Ethical AI? “[T]o understand something or someone so completely that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend,...
Kindness, love, and strength—the three pillars of parenting and the conference theme. Two children are sitting on the floor; one...
We all know it, mostly from our social relationships: the deep ache of not being able to make ourselves understood. It feels powerless to have become speechless, at a loss for words, inaudible, having not yet found the sheltering blackness of the blackbird’s feathers in the twilight of a winter’s...
I tap, tap, tap an egg with the tip of a pin, slowly, breaking through the hardened shell, creating a...
Michael is on his way. He now understands that drug counseling doesn’t mean that, instead of the drugs, now I...
According to recently deceased Egyptologist Jan Assmann, bringing the image of the eternal into the world of change was the motif of the most powerful building impulse in human history. Out of the original 800 pyramids, 120 are still standing in the Egypt of today—a testimony to the timelessness of...
I am experiencing consternation and solidarity everywhere these days. People with connections to Ukraine mobilize other people who had no...
Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983,...
If we are all islands, it is the water that connects us. To get to you, I have to move, in the water. I swim or go by boat. I can paddle or let myself drift. Either way, the water carries me to you and to us. I go out...
What dying tells us about life: The last leaves, already pale on the graphic undergrowth, and the moment of finding...
The Bavarian singer-songwriter Werner Schmidbauer calls himself a “collector of moments” [Momentensammler] in his song of the same name. This...
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