Diǎnmài (traditional: 點脈 / simplified: 点脉) / diǎnxué (traditional: 點穴 / simplified: 点穴) shall have been invented, like beseeming, by nobody else than Zhāng Sānfēng (traditional: 張三豐 / simplified: 张三丰). Several centuries later, Huáng Zōngxī (黄 宗羲) and his son Huáng Bǎijiā (黃 百家) learnt the passed on art from Wáng Zhēngnán (王 征南). Huáng […]

The gospels contain a parable, which I find really difficult to understand. It’s known as the parable of the talents. Matthew and Luke tell about it. Now as they heard these things, He spoke another parable, because He was near Jerusalem and because they thought the kingdom of God would appear immediately. Therefore He said: […]

After Charlie Kirk was murdered, the suspect Tyler James Robinson got arrested and confessed to have committed the murder. Charlie Kirk was from 200 m distance shot in the throat. (The bullet cut through the carotid artery.) Not everybody is able to do that. Tyler Robinson already when he was a child learnt handling different […]

Charlie Kirk was a religious and political activist. The common descriptions of what he was doing are quite confuse, but I understand what he was doing because each German political party has an associated youth organization, whose members do internships and help in campaigning. Political groups in German universities, too, are associated with the political […]

Eight pieces of the French crown jewels got stolen on October, 19th in this year. You probably heard of this case. The material value of the stolen pieces is eighty-eight-million euros, the historic value probably is lost because robbers use to destroy such objects, which are too easy to identify. When somebody is able to […]

While the Japanese know ninety words for “I”, the Guaraní, an indigenous tribe in Paraguay, know neither a word for “I” nor a word for “you”. (I learnt this from a German emigrant.) They’re currently learning such concepts by adopting more and more words and their meanings from the Spanish language, which is the official […]

Techniques derived from Chinese medicine naturally can not only damage, but also heal or at least mitigate pain. Manipulating the body manually without any tools is a part of Chinese medicine and called tuīná (traditional: 推拏 / simplified: 推拿). This literally means “push and grasp”, but a good translation would be chiropractic because it comprises […]

The USA have the President of the United States. France has the Président de la République. So how is it a peculiarity that also Germany has its Bundespräsident (President of the Federation)? The peculiarity isn’t that Germany, too, has a president, but that I, too, although I’m German have to look up who is Germany’s […]

Masters of Business Administration are the least learned of all academics. They only think that they knew everything better. The following example is quite unrelated to the topic of saturated fats, but I return to it right after this example. Once some Masters of Business Administration heard that spider silk would be the next big […]

The strange karate instructor, who came to my village, began to teach, but then bullied me, translated the word sensei (先生) as “fatherly friend”. This “translation” is as wrong as it could be. None of the components of the compound word has any meaning near to “father” or to “friend”. Maybe that karate instructor had […]