Month May 2025
China Impressions 2025 – Part I: Street Life, Science, and the Rule of Law
A Personal Return On December 6, 2019, I left China. Nearly six years passed before I set foot on Chinese soil again, and the fascination I had once felt returned instantly. This travelogue begins with two statements: Western antagonism—bans on…
China Impressions 2025 – Part II: Merit, Markets, and Political Imagination
Governing Systems: Time to Rethink Assumptions Western democracies operate on the assumption that universal suffrage and electoral competition inherently produce better governance. This assumption deserves scrutiny. Is there any empirical guarantee that a democracy always results in better outcomes for…
China
Human history has witnessed two grand civilizational and cultural experiments: China and Europe. As Jared Diamond suggests, the Neolithic Revolution—the dawn of agriculture and settled life—occurred independently in three major regions: the Fertile Crescent (around modern-day Baghdad), the Yellow River…
Quasi 518 – Natural Wine and the Best Norcineria in Town
I’m sitting inside Quasi 518, a small aperitif bar on Via Cavour—the short stretch of the street that lies on the city side. I’m becoming a regular at this place, despite my “conflictual” relationship with natural wine. And here, there…
Knowledge clustering PD and PE
This is the first step in our project to analyze a significant chunk of literatur regarding Parkinson disease and Physical exercise (PD and PE) Study Semantic Clustering of Parkinson’s Disease Literature This project implements an automated pipeline to extract, analyze,…