I recently had to read in science news that washing machines can contain pathogens. While everywhere else, at least in Europe, the laundry of nurses is done with industrial machines, British nurses have to do their laundry at home. They have to use their own washing machines and they have to choose a 60°C program. […]

According to the Bible, you have to ask in order to get. Yet is this enough? Many people are in need. Some people are starving today. I can’t imagine that people, who really suffer, are too proud for praying to God. Many people certainly have a haughty spirit. But this is something, which you have […]

The International Church of Christ is criticized for being a cult and alluring new members by love bombing and then putting more and more pressure on them. They shall give a lot of money, which is used mainly for the expansion of the Church and fulfilling the needs of new members. Hence this actually is […]

This is a first addendum on the article, which I published on the USA’s National Day of Reason. I wonder how Atheists dare to criticize religious practices as unconstitutional, though Atheism, too, is a religion. It has several denominations (Brights, Marxists, Pastafari) and some imitate christian religious rituals like the Sunday Service (Sunday Assembly). So […]

Schrödinger’s Cat is a very modern metaphor for uncertainty. But already Aristotle must have understood the principle of Schrödinger’s Cat, so that he was able to explain that people can be of three kinds: living, dead, or sailors. The people, who stayed on land, could never be sure whether a sailor was still alive or […]

In this article series, I usually treat earlier historical periods previous to later historical periods because this is how it also is done in history classes. But some things can never be understood this way! I for example wondered for a very long time why people in Antiquity always preferred axes over saws, so that […]

During my time in Hong-Kong, I visited several Churches. One of them was the International Church of Christ. The guy, who hears God’s voice, brought me in contact with people of that Church. Yet he wasn’t too fond of them and didn’t attend their Service. We had just met them on a big event. But […]

Banks around 1900 issued banknotes, which were small sheets of paper and weren’t money, but proved that you own money and [the banknotes] could get exchanged against it. On the banknotes was written how much they were worth. The Spanish-German merchant Silvio Gesell wrote many critiques on this practice. He wondered: “What are fifty dollars?” […]

People hate my guts (a side-effect of not drinking) for something, which has nothing to do with them, because they compare themselves with each other. So they somehow must think that I’d be better than them. To me still no reason to hate anybody, but it seems to be a very widespread reason of hatred. […]

I wonder why Ueshiba Morihei (植芝 盛平) disliked Kanō Jigorō (嘉納 治五郎) enough to spread lies about him, which among aikidōka (合気道家) still are believed to the present day, though Ueshiba Morihei (植芝 盛平) and Kanō Jigorō (嘉納 治五郎) basically shared the same dream of giving back to budō (武道) its original purpose of ending […]