Over the last years, and most recently, topics related to white privilege come up continuously. Of course, it depends on what is in your newsfeed and who you follow on social media, but I can state that I read about the topics daily. I perceive this as positive as well as challenging. The topic of […]
How we get wiser, is what we do with opportunities, adversities and disappointments. The coronavirus pandemic has taken us off guard. All of us, including the many specialists who were open and honest in their statements that they did not know how COVID-19 would affect the people in the world. Some were faster to realize […]
Media reports on COVID-19: Please, the severity of symptoms experienced by those who are infected, is not age-related, it is health related. The issue may be more complicated as some people are more vulnerable than others due to how their immune system reacts to the COVID-19 virus. In Italy a quarter of the cases were […]
I surely hope I am not alone getting increasingly fed up with the perpetuating myth of the so-called Boomers versus Millennials (the X-ers are conveniently glanced over). I wonder where this all originated from, but it definitely is not based on truth, honesty or scientific findings. This morning, again, I found a column of […]
What inspires me… Happy New year! The right question might not be what, but who inspires me. Yesterday I read an article in the Globe and Mail about an academic in Alberta Canada who is bothered about the use of pseudoscience and misinformation to promote and sell health and wellness products and trends. Professor Caulfield […]
