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Bill Gates is worth listening. He is smart and has access to the best sources of information. He also does a lot for the humanity and does what he can to secure the great future for our children and greatchildren.

Parenting is a full-time job with great responsibility, a lot of risks and low reward. Well, we don’t think so when start doing it. And that is good. Otherwise, very few people would do it.

War is bad by any account. Once it has touched you, you become convinced that those who wage it have no excuses.

Communism fueling my hope again. It happened many times in the history when seemingly discarded and almost forgotten ideas came back again on a new level of understanding.

Pyramids, Stonehenge, Göbekli Tepe. Why spend so much time and energy? What was the motivation for building them?

Truth is not relative, and yet we discover that it changes as we learn new facts. Even facts seem to depend on the interpretation.

Future is happening faster than we thought. It is happening now… Sometimes it hurts, but it will come anyway.

Murphy’s Law: If anything can go wrong, it will. Parkinson’s Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Peter Principle: In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. In time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out […]

Reading about the research into the human life span extension is fascinating. One of the researches – Aubrey De Grey from Cambridge University – estimates that in 25 years from now, people will start living 1,000 years and more. By the way, De Grey is also an international adjunct professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics […]

Civilization and its development depend on the availability of the resources and the skills to utilize them. The Middle East and Europe had in this respect a definite advantage.