Roughly a month ago had some areas in Spain suffered big floods. These were so horrendous that several persons drowned. Ideologists were quick with accusing climate change. But people, who know the areas, had as quickly identified other causes. Rivers burst their banks due to the removal of some dams in an attempt to “re-nature” […]

On November, 30th in each year since already 1988 is Computer Security Day. I did read several suggestions for what to do on this day, but most of them had nothing to do with computer security. For example to clean monitor and keyboard. This has something to do with computers and should be done from […]

The shihō-nage (四方投げ) is an example in another of my articles. I to this purpose searched some kanji and copied them into my article. You can’t simply type kanji. Even from an editor with different input methods you finally have to copy the kanji. While I looked for the kanji, I had to read that […]

As I already mentioned, I tried to assure success in graduating from university by electing astrological charts for my oral exams. Veteran readers of this blog could know that I graduated from university twice. I studied biology first and sinology after that. I naturally recall the latter better. There I had two weeks after writing […]

The ohsoto-gari (大外刈) stems neither from aikidō nor from karatedō nor from sumō, so it’s an original jūdō (柔道) and jūjutsu (柔術) technique. There’s a dispute between jūdōka (柔道家) regarding this technique. An article by Ben Holmes explains why the ohsoto-gari (大外刈) fails if the jūdōka (柔道家) tries to execute it in the classically taught […]

Topocentric Houses means the astrological house system invented in Argentina by the Hungarian-German astrologer Wendel Polich and the British Anthony Nelson Page. It was published in 1964 in a journal named Spica. The Topocentric House System would better be called the Polich/ Page House System because the name Topocentric is misleading. The English word topocentric […]

Diane Skoss is a renowned and experienced martial artist. She already had been this, when she wrote an article on why women should wield weapons. Due to my experiences in aikidō (合気道), where yōshinkan (養神館) includes training with weapons while aikikai (合気会) doesn’t, I agree with her that wielding weapons in training results in better […]

When I wrote a correction to my article ‘On Astrological House Systems’, I for the very first time noticed that a Krusiński House System exists. After a search engine “artificial intelligence” tried to transfer this house system from 1995 (or from 1993 under the name Goelzer House System) to around 1600, I found a website […]

The Olympic Games of 2020 in 2021 were interesting because of their many scandals. They were unprecedented and sportsmen also aren’t too fond of scandals. So the Olympic Games of 2020 in 2021 couldn’t be expected to set a new standard. At least not for Olympic Games, which take place in their announced years. So […]

I recently had to find that my article ‘On Astrological House Systems’ contains some errors. I can’t recall from where I got the pieces of information on Alcabitius Houses and Koch Houses. I probably had just asked a search engine because Howard Sasportas’ book (which I, after checking my bookshelf, seemingly confounded with Ralph Holden’s […]