Egor Gorshkov — Thoughts

Cold kills more

2026-06-28T00:00:00Z

Every summer there are stories about Europeans dying in the heat, often followed by the usual point about air conditioning.

Heat does kill people. But if you look at temperature-related mortality overall, cold is the much bigger problem.

Across Europe, cold-related deaths outnumber heat-related deaths by roughly eight to one. Most of them happen quietly in winter and get much less attention.

The US comparison is also interesting. Despite much wider use of air conditioning, cold-related mortality per capita is not obviously lower than in Europe.

I got curious about this and put some numbers and sources here:

Climate Poor

Moved in

2026-09-24T00:00:00Z

This site used to be a single card with three links. It now has an about page, a work page, a log of night projects and this archive.

The arrangement is simple: X and LinkedIn are for shorter observations and conversation. This is the permanent home for ideas worth keeping.

A drug deal at the pharma fair

2026-09-29T00:00:00Z

A few years back, after Germany began legalizing the use of medical cannabis, pharmaceutical trade fairs in Germany began saturating with exhibitors selling cannabinoid therapies for epileptic children and cancer patients, with THC and CBD products.

Fast forward to today and some of those fairs have basically turned into what feels like a full-scale drug and party operation in the middle of what is otherwise an event mostly for pharmacists looking to get discounted rates from manufacturers. You've got dozens of booths, some with DJs, cocktails, the newest hybrid skunk strains on prominent display, baggies with samples, rolling papers, you name it...

Fig. 2 Double Baked Cake, under a magnifier.

Fig. 3 Runtz (LA Runtz).

And look, I'm totally fine with people selling drugs if they're legal.

But can we at least acknowledge how absurdly hypocritical the setting is?

It's a bit like Johnnie Walker turning up as the face of curing depression. Or the Heineken family leading Alzheimer's research.

Maybe we need to finally separate a few things properly. If weed has finally arrived on the market, going from illegal to medicinal and now to legally recreational, it no longer belongs in the health and pharma category.