When I read news in English, then there exist different degrees of murder according to the US Criminal Code. I don’t have a clue how murder can differ in degree. Murder is murder, so the German Criminal Code knows only murder and all other crimes with deadly consequences are other crimes with deadly consequences. From […]

The first stem cell movement in karate according to the concept by Dejan Djurdjevic is a gedan-barai (下段払い), the second stem cell movement then is an oi-tsuki (追い突き). The latter is in English also known as a lunge punch, step-in punch, front punch, forward punch, stepping punch, etc. Wikipedia tries to tell you that the […]

An important motive for me to try to raise my readers’ computer literacy is to fight cyber-bullying and to enable readers to care for their cybersecurity. I also appreciate input, for example from Steven Franz, on how to deal with cyber-bullying. So Steven Franz makes me very much wonder about him defining trolls as people, […]

When there are seven concepts of love, then these of course can be assigned to the seven planets of classic astrology. The topic entirely belongs to the realm of Venus, but this isn’t an obstacle for distributing the seven concepts among the seven planets. Mythology tells more about some concepts, so the task should be […]

While you really didn’t miss much if you don’t know the anime series Dr. Stone, trying to spark more interest in science still is an interesting idea. Perhaps some people could at least get motivated to learn what science is and that it is different from religion. Already because the People’s Republic of China banned […]

Dejan Djurdjevic in his discussion with David touches the topic why most kata begin to the left. This is a great question. Dejan Djurdjevic’s answer to it is that kata thus teach correct koshi-kaiten (腰回転). Not wrong, but the topic, even in line with Dejan Djurdjevic’s stem cell movements theory, is bigger. Teaching correct hip […]

Martin Armstrong had reported that Russia’s president would ignore Venezuela’s requests for help. Allegedly because Russia doesn’t have the capacity for another war. Albeit this could be true because Russia spends much less on its military than the big NATO countries do, Russia in truth “ignored” already Iranian, Armenian, and whatever requests. Russia even “ignored” […]

Dejan Djurdjevic coined the expression stem cell movements for what the kata in karate really are teaching. I like this expression. Probably because it sounds so biological. And what he elaborates is correct too. In the comment section below an article on his blog, he discusses with somebody named David how to move the hips […]

I had planned to write an article about arrests as reactions to social media posts in the United Kingdom because I did read on some blogs about ten-thousand arrests annually and the case of somebody, who practiced some marksmanship during a stay in the USA. By the way, the most important reason for visiting the […]

It’s widely known that the ancient Greeks distinguished four kinds of love, which are agápē (ἀγάπη), érōs (ἔρως), philía (φιλία), and storgē (στοργή). Wikipedia despite also containing an article on these “four loves” additionally knows philautía (φιλαυτία) and xenía (ξενία) and categorizes these, too, as ancient Greek concepts of love. Érōs (Ἔρως) as isn’t difficult to guess […]