On Leonardo Day, held on Sunday 11th Nov, some of burning issues for the future have been pointed out.

I have chosen to refer to a lecture by Herbert Franke, one of the first experimenters in arts and science (photo from the projection screen) also presenting at the conference.

It is quite interesting why the art and science has appeared in the neutral or non-allied country. Namely, the cold war, quite visible in art from today's historical perspective in a split between obvious propaganda of the Socialist realism and hidden agenda of the marketing of American abstraction movement was giving a certain "way out" with this particular (art, science and technology) experiments, but for still obvious political reason: blocking two mass society's definitions of art as propaganda and science as a vehicle of war.

That historical position should not be forgotten. The neutralness and non-alliance were actually bridging artists and scientists from two completely different political organizations.

There were also notes there should be more of participants from non-Western countries (which of course was not the topic of the Yasmin list, bridging around Mediterranean very different societies and cultures).

Concerning in depth topics, Martha Blassing pointed one of burning issues the question if it is possible to learn from refugees to understand how to deal with extreme environments and stress.

This issue actually has pointed out something from the Darwinian perspective - where some part of the population can be disadvantaged in society, in other circumstances they can actually be the only one to survive.