The United Nations had already in 1967 decided that the Palestinians have the right to have their own state and East Jerusalem would be its capital. The state would include own armed forces and sovereignty over the own territory. The Palestinians instead have only some paramilitary groups like the Zionists in British-Palestine had before the […]

There are some issues with that ancient stele. While thankfulness to Æsculapius really had often been expressed by similar items, which are known to historians and archeologists, the inscription of the mentioned one is quite strange. I especially wonder how that L. Clodius Hermippus was able to write on it how long he did live. […]

Hardened fat sometimes is referred to as hydrogenated fat. This is the same thing, but I’m afraid that I didn’t explain it well. To hydrogenate means to add hydrogen. This would in theory and if everything in chemistry would be easy only result in unsaturated fatty-acids becoming saturated fatty-acids. It’s the reverse chemical reaction of […]

Once karate was only karate and nowadays seem several karateka to miss this time, which they however never experienced. But at some point in rather the already late 20th century had some karateka decided that karate isn’t Okinawan enough anymore, distinguished “Okinawan karate” from “Japanese karate” and, rather not before the 21st century, began to […]

Already in daily life exist ways to put more strain on your ankles and knees, but also ways to spare them. When I nursed my father, I got only three hours of sleep per day, sometimes even less. So I often feared that I could simply fall down and asleep. But I also had to […]

Mark Dyble from the University of Cambridge made a monogamy ranking of thirty-five mammal species. He to this purpose collected DNA, including from humans from different cultures and also different historical epochs, and used it for analyzing how many siblings were full siblings. The study was published in last month. Humans made the seventh rank […]

The South-African government did accuse Benjamin Netanyahu of attempting a genocide. The South-African government even stated that Apartheid isn’t over before an end is put to the discrimination of Palestinians. Too many things get skipped in history classes, so I wondered about this statement. South Africans still in the 1970s suffered from Apartheid politics, so […]

From an allegedly ancient stele: “To Æsculapius and to Sanitas, L. Clodius Hermippus dedicates this, who lived 115 years, 5 days, on the breath of little girls, which, even after his death, not a little astonishes physicians. Ye who follow, protract your life in like manner.” When a stele is dedicated to Æsculapius and to […]

I watched another episode of the same documentary series. The topic this time was what caused the mass extinction at the end of the Geological Age of the Dinosaurs. The main theories were introduced. These are volcanic activity of the Deccan Traps in India, extraordinary activity of volcanoes worldwide, an impact of an at least […]

A study from the University of Mannheim in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany in last month came to the conclusion that people, who show compassion for other people, are happier and feel that their own lives have purpose. Compassion also reduces own distress. The effect is independent from factors like age, gender, or place of residence. The […]