I complained that Wikipedia really spreads plenty of nonsense about aikidō (合気道) and tried to put things straight. I meanwhile understand how the Wikipedia article was made. The problem again is that a mere re-mixer has been hyped as an Artificial Intelligence and was allowed to remix some texts, which resulted in that Wikipedia article. […]

“The Beginners’ Spirit” is an article, which I wrote quite a while ago. Jesse Enkamp is a social media star and also a great writer. So his article about encounters with beginners also is a good read, especially for those, who want to understand the concept of the beginners’ spirit.

A group of scientists from the university of Bayreuth (Germany) recently tested 112 pairs of jogging shoes. The producers also test their shoes, but the scientists weren’t content with the standard method, which doesn’t consider individual movement patterns. The scientists thought that the shoes could be the cause of annually forty-five percent of joggers having […]

Elon Musk founded another business and this for running the “artificially intelligent” chat-bot Grok. This chat-bot recently made some headlines because it dared to doubt whether the holocaust is a historical fact. Grok also made headlines by confirming that the genocide, in which South-African white farmers are murdered, is factual. Grok really is required to […]

The Lutheran Church kept the tenet of the inextinguishable christening when forking from the Catholic Church. It is the only Sacrament, which both Churches still have in common. But the Catholic Church somehow doesn’t have a position in the strife between the Lutheran Church and the International Church of Christ. Probably because the Catholic Church […]

While I studied at a real university, mumps still was called German measles. I wonder whether adopting the German name for it is meant as a kind of apology. However, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in an interview that the mumps portion of the MMR vaccine never worked. […]

This is the second addendum on the article, which I published on the USA’s National Day of Reason. I in the article and its first addendum mentioned only denominations of Atheism. But I don’t want to sound biased, so I should have a look at voices, who declare reason an enemy to faith. This is foremost […]

This is a special edition within this article series. It is special insofar as it doesn’t treat a name found in an anime, but the name of an allegedly, though half-legendary, historical person. This historical person is Matsumura Sōkon (松村 宗棍), the founder of Shurite (首里手), in Okinawan dialect Suidi, and hence one of the […]

Many martial artists yell during the performance of certain techniques. The yell is called kiai (気合). Authors of books on self-defense love to explain that your kiai (気合) increases your courage while it at the same time scares your opponent. In karatedō, kiai (気合) is explained as your kime (決め) peaking. This of course raises […]

The Japanese, too, had a code of knighthood, the bushidō (武士道). It consists of seven virtues: gi (義): right action, duty; yūki (雄気): courage; jin (仁): benevolence; rei (礼): politeness; makoto (誠): truthfulness; meiyo (名誉): reputation; chūgi (忠義): honor. Why are these exactly seven in number? It’s like they asked to get assigned to the seven […]