While gold still was money, some things functioned in a different way than today. While banks classically could give loans only from the money, which customers brought to the banks for storing it and paying interest on it, the modern way is that banks can give out as much money as loans as they want […]

While gold still was money, some things functioned in a different way than today. People classically brought their gold money to banks, which stored the money and paid interest on bank accounts. The additional money, which the banks needed for this task, came from the banks lending out money and getting interest for it. Banks […]

Some business administration is casually taught in the story problems in mathematics. At least in the mathematics textbooks used in my school during my time in school. Story problems in textbooks for German schools can be so complicated that hardly anybody understands anything, but these story problems are quite easy. They list the price and […]

I sometimes use the blog (in German language) of a German computer scientist as a source for my blog. One of the reasons for doing so is that the computer scientist did travel to places, which I couldn’t afford or even wouldn’t dare to go. To a township in South Africa for example. There he […]

An article by Martin Armstrong lists several toxic substances, which can be contained in food in the USA. Martin Armstrong in his article praises Canada, the UK, and the EU for banning such ingredients. Martin Armstrong on the other hand in several articles complains about the EU not admitting these toxic substances to the European […]

The USA’s Environment Protection Agency classifies fluoride as a hazardous waste. This seems to be surprising to many people, although fluoride being hazardous should be general knowledge. Several states meanwhile consequently ended tap water fluoridation and now have the problem that the remaining fluoride must be disposed of following strict environmental regulations. Quite strange that […]

East Asian cultures had little influence on Europe or America, so  the Chinese or the Japanese culture getting not mentioned at all is sad but somehow understandable. The Vikings also didn’t get mentioned at all in my history class, although they during three-hundred years were a powerful influence and left their traces. The era of […]

Dreams of flying or falling can be an intermediary step in developing the ability of astral traveling. So I perhaps could be happy that I recently had, as far as I know, my very first dream, in which I did fly. But I used an airplane and I soon crashed it. I also didn’t fly […]

The martial art, which I know best, is aikidō (合気道). There I can claim to be in a renowned lineage. I began with karate earlier, but there I still wasn’t interested in things like lineage and when I heard about the history of karate, then I heard about myths and uncritically believed them because martial […]

The life of the last Pope is well-documented. So I thought that he’d be a great candidate for some astrological research. But I was wrong. He passed away on April, 21st in 2025 and because it was Easter, so he had to be in the Vatican. The time, which was given in the news, ranged […]