Simple usually sounds so simple, but a simple life can be more complicated and unsatisfying than a stressful, perhaps even exhausting, but fulfilling life. An empty life, on the other hand, is boring at best, but more likely it is … Weiterlesen
Two young adults are standing in a tram and one says to the other: “And then I was dead.” Obviously, he lacked the experience to realise that, as a corpse, he would not be able to say that.
However, such … Weiterlesen
Even before not only science, but almost the entire world, knows that plants are more than just natural beauty and human food, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist granted them something like emotions. We cannot understand why people consider animal welfare to … Weiterlesen
This is a so-called palindrome, a term that designates a word or a sentence that can be read in both directions, like, for example, Otto or Anna. The presumably longest German word of this kind was discovered by the philosopher … Weiterlesen
The first sentence of the wonderful Ada Lovelace seems disappointingly positivistic; but is immediately counteracted by the second one. For it is not about the obvious, the mere appearance, but about the communication between things, and this is anything but … Weiterlesen
Sounds tremendously plausible and not only proves the equally stupid and ingenious superiority of humans over mice (and all other living creatures), but also of Einstein’s – let’s call it: opportunism or late insight. After all, Einstein himself, together with … Weiterlesen
Perhaps it is sometimes due to the brain itself, which has less work with simple answers than with realistic, because very complex, relationships. As is well known, the brain tends to compare the unknown with the known in order to … Weiterlesen
Let’s start at the beginning: The German word for “living” (in the sense of the domestic environment in which one lives) is Wohnen. It has evolved from the Middle High German Wonne (bliss). Which sounds and appears very nice, because … Weiterlesen
Regardless of how intensely and pleasurably Epicurus advocated the quality of the present, we have to clearly admit that such a present does not really exist. As soon as one utters the word ‘now’, this now and all that it … Weiterlesen
Solitude can only be truly experienced if it is played out in a societal context. As an opposition to (the) other sociable people. On one’s own, without a high-contrast counterpart, there is no contradiction.
