Last week when I was leaving work, the light was just perfect to take this snapshot at the EPFL Campus.

I have been reading the news for the last few days as the northwestern United States has experienced a strong heat wave that has broken all records in its major cities including Seattle and Portland.

There are even reports that part of the infrastructure of those cities is literally melting due to that heat wave. The PDX airport maintains records of the highest and lowest temperatures every day since 1938 (see charts above) and when observing a graph of these data it is clear that the temperatures of the last days are surprising for that region of the country.

I have been saying it for a while in this blog: Global warming is not a joke!

Lausanne is a city that can be quite photogenic, and one of my favorite areas for taking photos is the Ouchy area. This area has stunning views of the lake with the Alps in the background. A couple of weeks ago I took this photo of the Éole sculpture created by Clelia Bettua in 1995.

After a long wait, I was finally able to get an appointment today for the first dose of the covid-19 vaccine. I still need to wait another month, but having a spot in the queue is such a relief! I was curious about which countries have the highest vaccination rate (using data from Our World in Data) and I realized that Gibraltar has almost all the adult population inoculated.

I know the situation is bad in India nowadays, so I really hope that at some point most of the countries will be able to have the same numbers as Gibraltar, or the USA for that matter. The new administration definitely did wonders there!

I wish you all a very happy year 2021. I hope that this year comes with good health, vaccinations that will end the pandemic, and a return to that normality where it is possible to travel again.

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