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    The molecular line between life and death

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/03/2023

    » 'We are but one very small company [among] many hundreds of companies using AI software for drug discovery and de novo design. How many of them have ... the know-how to find the pockets of chemical space that can be filled with molecules predicted to be orders of magnitude more toxic than VX?" This is a warning that requires a little explanation.

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    Do we need more rockets in the stratosphere?

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 27/08/2021

    » If you're worried about your "carbon footprint" -- a concept foisted on the world in 2004 by British Petroleum to persuade people that their own behaviour, and not giant oil companies like BP, is causing the climate problem -- then you definitely should not sign up for a sub-orbital space flight. Besides, you probably can't afford it (US$250,000 -- about 8 million baht -- per person).

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    Can insurance come to our climate rescue?

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/06/2023

    » California's fall from grace has been steep and swift, and now even the insurance companies are pulling out. The two biggest American home insurance companies, State Farm and Allstate, announced last week that they will stop selling insurance policies to Californians. Why? Climate change-related wildfires are making it too risky to insure Californian houses.

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    Ukraine: Will Western tanks bring victory?

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 31/01/2023

    » On Tuesday last week, they reset the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds before midnight. How did they know that Germany would agree to give Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine on Wednesday? Now we're all doomed! No time to run! Ninety seconds is barely time to tuck your head between your knees and kiss goodbye.

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    The industrialisation of space

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/01/2022

    » It will be a bumper year for big space launches to the Moon, Mars, and asteroids, including many manned flights, but the real shocker is the number of satellites and spaceships being launched by private companies.

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    Norway, oil and the issue of climate change

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/10/2021

    » You can see why Saudi Arabia wants to go on pumping as much oil as it can. Oil exports account for 87% of the Saudi government budget and 42% of GDP. The Saudi population, now 35 million, is growing by two-thirds of a million a year, and the country already imports 80% of its food. They'd be starving in a few years if they stopped pumping.

  • OPINION

    Peru on edge after Castillo's election victory

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/08/2021

    » Peru holds the current record for revolving presidents -- three came and went in a month last November; for coronavirus deaths -- almost 6,000 per million, and for the youngest-looking president -- seen from afar, under his trademark straw hat, he looks like a 13-year-old boy. But appearances are deceiving.

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    Some good news on the climate front

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/06/2021

    » 'I see a huge and growing gap between the rhetoric and the reality," said Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency, two weeks ago, but he despaired a bit too soon. Last Wednesday a Dutch court ruled that Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world's biggest oil companies, must cut its global carbon dioxide emissions by 45% by 2030.

  • OPINION

    Iran: Yet another nuclear bungle?

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/02/2021

    » The self-esteem of two-year-olds and nation states is too fragile for them to admit they were wrong, which makes it hard for them to move on from blunders. That's why the toys don't get picked up and the broken treaties don't get fixed, and why there may be a tantrum (in the case of two-year-olds) or a nuclear war (in the case of the United States and Iran).

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    Dark winter ahead but jab miracles await

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/11/2020

    » All the usual caveats apply: don't go out and celebrate, don't let your guard down, it's still going to be a long haul.

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