Malcolm Gladwell puts the story at the beginning of his book ‹Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking›: In 1983,...
‹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 Argentina. A study trip to the Black Sun, as well as the penguins and the largest glaciers on earth, was planned and booked by enough fellow travellers. The Covid pandemic...
«Dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gae» – Give me a place to stand and I shall move the...
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 child, he was allowed to bring friends home anytime. The extended family was used to providing for many, and having two or three more mouths at the lunch table did...
According to Herbert Salzmann, the oldest form of cooperation brings the pyramid into view: someone says where to go. The...
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 two words in the subtitle of their autumn meeting. The Irish writer C.S. Lewis showed how closely the two virtues are connected in his book ‹The Four Loves›. In it,...
There are 10,000 things in every household – that’s how it is often said. No one has counted them, and...
Recently a friend sent me a poem, the religious hymn ‹Lord of the Dance› by Sydney Carter (The United Methodist...
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