The poem “The Chaos” provides many examples for what I call the Anglo-Saxon twist, which makes communication between native speakers of English and native speakers of other languages really difficult. I have doubts about English native speakers really finding this way of speaking easier. A tweet, which wants to be a meme, however comprises another […]

This Curiosity Rover, which explores Mars since already 2012, recently (published in last February) made a new discovery. Curiosity had already in 2024 discovered an unexpected high content of manganese dioxide in rock samples from the Gale Crater. This already was a hint that microbes could have existed there. Curiosity recently discovered organic molecules in […]

Because getting the one-million dollars from the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) challenge is impossible without the applicant previously financing it with several million dollars, so serious psi-researchers countered the JREF challenge with an own challenge. Skeptics can apply to get one-million dollars from the Zammit challenge, initiated by the lawyer Victor Zammit and funded […]

Today and on March, 15th in each year is Everything You Think Is Wrong Day! Why this day was chosen and since when this fancy holiday exists is forgotten. Why it exists also is unknown. Known is only that it isn’t about not knowing. It’s about wrong mindsets causing trouble for yourself or to clash […]

Researchers from the Chinese Agricultural University did in last January examine the influence of baculoviruses on cotton bollworms (Helicoverpa armigera). When a caterpillar contracted a baculovirus, then the baculovirus enters cells in the intestine, where it not only replicates, but also makes the intestine cells produce the neuropeptide tachykinin. Thus the baculoviruses count into the […]

The interview with the researcher on the Shroud of Turin had two parts. I wrote my article on this interview already after I had watched only the first part. After I had the opportunity to watch also the second part, I understood that I should have written more already on the first part. There would […]

Seemingly, I didn’t write about this topic yet, though I could have sworn that I did. I once had planned to enter the business of lab-grown meat. I’d prefer if people became vegetarians and at least vegetarian menu items should be normalized. But while this still is unrealistic, at least substitutes for slaughtered animals should […]

Kythera is asteroid #570 and also known as A905 OF. Kythera’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.42 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.12, a period of revolution of 2 309 days, and an inclination of 1.8 degrees. Kythera belongs to the Cybele group. Kythera was discovered by the German (from Baden, a […]

I wonder whether instructors, who taught me in seminars and by writing books, count to my lineages. Then Julian Pursen Chees would be the most important instructor for seminars, while Nakayama Masatoshi (中山 正敏) and Albrecht Pflüger would be the most influential authors of karate books. Albrecht Pflüger was born in 1941 and has been […]

Silver is asteroid #5325 and also known as 1988 JQ. Silver measures approximately 9.4 km in diameter and belongs to the Phocea asteroid-cluster. Silver’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.36 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.22, a period of revolution of 1’326 days, and an inclination of 23.5 degrees, reminding very much […]