Kirk Hartley (LexBlog Switzerland)

Swiss Create New Fund to Pay Compensation to Persons with Asbestos Related Diseases
As reported by Laurie Kazan Allen at the IBAS web site and in other places, a new fund has been created in Switzerland to pay compensation to persons suffering from asbestos-related diseases. The Swiss Info channel reported the news in a December 19, 2016 online article. The following are excerpts from the article: “A CHF100...
Dance Your PhD!
From Science this week, here’s the lead in to the story: “When Florence Metz turned in her Ph.D. thesis on water protection policy this year at the University of Bern in Switzerland, she thought her work was done. But then a friend sent her an email with congratulations and an order: “Dance your Ph.D.!” The...
Will Switzerland Create a 20 or 30 Year Statute of Limitations for Asbestos Disease?
If one can believe the Google translate version of this web page from Swiss media, senior Swiss officials are thinking about creating an extended statute of limitations for asbestos diseases – perhaps 20-30 years. The extended statute option apparently is being explored now that the Swiss government has declined union requests to create an asbestos...
Robots Learning Altruism and Cooperation – Interesting by Itself and Seems to Echo a Human Model
It feels like science fiction. But, here is the ScienceDaily summary of an experiment – and success – in robots learning altruism and cooperation. The experiment was undertaken to test “Hamilton’s Rule” on why humans act altruistically. The full paper is here in PLoS. The experiment involved researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne,...

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