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The Bay
At my age a thought starts to emerge like a small moth flapping at the window: what will it be like to age, to die? It is not a great age, fifty-one, but it is an age where one can speak of experience. More than half a century to look back on, five times older…
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fidel
Fidel, our cat
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taurus
20 x 20 cm, acrylic on canvas
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spring
spring flowers
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Laudatory Speech for Helen Caldicott
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The Nuclear Chain – Splitting Atoms, Hairs and Personalities
It is no coincidence that one speaks of the civilian and military use of nuclear energy. There is nuclear energy on the one hand and on the other there is the way it is used. It can create a nuclear explosion or it can be harnessed to make electricity, but intrinsically, it is the same…
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On Worms and Firewalls
In a previous post, I made fun of the latest news about alleged alien intervention, cyberwar and men who stare at goats. But behind the mockery, there is an emerging problem that we need to address: The technological “fix”. The tendency to search for technological solutions to what are often ethical or even moral questions…
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capricorn
20×20 cm, canvas, acrylics
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sagittarius
20 x 20 cm, acrylic on canvas
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Aliens, Cyberwar and other curiosities
At last I feel mitigated in my avid viewing of „The Next Generation“ and „Doctor Who“, for it seems that I am psychologically equipped for the reports of aliens tampering with the nuclear deterrent. I am not in the least phased by this, in fact I welcome our green friends to join “Global Zero” along…
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