As anyone who has been following the situation in Poland over the last year knows, the government has centralised control over media (now the head of state media is appointed by the minister of culture), the constitutional court (well, they basically castrated it), the prosecutors (the minister of justice was […]
Vad är det som gör folk så arga på PiS? Är vi helt enkelt bara dåliga förlorare? Eller ligger det något annat, djupare bakom? Det var en lång twitter-tråd (läs hela!) av Ben Stanley som hjälpte mig att sätta tummen på det som gnagt länge: This is a classic example […]
Det pågår en diabetesepidemi i världen. WHO räknar med att över 420 miljoner människor lever med diabetes och att sjukdomen bidrar till drygt 3 miljoner dödsfall varje år. Det finns två typer av diabetes: typ 1 som är en autoimmunsjukdom där kroppens immunförsvar attackerar de insulinproducerande betacellerna; och typ 2 där […]
I ett försök att liva upp min halvdöda blogg, och skriva om något jag faktiskt borde ha koll på, så bestämde jag mig för att skriva en kort förklarande text på svenska om mina publikationer. Tanken är att lägga till en ny post varje gång en ny artikel accepteras. Jag […]
Every year when EF, a company specialising in private English instruction, publishes its “English Proficiency Index” we get a host of press reports enthusing about how high Poland (or Sweden) is ranked. This year, Poland is on tenth place in the world, and Sweden on third. But is it true? […]
The results of the latest yearly bicycling measurements (Warszawski Pomiar Ruchu Rowerowego 2016) were just presented. During several days in the beginning of June the number of bicyclists passing by some 50-odd places in Warsaw were counted and catalogued. Since this is a set of measurements that have been repeated […]
Our local cemetary on All saints evening 2009. In Poland they like putting out grave lights on All saints. It makes for nice pictures. This year it was raining the whole evening, so I post this photo from a few years back instead.
Who is actually doing most of the work in a science lab? In my lab, I can say for sure that it ain’t me. I have a goal to be able to spend at least one day a week in the lab to avoid having the students installing professor’s buttons* […]
Jotunheimen, probably Norway’s most famous national park, like its (almost) namesake is rugged and mountainous, although the giant-population seems to be quite sparse. In the south-west of the park the mountain-range Hurrungane contains some of Norway’s most recognised alpine peaks. This is where I went with Swedish Expeditions (that I […]
A few days ago a friend asked me to take some pictures of her garden. It’s a typical, if unusually well-kept Polish działka; a small garden where families in the town and cities are supposed to relax, socialise, grow fruits and veggies. In Warsaw, large areas are cordoned off as […]
