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Here's an interesting excerpt from one of my favorite books ''Think and Grow Rich'' by Napoleon Hill. I only realized the significance of the excerpt below, while reading through the related chapter for how we are mentally and physically affected as humans by what we think, feel, read. Amidst the Covid19 era, this book, chapter and paragraph are very contemporary. '' During the flu epidemic which  broke out during the world war, the mayor of New York City took drastic steps to check the damage which people were doing themselves through the inherent fear of ill health. He called in the newspaper men and said to them, Gentlemen, I feel it necessary to ask you not to publish any scare headlines concerning the flu epidemic. The newspapers quit publishing stories about the flu and within one month the epidemic had been successfully checked.'' You can buy the book ''Think and Grow Rich'' here:  https://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Landmar...

Here is my personal comment on the much discussed eurobond for dealing with Covid-19 after effects in EE and Eurozone economies: '' #Germany saying no to a new eurobond requested by other member countries where Covid-19 is ravaging their economies, proves once again to have very weak memory. In 1953, 20 countries in London, agreed to help Germany with deleting 52% of its post war debt and reformed the rest of debt in accepting long term loans and payments only if Germany secured annual budget surpluses. If this agreement had not taken place, they would still struggle to lift up after WWII. EU is on the brink of dissolution.'' - Stathis Kassios An interesting Chinese proverb which sounds like an oxymoron to my ears amidst this global health crisis: <<Να προβλέπεις το κακό πριν συμβεί. Να βάζεις τάξη πριν ξεσπάσει ταραχή>> - Κινεζική παροιμία, από το βιβλίο της  Stephanie Bessiere Another interesting article via FP (Foreign Policy): The ...

Would you delete your social media accounts to feel healthier? Share your thoughts in the comments section. ''Jaron Zepel Lanier is an American computer philosophy writer, computer scientist, visual artist, and composer of classical music. Considered a founding father of the field of virtual reality, Lanier and Thomas G. Zimmerman left Atari in 1985 to found VPL Research, Inc., the first company to sell VR goggles and gloves. In the late 1990s, Lanier worked on applications for Internet2, and in the 2000s, he was a visiting scholar at Silicon Graphics and various universities. In 2006 he began to work at Microsoft, and from 2009 has worked at Microsoft Research as an Interdisciplinary Scientist. Lanier has composed classical music and is a collector of rare instruments; his acoustic album, Instruments of Change (1994) features Asian wind and string instruments such as the khene mouth organ, the suling flute, and the sitar-like esraj. Lanier teamed with Mario Grigorov to c...