Author: Yeri Tiete

  • Abortion

    Abortion

    I’m pro-Becky who found out at her 20-week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life sustaining organs. I’m pro-Susan who was sexually assaulted on her way home from work, only to come to the horrific realization that her assailant planted his seed in…

  • Changing from a car-centric Paris to a cycling city

    I’ve not been in Paris since 2015, I believe. Feel like I should probably pop-by again and see if it really changed that much. I remember it to be mostly one big traffic jam with all the 2 and 3 wheeled motorcyclists racing in between. It would be interesting to see if other major cities…

  • Web 3.0

    Web 3.0

    Web 3 goes against the core promise of the internet which tries to be a great equalizer. The Web was about making information accessible to all, Web 3 is trying to provide value to a few, where everything is done for the benefit of the few rather than benefit of all. Web 2 gave us…

  • 3M PFOS

    3M PFOS

    Several layers of corruption. Bring forth the criminal charges and put these people in prison. […] Last year she found out her 65-year-old mother had 1,100 micrograms of PFOS per liter of blood—a concentration more typically found in industrial wastewater. Her 68-year-old father had about 800. Her 19-year-old daughter tested at 300. D’Hollander’s own level…

  • Photojournalism

  • Car-centric cities

    Car-centric cities

    Having been fortunate enough to have seen quite a few parts of the world, and having been in Singapore for 6 years now — I’ve been able to start comparing places and looking at the “where next” question. With Ila on the way, both as a parent and if I were a kid still —…

  • It’s hard to explain evil: mental illness

    It’s hard to explain evil: mental illness

    If we cast a wider net and examine violence more broadly, evidence suggests mental illness does not cause violence. Large epidemiological studies have shown that rates of violence among people with mild-to-moderate mental illnesses range from 2%–4%, compared to 1%-3% in the general population. One of the strongest longitudinal studies, called the MacArthur Violence Risk…

  • Charleroi metro line that never opened

  • Molten Iron Fireworks