The fourth part of this article series treated the legend of Zhì Shàn (至 善)/ Chi Sin/ Gee Sin. Yet several survivors of the destruction of the Shàolín (少林) Monastery appear in legends. Several legends tell about the whereabouts of Wǔ Méi (伍 枚)/ Ng Mui. She shall have fled to a White Crane Temple. […]

Yashin is asteroid #3442 and also known as 1978 TO7. Yashin’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.15 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.14, a period of revolution of 2 038 days, and an inclination of 12.2 degrees. Yashin is of the type C and measures twenty-six kilometers in diameter. Yashin was discovered […]

Siddhī are superpowers attained by Hindu or Buddhist spiritual training. Examples for siddhī are tum-mo and lung-gom. I find astounding how differently they are treated in the West. Alexandra David-Neel seemingly is the only Westerner, who ever saw a lung-gom-pa. Hence lung-gom is believed to be something mythological. Tum-Mo on the other hand is an […]

All bullies think that they would be superior to their victims. This is wrong in most cases, but not in all. Bullies can be found in all positions, for example in the position of moderators of online forums or social media. Then they are likely to abuse their power for cyber-bullying. This happened often on […]

A lung-gom-pa is somebody, who is trained in lung-gom. This is an old Tibetan practice, which enables to run for forty-eight hours without rest and to cover two-hundred miles in a single day. Lung-gom has never been known well to Westerners and perhaps already doesn’t exist anymore. Also could be that lung-gom is practiced in […]

Meanwhile seems to be well-known that karate is better made a secret. Also Martial Development has a blog post about this topic. There’s a problem mentioned, which I somehow had overlooked. While boasting attracts more bullies, simply talking about karate already makes other people perceive you differently. They quite commonly presume that karateka have violent […]

Genes are codes for proteins. And proteins are polypeptides. So much is known since decades. Shorter sequences of chemically bound amino-acids are also since decades called oligopeptides. The entirety of the genes of an individual is called genome. So the entirety of the proteins of an individual is called proteome. A part of this proteome […]

At a wall of my grandpa’s kitchen hung a photo. It did show some people at a joyous occasion. These people were supposed to be members of my family, but when I visited my grandpa and had a look at this photo, then I often wondered who was the boy in the foreground. This boy […]

Another episode of the same documentary series got broadcasted. I this time but the last minute didn’t watch it. This episode was about man-made climate change, which the Creationists somehow bought. Even in the oversimplified version of global warming. Climate change or global warming means that environments get altered and extant species become extinct species. […]

The USA is in a kind of war against Iran and prepares for war against the People’s Republic of China. Neither Iran nor the People’s Republic of China are able to pose a threat to the USA’s armed forces. Even Russia isn’t able to do so. Yet the USA aren’t likely to be victorious in […]