Demography – Hormonal Contraception Reduces Not Only the Birth Rate But Also the Desire to Give Birth

People in developed countries have had only one or two children in recent years, and  this applies, surprisingly, to all developed countries regardless of their previous history, whether they are traditionally Catholic countries such as Spain, Italy, Ireland and Poland, traditionally liberal and democratic states such as Britain, the USA, France and Sweden, Islamic countries such as Qatar, Kuwait,  Bahrain  and Turkey, Buddhist states such as Thailand, Japan and Singapore, a Confucian state such as Taiwan,

The Structure of SARS-CoV-2 is the Smoking Gun for its Lab Origin – All That is Known About the COVID-19 Origin with All Relevant References

History of the Coronaviruses and the Wuhan Institute of Virology

Coronaviruses (CoVs) have been broadly studied in China since 2003, and numerous new strains have been reported. Wuhan coronavirus scientist Dr. Shi Zheng-Li (called “Bat Woman“ by media) co-authored many of the publications (10). Shi, employed in Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), also worked on enhancing the ability of bat viruses to attack humans, supposedly to “examine the emergence  potential of  circulating  bat CoVs”, which  means their ability to “jump over  to  humans”.  Inter species

A Concise Overview of the Covid-19 Pandemic Dates: 2015-2022

2015
The leading Wuhan coronavirus scientist, Dr. Shi Zheng-Li, together with several US scientists modified a harmless bat coronavirus to be capable of infecting the human cells (1).

2017
Western scientists warned of possible virus leaks from laboratories in Wuhan (2).

Ranking All World Countries by Covid Mortality After Two Years with Covid-19 and Examining the Factors Affecting the Ranking

In the attached Table, the countries are listed according to the decreasing Covid-19 deaths per million people (mortality), as provided by the website Worldometers (here) on 10 January 2022; 70 countries out of 222 have been selected while keeping their world ranking. The world average values are also included (being between the 100^th and the 101^st country). Beside the country’s world  mortality ranking,  also included in the Table are the case fatality rate  (CFR, the ratio of the reported deaths and

How Much Carbon Dioxide Does Humankind Breathe out and How is Human Caloric Consumption Translated Into Its Total Power Output in Megawatts? How Does Human Energy Output Compare with the Fossil Power Plants?

Carbon dioxide production by the human body

Globally, electricity generation emits nearly 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, of which 60% are produced from fossil fuels, providing 6 billion tons CO2.

The Colossal Circus in Glasgow COP26 – and How Much Carbon is Exhaled by the Humans

The term colossal circus comes to mind for the COP26 conference on climate change in Glasgow. Cataclysmic climate madness is totally global and, unlike warming, threatens the whole of Western civilization.

Distinguishing Four Waves in the Covid-19 Pandemic Spread During the Last Year – Examining the Effects of Vaccination on the Last Wave

Corona waves

The graphs showing new daily corona cases and new daily deaths exhibit distinct and separate peaks in all countries over the last year of the pandemic, corresponding to several waves of Covid-19 infection (see Worldometers under individual countries). In many countries, the 1st wave occurred around April, the 2nd around August, the 3rd around November 2020, and the 4th around January 2021 (see Table 1).

Explaining One Year with Sars-Cov-2 and Covid-19 – Deciphering Distorted Data – Providing Actual Infection Rates and Final Deaths – Outlining the Epidemic End – Warning Against the RNA Vaccine

The text responds to the following questions

* What part of the population has really been infected by Covid-19?

* How quickly does Covid-19 spread in the population?

* How does the 2nd wave differ from the 1st one?

* How does the age affect the probability of death from Covid-19?

* What is the real lethality of Covid-19?

* What will be the final number of deaths?

* Do the protective measures help?

* How do the countries differ from each other?

* Which of 200 countries does handle Covid-19 optimally and which reasonably?

* How should the epidemic have been handled?

* When will the epidemic end?

* Is the vaccination needed?

For short responses go to the end of this text.

Data from Czechia, Israel, Sweden, and U.S. Show an Exponential Growth of the COVID-19 Mortality with Age – the Fraction of People Dying with COVID-19 Increases About Three Times for Every Ten Years of Age

The published data on Covid deaths in age groups (ten years range) in four countries (Czechia, Israel, Sweden, U.S.) have been combined with the age distributions in said countries (see Table 9). It can be seen that the deaths numbers (absolute, not recalculated per million people) seem to form approximately geometric series with a common ratio of between 2 and 4 till the age of about 75. More consistent geometric series are obtained till still higher ages by recalculating the deaths numbers in each

We Are Probably the Only Intelligent Observers in Our Universe, Thus Being Special Despite the Copernican Principle

A quick estimation of the number of human-like intelligent civilizations in our universe might go as follows. There are about (the word “about” will be omitted below, but should be assigned to every number) 200 billion stars in our galaxy, and there are 200 billion galaxies in the space from which the light has been able to reach us since the Big Bang 14 billion years ago. So there are 10²² stars.

