Science in troubled times

Science in times of war.

Somehow the first person I remember when I think of it is Karl Wulfert, a German naturalist who was living and working near Leipzig right from the start of WWII (1939) and through the whole war till the end of it.

For example, here's one of his papers "Die Rädertiere der deutschen Thermen" (Rotifers of German Thermal Springs) https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Lotos_88_0246-0262.pdf

Breslau (Wrocław, Poland) and Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary, Czechia) are yet German territory. On the map in the paper there aren't any borders (only German, Czech and Polish toponyms). The war however is at its top - ongoing Leningrad blockade, The Battle of Stalingrad (a turning point) is about to happen. More than a million people are being killed in Auschwitz, a complex of German concentration camps near the Polish town Oświęcim.

And a nice quiet German gentleman is traveling around the ponds and springs with a sampler and hydrobiological net, catching microscopic life and describing new species of animals.

I wonder how much thought he was giving to other things around him.

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Cancer at a certain point goes to metastasis.
Our pour planet, the malignant process in your prostate seem to send metastases in many other organs, including your brain.

Because the brain was too afraid to go for chemotherapy and surgery in time. And now it's everywhere.

My Russian uncle died from brain cancer a year ago. All this time he was telling my mom (his sister) that Putin does everything right and we'll soon be saved.

Can the heart still save the stupid brain?