it could have happened (how could it…Jan 25, 2020Jan 25, 2020
How Individuals Can Win in a Complex World — Part IIIPart I gave an understanding of the complexity of the world, technology and social constructs that surround us. Part II explored how we…Dec 5, 2019Dec 5, 2019
How Individuals Can Win in a Complex World — Part IIPart I discussed the world that we now live in. It is complex, ever changing and uncertain. But to succeed in a rapidly evolving…Sep 29, 2019Sep 29, 2019
How Individuals can Win in a Complex WorldPreviously I have discussed ‘Lessons for Winning in the Networked Age’. Now I look at how individuals can win in this epoch of complexity.Sep 12, 2019Sep 12, 2019
How is data confirmed into a blockchain and why is that data trusted?Remember a blockchain is a network made up of ‘nodes’ (a computer or device with a microprocessor). Across that network of nodes, a…Jul 31, 2019Jul 31, 2019
