‹Who am I?› – That is the big question – perhaps the biggest. It stood above Delphi’s temple as ‹Gnothi...
Two years ago, at the beginning of December, there was a spectacular solar eclipse at Tierra del Fuego in Southern...
«Dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gae» – Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. In his mathematical treatises, the Greek mathematician Pappus quotes Archimedes here. This is how the latter illustrates the law of the lever. With a fixed point and a long...
Ibrahim Abouleish stood under the expansive sun awning, and a thousand Egyptians sat with their forearms propped up on the...
Recently, Christoph Sailer, who runs resource management for water and soil in Aachen, told me that when he was a...
According to Herbert Salzmann, the oldest form of cooperation brings the pyramid into view: someone says where to go. The clown Nögge caricatured this authoritarian principle of leadership with a choleric expression: «I’ll tell you what to do – and if you won’t, I’ll tell you what you’ll do instead»...
In 1961, the astrophysicist Francis Drake came up with the equation later named after him, with which one should be...
Sonja Zausch, Bart Vanmechelen, and Jan Göschel, the three leaders of the Council for Inclusive Social Development, have put these...
There are 10,000 things in every household – that’s how it is often said. No one has counted them, and it is unclear whether a mineral cabinet accounts one or a hundred times, a library one or a thousand times. Nevertheless, many things surround a personality, like second clothing or...
Recently a friend sent me a poem, the religious hymn ‹Lord of the Dance› by Sydney Carter (The United Methodist...
Peace is when I can let go of this: the craving for ego, the longing for the mother’s breast. Peace...
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