Scientists from City of Hope (a hospital specialized in cancer treatment and headquartered in Duarte, California) and from the University of California in Los Angeles experimented with mice and thus found a new cell type. The team transplanted adipocyte progenitor cells (APC, the stem cells of the fatty tissue) from old mice into young mice […]

The musician Bad Bunny is known to me because of his short WWE career. But he also did take part in a scientific experiment. When he together with the musician Residente, who I never heard of, in 2019 worked at their song Bellacoso, the neuroscientist Suzanne Dikker measured their brainwaves. Bad Bunny and Residente drank […]

In Zurich’s Rennweg Ward in 1392 was found a dead baby. So officials interrogated several inhabitants. One of them was Repplin. She was an unmarried woman, who lived in a house together with several other unmarried women. She had told some neighbors that she was pregnant. A man with name Süss testified that he was […]

Roe is asteroid #28803 and also known as 2000 HR79. Roe measures 2.8 km in diameter and is a member of the Hirayama-family Maria. Roe’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.56 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.09, a period of revolution of 1’501 days, and an inclination of 15.8 degrees. Roe was […]

An indologist gave me introductions into Wǔdāng-quán (武當拳) and southern style kalaripayat. I already mentioned this the one or other time. But I don’t recall that I would have mentioned the place, where he taught me and some more of his friends. He had a friend, who ran a martial art school. It was located […]

Rou is asteroid #5412 and also known as 1973 SR3. Rou was already in 1931 precovered at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory as 1931 TK, measures 4.9 km in diameter, and belongs to the Nysa-Polana asteroid-complex. Rou’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.44 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.19, a period of revolution of […]

The topic of another episode of the same documentary series was the sociology of science. This means the way, in which scientific beliefs change according to the description and explanation by Thomas Kuhn. He defined the beliefs of scientists in a certain generation as a paradigm and explained that each generation of scientists has its […]

Salsa is asteroid #15150 and also known as 2000 EO148. Salsa measures 3.0 km in diameter. Salsa’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.26 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.16, a period of revolution of 1’238 days, and an inclination of 3.9 degrees. Salsa was discovered during the course of the Catalina Sky […]

Historians in 1995 obtained a legal process document, seemingly the only still existing one, from late medieval England on same-sex intercourse. On December, 11th, in 1395 got two persons arrested. One of them was the obviously male John Britby. The other person wore women’s clothing and used the name Eleanor Rykener. During the interrogation came […]

Albeit it is an old discussion, which resurfaced, from 2015, I only recently did read about the idea that the lord of the eighth astrological house located in the twelfth astrological house indicates a short life. Yet the idea was already in 2015 disputed. Additionally to too many people only trying to disturb the discussion. […]