Did you coincidentally watch the August 26th edition of the WWE show NXT? In particular the blindfold match between Lexis King and Myles Osborne? It was the first blindfold match, which I ever watched. I must say that I, when blindfolded or also at night despite exercising for this, move with much less certainty! I […]

When I recently bought groceries, I wanted to have a distance of at least two meters to the cashier. Albeit she looked better than most cashiers and spread the scent of perfume. Or more precisely, she spread a horrible smell of perfume overdose. I felt reminded at the sixth part of this article series, which […]

. [←this point repairs the layout of this article and I have no clue how this works] Jesse Enkamp in an article on his blog explained that ki (気) simply is energy. His explanation is less deep than my explanation of qì (氣), yet we both basically say the same. While my explanation considers the […]

Biting is definitely not advisable! Yet a “self defence” system teaching the opposite also exists. This “self defence” system is WenDo. The idea of it is to teach women how to defend themselves. But the founders of WenDo had absolutely no background in and not even any clue about traditional ways of defending oneself or […]

Attending school is compulsory in many countries, yet most of them charge money for attending school. Isn’t this strange? I at least think so! The German computer scientist, whose blog I sometimes take as a source for my own blog, rather frequently rants about what is wrong with the educational system. I often think these […]

Today is the USA’s Talk like a Pirate Day. A fancy holiday dedicated to making strange noises. A too stupid fancy holiday for examining its background. As if strange noises would make a pirate! In reality, pirates are robbers at sea. They usually are former fishermen, whose livelihood got sacrificed for the luxuries of the […]

Dejan Djurdjevic writes many insightful essays on martial arts topics and publishes them on his blog. Most of what he has to say is substantial and he’s very right in debunking martial arts myths. But he counts fājìn (發勁) to them and thus proves that he doesn’t understand the concept of fājìn (發勁). He speculates […]

While I wondered and looked up whether I remembered correctly (I didn’t) how Kandor came into the bottle and how this Kryptonian city arrived on Earth, I learnt that in 2011 not only the Arrowverse adaption of the DC mythology began with some tv series, but also the graphic novels had a relaunch and all […]

The Bible ‘translators’ of the New International Version rewrote the Bible instead of translating it. The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) is preferred by those, who figured this out. So I wanted to have a look, but this version is quite difficult to find, especially if trying to look up concrete verses. Furthermore, I somehow […]

On September, 15th in this year is Keirō-no-Hi (敬老の日) or the Respect for the Aged Day in Japan. A similar day was in 1947 introduced in Taka-chō (多可町), an astoundingly small town in the Kansai Region. Then the Japanese national government in 1966 decided that the whole country should have a Keirō-no-Hi (敬老の日). It was […]