People of the 20th and 21st centuries in the vast majority have the impression that things in our time change quite fast, while the life in previous centuries would always have been the same boring routine. Things seemingly didn’t change at all before science and technology made in the 20th century everything speed up. But […]

In the tv series ‘Supergirl’ appear some members of the legion of superheroes, namely Saturn-Girl and Brainiac 5. A good beginning, but a tv series set in the 30th century would be much better than taking the superheroes of the 1930s and of the 1950s out of their time. In particular when crews and casts […]

Some weeks ago was an earthquake in Afghanistan. A German newspaper report told about the fate of several women there. These found themselves under the detritus of collapsed houses. The women groaned with pain and screamed for help. Yet even with help already in sight, they didn’t get rescued, but had to suffer and to […]

If you know older articles from this blog, then you know that I had been to Ukraine and that I took pictures there. The country seemed to be modern and progressive. I found especially this picture would tell something about how advanced the Ukrainians are: Ukraine now gives a completely different impression. But there still […]

An analysis by Bloomberg predicts that two-hundred-thousand employees in the financial sector could lose their jobs due to getting replaced by Artificial Intelligence. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia had already begun with replacing employees by Artificial Intelligence. ChatGPT should answer phone calls. Contrary to the management’s expectation, more phone calls than ever before had to […]

I’m sorry for publishing so many articles about martial arts, in particular for recently finding less time for other topics. I’d like to write as many articles about solar arts, lunar arts, jovial arts, venereal arts and so on. But I don’t even know a place, where training in such arts would be offered. Some […]

The concept of tiānmìng (天命) is a very much overrated concept, which is included in really every explanation on Chinese culture or Chinese politics. The concept is ancient, yet it shall be useful for understanding modern politics. Because tiānmìng (天命) is a genuine Chinese concept, so there are several translations possible and dependent on the […]

Though the economy of ancient Rome somehow depended on spoils of war and so perished as soon as it could no longer expand, ancient Romans did not easily get persuaded to go at war. A war hence could not simply be decided, but had to be justified. So war propaganda, which explained to the Romans […]

Most of the governments of member countries of the European Union already surrendered their financial authority to the European Union. Despite knowing that it never has been a great idea! Especially for Germany had it been a very bad idea because the German economy is underrepresented in the distribution of the European currency, while France […]

I know this only for Germany and not how it is in other countries, but schoolbooks in Germany are not only expensive. Pupils year by year invest time, work, and additional money for wrapping their schoolbooks in plastic film. This is necessary for making the schoolbooks last a whole year. Schoolbooks nowadays cost already between […]