When visiting another country, I show my appreciation for ‹foreign› people and their culture by trying to thank, greet, and...
Our tour group had booked an auditorium in the hotel in Luxor, Egypt. We were there on time, but an...
Do you know Beethoven’s ‹Immortal Beloved›? Beethoven dedicated all his music from a certain point in time to an ‹immortal lover›. To this day people are divided as to who she may have been, and the way in which people are pondering about it says everything about this power of...
Who still owns the truth today? The world has become incredibly complex in the last 100 years. The longing for...
Blackbirds, tits, and finches do not argue about the way they sing. They simply sing and chirp the beauty’s tones....
During my Easter visit to Potsdam, I met I., a young mother and sales manager from Odesa in Ukraine. Her husband is a sailor who was in Turkey when the war broke out. He was able to fly from there to Germany. I. and her young daughter had to flee...
What can philosophy do about uncertainty? This is what two journalists of the ‹NZZ› asked Peter Sloterdijk a few years...
Fear is a fact of life, but our relationship to it is something different. Life brings defeats – we have...
500,000 people have looked at Caroline Kube’s fingers showing how to crochet a potholder with a waffle pattern. These half-million people have followed and learned how the yarn runs between the thumb and index finger – simultaneously from afar and up close. Nearly 50 million people listened to Tim Urban,...
The Protestant aid organization Bread for the World published the Atlas of Civil Society last week. The book documents in...
The concepts of delay and retardation (in human beings) are quite justified and characteristic compared to the ontogenesis of mammals....
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