Showing posts with label resistance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resistance. Show all posts

Friday, September 08, 2023

Flirting with danger: A play based on the true story of 3 Dutch women who lured Nazi soldiers to their deaths

Unfortunately, we do not learn how many they killed. What did the ladies do with the dead body afterwards?

"... They were sisters Freddie and Truus Oversteegen and Hannie Schaft, who, in  1940 were 14, 16 and 20, respectively. While they, along with other resistance fighters, used dynamite to destroy bridges and railroads, and helped hide Jewish children and smuggled Jews out of the country, the very young women also would go to bars and pick up Nazi soldiers. They would ask the men to go for a walk in the forest under the pretense of romance or sex — and then shoot and kill them. Their story was told in a 2019 book, “Seducing and Killing Nazis,” by the Dutch author and activist Sophie Poldermans. ...
In addition to doing all of this active resistance work by actually murdering Nazis, one of them was hiding Jews in her home. ..."

Flirting with danger: A play based on the true story of 3 Dutch women who lured Nazis to their deaths premieres in NYC - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Friday, September 20, 2013

In The Race Of Antibiotics Resistance Humans Will Win

Multidrug Resistance Scare

For some time, the media have reported about all kinds of bacterial drug resistance and its dangers. If we would only prescribe less antibiotics. If we would use less of it in daily cleaners or in livestock treatment and so on. Here is a link to an article (German language) I read today about this subject.

It’s A Race Of Evolution Against Human Intelligence

We have already discovered that cocktails of drugs can be a lot more effective than individual drugs, see e.g. AIDS treatment. It appears that pathogens are much less capable of adopting to cocktails than to individual drugs.

Not long ago I read an article which described that there is a race between certain snakes and their specific predators. The snake’s venom is constantly evolving, because the predator is constantly evolving its resistance. It’s a race like an arms race.


Since the exponential revolution of technology humans are going to win the race against pathogens. There is no doubt!