All About Covid-19 While Standing on One Leg

Since the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic of 2019, I have been collecting publications from the daily press and professional journals on the disease and the coronavirus. At the end of July, I summarized information on the origin and properties of the virus and on its spread around the world, on morbidity and mortality values, on the response of different countries and the course of the disease in half a year, and from available data I further estimated the values ​​of actual lethality and the infection rate in different countries (see Corona Summary, shortly CorSum or CS).

5’-UTR of Coronaviruses Mutates Twice Slower Than the Whole Genome, SARS-CoV-2 Does Not Differ in This Respect

CORONAVIRUSES

Coronaviruses, particularly betacoronaviruses, belong among usual causative agents of the common cold and respiratory infection symptoms, together with common cold picornavirus, influenza viruses, adenoviruses, human respiratory syncytial virus, and parainfluenza viruses. Newly appeared strains caused epidemics of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), virus SARS-CoV-1 in 2003 and virus SARS-CoV-2 in 2019 (reviewed here).

A Half-Year Summary of COVID-19 Pandemic – Spread, Course, Comparing Countries, Handling in the World, SARS-Cov-2 Virus and Its Origin, Consequences, and the Way Out

Spreading of the epidemic over the globe – at one look

The WHO started to report about the coronavirus on 21 January 2020, when 309 cases were allegedly diagnosed in China, including 6 deaths; no cases in other countries were reported by then. The numbers of diagnosed cases in 15 selected countries over the first half of the year 2020 are presented in Table 1, which further includes the numbers of new daily cases, the sum of deaths  and  new  daily  deaths  (extracted   from   the  WHO  web  here), as well as  the  number  of  tests  (extracted from the

The Torment of Open Chernobyl Wounds – Hundreds of Thousands Died but Thousands Continued to Writhe in Pain

At the end of April, millions of former Soviet citizens commemorate the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor on April 26, 1986. The families of 6,000 Tajiks who were suddenly removed from Tajikistan in the spring of 1989 serve as an example; the young men were taken to "help build houses in Russia" and they reappeared only in the autumn of that year – changed beyond recognition  (here). The  Soviets  took  the  young  Tajiks  completely  unexpectedly  and  under false pretenses; the men found

State of the Corona World – Rating of the Countries According to Managing the Coronavirus Epidemics

The numbers of diseased and deceased with corona to a certain date can be found in the WHO website, and the numbers of performed tests in the WORLDOMETER site. In the following table, I have extracted the data for April 14 and adjusted them to reflect the population size for the majority of East Asian, West European, and North American countries. The table comprises the numbers of reported positive cases, death, and performed tests, as well as these values recalculated per 10 million people, which is an approximate population of Sweden, Portugal, Czechia, Hungary, Greece, Austria, Israel, Switzerland, and Hong Kong.

The Enhancement of Greenhouse Warming by Positive Feedback due to the Lower Solubility of CO2 Is Negligible

How much additional CO2 is released from the ocean in a positive feedback, when humans (or any other factor) add CO2 to the atmosphere thereby increasing temperature via stronger greenhouse effect and so reducing CO2 solubility in the ocean?

Climate Change on One Foot – Concise Arguments Against the Hypothesis of Human-Caused Global Warming

The actions against global warming are led by lobby groups organized under the UN and its climate arm – IPCC, being enthusiastically supported by media, entertainers, politicians, and activists involved in social studies. Many scientists and technically educated people understand that the actions are unreasonable and harmful, but they are often caught out by friends who ask: “How come you do not believe that human-caused warming exists? Have all the countries in the world not signed the Paris agreement on the climate change? Is there not a consensus among 97% of scientists about the warming?” We should be ready to respond to our friends.

From the End of Vitalism in 1828 to Overtaking Control Over the Evolution and Nearly over Our Fate in 2128

We are witnesses of an exponential increase – explosion – of our knowledge about ourselves, about our origin and about the substance we are made of. No sooner we have completely recognized our structure, than we are starting to change it. There is still a lot to learn about the mechanisms shaping the quality and length of our lives, but we start to edit our DNA and our future as well.  The  dreams of  ancient alchemists about the  transmutation  of  base metals into  noble ones have come true, and now

The Biggest Patent Litigation in Biotechnology over CRISPR/Cas9 – a Technology for Editing of Our DNA Will Enable Editing of Our Future

CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) is a region in the genome of most archea and of about a half of all bacteria, playing a role in a cellular defense system against viruses. The region integrates samples of the invading viral DNA, to be later used for the virus recognition and destruction. Adjacent to the CRISPR region, there is CAS region (Crisper Associated System or Crisper ASsociated)  coding  for nucleases  for cleaving the viral DNA. A  nucleoprotein complex  derived

Brain-Eating Amoeba was not Resistant to Brainwashing Media

      The mass media in the whole world have dramatically reported that a brain-eating amoeba is responsible for recent killing of at least ten people in the Pakistani city of Karachi. The causative agent, amoeba Naegleria fowleri, is known to grow in warm waters and enter via nose to the brain, where it destroys the tissue and causes death within a week [1].

      Surprisingly, the most serious case occurred in a European country: 16 young people died in Czechoslovakia between 1962