A rather superfluous study from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in last year was conducted with only eighteen test persons. The brain activity of the test persons was measured while the test persons did learn something and then again when they recalled what they had learnt. The researchers thus learnt that learning is more […]

Some sextiles by Uranus and several retrogracies were the dominant astrological factors in the year 2025 A.D. Sextiles hint only to opportunities, not to something, which must happen. Uranus also didn’t finish its series of sextiles in last year. The 47th POTUS “ended” some wars and in each case needed only few days for doing […]

During my time as a conscript, I served in a military truck driving school. This had disadvantages because I was the only trooper amidst many sergeants, but I also had a few privileges. I would not have to stand sentry and I after basic training would have to attend no more military exercises. I nevertheless […]

The Earth obviously must be older than the layers of ice found on it. Some of these are several million years old, especially Himalayan and Antarctic ice layers. Scientists in 2017 found 2.7 million years old ice in the East Antarctic Alan Hills and in 2025 won an ice core reaching 1.2 million years back […]

I wrote that “the People’s Republic of China meanwhile banned things from Japan like anime”. But I didn’t give examples. So I do this now. Chinese censors revoked their already existing clearances for the anime movies »Detective Conan: The Time Bombed Skyscraper« from 1997, »Crayon Shin-Chan the Movie: Super Hot! the Spicy Kasukabe Dancers« (I […]

If you have to defend yourself against a knife attack, then you will get cut. Many websites teach this and I, too, am doing so. I once did read on a random website a complaint about every martial artist teaching that you’ll get cut if defending against a knife attack. But should these martial artists […]

Some European noblemen of the Early Middle Age prescribed the equipment of their knights by law. The knights had to bring to battlefields armor, which is listed as the many parts, of which a full armor could consist, from the helmet to the boots, a horse, a sword, a lance, a battle-axe, a bow and […]

Shaiva or Shivaism comes too short on this blog, despite me often writing about religious topics. So the Śivaliṅga (शिवलिङ्ग) shall be the topic here. {The nominative śivaliṅgam (शिवलिङ्गम्) counts only as a derived form.} I begin with a tale. The gods Brahmā (ब्रह्मा) and Viṣṇu (विष्णु) once traveled through space. They found a column, […]

Nike, Inc. knew sulfur-hexa-fluoride already since decades and used this gas, which I so far mentioned only briefly, in its shoes of the Air series. By its own account, Nike, Inc. learnt only in 1992 from a German magazine about the greenhouse effect of sulfur-hexa-fluoride, so in 2006 stopped using it. The greenhouse effect is, […]

The food industry knows to use some plant protein and some plant fat for substituting cheese. The food industry does so for example to reduce the production costs of ready-made pizzas. The substitute has been known as cheese analogue. Few years ago, when the general public learnt about this, it was a big scandal. Ready-made […]