The world has moved closer together, with the internet having turned our planet into a village. And how do people react? Let’s take a brief detour to another time of great upheaval – the 16th century ...
Is a fact still true even if it is not yet recognised as being true? Most people think so. After all, the planets were orbiting around the sun long before Copernicus came along, not orbiting the Earth, as they had believed in the Middle Ages. There was also gravity before anything fell out of the hand of the first humans. But do facts always remain the same? Or do they evolve ...
You do not need to travel to Papua New Guinea or Tierra del Fuego to have an adventure...
“Now, all that has changed. A means of loco motion for poor mountain farmers has become a luxurious leisure pursuit [...]
When Jay Sugg woke up, he felt hungover. It was dark and he couldn’t move, but then he didn’t even know the words “darkness” or “movement” ...
Apparently, in Japan you can go and watch sumo wrestlers training then have breakfast with them afterwards. That was something I wanted to experience ...
The architects of the Bauhaus are both brave and fearful, and that dichotomy is related to time. Time, claim some quantum physicists, does not exist ...
Only those who have time to engage themselves
can also experience and feel something [...]
Perfection is fleeting, so we need to see the beauty in the imperfect – that’s how the Japanese live with their philosophy of wabi-sabi, according to which all things are charming, even those with flaws. But it hasn’t been possible to carry this idea over to people, because in the land of the rising sun, it’s still business as usual: pressure, perfectionism, success ...
Lounging around half-naked with vine tendrils in your hair and a floozy on your arm, you look like a pimp who’s walked through a hedge backwards...
Guests are, according to his findings, more and more difficult. There are so many stories you
could write a book [...]
