Peter Biro, at The Blogs

Jun 29, 2021, 12:13 AM

The inevitable compassion with the underdog

The Collins Dictionary explains the term “underdog” as follows: The underdog in a competition or situation is the person who seems least likely to succeed or win. In other words, the underdog is an inherently inferior party to the...

Apr 23, 2020, 10:24 PM

About the dangers of prolonged home quarantine

It has been long enough explained how important is to isolate oneself in the times of a virulent pandemic. We were told to restrict our freedom of movement and to sit still on the sofa for as long as...

Apr 3, 2020, 7:27 PM

Interview with a corona virus

Directly on the door handle to the parking garage under the opera house, I unexpectedly met Virginia Crown, a female coronavirus who was just about to ambush an unprotected opera visitor. Careful as I am, I wore gloves when...

Jan 9, 2019, 11:16 AM

An evolutionary approach to understanding xenophobia and anti-Semitism

Xenophobia is a widespread phenomenon in all human cultures and manifests itself in a variety of forms: from aversion to strange-looking, foreign neighbours with their unfamiliar behaviour, to a genocide against a group of people, preferably a defenceless minority,...

Dec 30, 2018, 2:57 PM

About the origins of the Ashkenazi Jews

We live in times of vividly proliferating political correctness, when deviating remarks from the declared “all humans are equal” attitude is met with vociferous rejection of real or self-declared progressives. Dealing with differences in ethnicity, or even with so-called...

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As a single child of Shoa survivors, he emigrated from socialist Romania to Germany in 1970. Two decades later he moved to Switzerland, where he works as a Senior Physician and Professor of Anesthesiology. Occasionally he writes satirical short stories in German literature magazines and in Romaninan for the Transylvanian online journal Baabel.ro

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