Just after the sun sets, the two brightest planets, Jupiter and Venus, can be seen shining in the western sky...
Agricultural Conference at the Goetheanum: Earlier this month, author, and environmental activist Vandana Shiva spoke about ‹Rediscovering the Sacred in...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983, an art dealer offered a Greek Kouros to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, which he dated to the sixth century BC. The museum had art historians and archaeologists examine...
‹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...
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