Besides men having riskier jobs and riskier lifestyles, women live longer than men because the second X-chromosome serves as a backstop in case that an X-chromosomal gene is dysfunctional. The since many decades known mechanism is that half of the cells of the female body use the maternal (inherited from the mother) X-chromosome and half […]

Here’s a poem: The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear […]

Before I went to the Ten-Thousand Buddhas Temple in Sha-Tin, sisters-in-Christ and brothers-in-Christ warned me not to go to a Buddhist place. I always wonder why persons, who allegedly believe in an omnipresent God, can fear to go to physically harmless places. (A radioactively contaminated place would be something different.) Especially to religious places of […]

Silly is asteroid #129234, also known as 2005 PS5. Silly’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.24 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.04, a period of revolution of 1’227 days, and an inclination of 6.7 degrees. Silly was discovered by the French engineer and amateur astronomer Bernard Christophe at the Saint-Sulpice Observatory (Observatoire […]

A balloonist had to find that he lost orientation. He sees a man on the ground, so lets the balloon sink and asks the man: “Excuse me! Can you help me? I had promised to a friend to meet him half an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am!” The man on the […]

Elsa from the ELSAELSA blog sometimes talks about egregores. Because the egrogore is an important concept in magick, so I wanted to give a definition. But while I was pondering over this topic, Elsa already gave a definition better than I could have done it: “Egregore” can be defined as a non-physical entity created by […]

In the night between November, 24th and November, 25th in last year, ten-thousand cartridges for pistols in caliber 9 mm, nine-thousand-nine-hundred blank cartridges for the G36 assault rifle, and fifteen pieces of pyrotechnical ammunition owned by the Bundeswehr got stolen in Burg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. This had been unthinkable beforehand. Due to reducing and then abolishing […]

Bivoj is asteroid #5797 and also known as 1980 AA. Bivoj measures four-hundred meters in diameter. Bivoj belongs to the Near-Earth Asteroids of the Amor group and is a Mars-orbit-crosser. Bivoj’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 1.89 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.44, a period of revolution of 952 days, and an […]

Mohandās Karamchand Gāndhī (मोहनदास करमचंद गांधी; in Gujarati: મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી), better known as Mahātmā Gāndhī (महात्मा गांधी), is quite famous and a big role in India’s way to independence is attributed to him. His religious and political beliefs however had by most Indians been rejected. Non-Indians were alienated by his ideas. So much that […]

Skip is asteroid #1884 and also known as 1943 EB1. Skip measures approximately 8.4 km in diameter. Skip’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.43 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.26, a period of revolution of 1’381 days, and an inclination of 21.8 degrees. Skip was discovered by the French astronomer Marguerite Laugier […]