How to Do a Blitz

47th POTUS Donald Trump and his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth thought they’d be able to defeat Iran in a blitz. Yet nobody knows how to do a blitz. Many Americans think that it would be a method of warfare invented by Nazi Germany and hence having a German name. But a Blitz in German […]

Nihongodera Doesn’t Exist Anymore

Nihongodera was a great website offering Japanese language tools. Nihongodera contained a Japanese-English dictionary with more entries than any other online dictionary, which I so far know. Nihongodera also covered rare or strange kanji pronunciations and contained a tool, which guessed the pronunciation of Japanese writings, sometimes even correctly. Nihongodera was a website full of […]

The John Brockman Connection

In the current era of the end of science shouldn’t be too surprising that science has a gatekeeper. He’s from New York and his name is John Brockman. He’s a literary agent who helps pop star scientists like Richard Dawkins land book deals worth millions. That’s why Richard Dawkins is a famous author and I’m […]

German Peculiarities: Educational System (Part 8)

Classmates in Germany can stay classmates up to nine years, depending on the type of secondary school. Why does the secondary school type Gymnasium take such a long time? Elementary school in Germany takes four years and these are two years less than in other countries. So another two years are part of all types […]

Fake Accusations Are the 101 of Bullying

This article is about an example from an American tv series. It’s the topic of already the third episode of the first season of the tv series Victorious. The protagonist Tori Vega studies acting at an arts academy and occasionally gets bullied by her fellow student Jade West. The two girls in the third episode […]

“God’s Scribe” Jakob Lorber

The nineteenth century visionary and christian mystic Jakob Lorber, who called himself “God’s Scribe”, was born in Kanischa, a small village in the Jahring parish, Duchy of Styria (now Kaniža pri Jarenini in Lower Styria, Slovenia). He transcribed what he heard from an inner voice from the region of his heart. The result was the […]

How to Really Fend-Off Bullies: Escalation

“(First,) There is no first strike in karate” is the second of the Shōtō nijū-kun (松濤二十訓), so I chose a topic, which has something to do with this second precept, for this second part of this article series. Halfway sane people anyway don’t want to hurt other people. This even can mean to leave the […]