The Englishman Roger Whittaker, who sang German, died a few days ago at the age of 87. One of his best-known songs bears the title that I have adopted for this article ("Abschied ist ein scharfes Schwert"; Farewell is a sharp sword).No matter how tough you seem to be,...
"Spektrum der Wissenschaft" (the German translation of "Scientific American") recently published an article entitled: "Will we ever find a world formula?", and prepared an opportunity to formulate a letter to the editor directly below. (You can read the fragments I...
Our Garfield is dead. After 17.5 years with us. So, his body is no longer there. But his spirit is free again. Let's see in what form he might return to us. And we, my wife and I, are also free again. For the first time in our marriage, we are free to leave the house...
On 30 June 2023, the ZDF documentary by Jens Niehuss: "Drought in Europe; The catastrophe is homemade" was broadcast again on Arte-tv; it will remain online until 27.07.2023) In the commentary on Arte-tv we read: Drought in Europe The catastrophe is homemade Lower...
More than ten years ago, I was a witness when Dr Eckart von Hirschhausen used one of his entertainment events (in Gelsenkirchen) to make fun of homeopaths, among other things. As I was already sure at the time that Mr von Hirschhausen was talking complete nonsense in...
