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 […]

Tacitus reported that the Germanic people used to wash themselves in a cold river each morning. Men used one riverbank and women used the opposite riverbank. Tacitus stressed that nobody risked a look at the opposite riverbank. He had to stress this because he didn’t report about hygiene. Tacitus wrote propaganda and wanted to say […]

Chalonge is asteroid #2040 and also known as 1974 HA. Chalonge measures approximately thirty-four kilometers in diameter and is of the type Ch and a member of the Hirayama-family Meliboea. Chalonge’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.12 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.18, a period of revolution of 2 013 days, and […]