The new world is devoid of humour. People are being axed left, right and centre. Replacing real people with self-driving buses, fully automated supermarket checkouts and airline phone lines is like a lottery win. And now artificial intelligence? Soon, machines will be able to do everything, even generate deceptively authentic articles. Does this mean the end of all certainty? The end of all jobs?
Spirituality is extremely personal – a new, freer form of belief ...
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...
On April 18, 1955, shortly after midnight, Albert Einstein dies in Princeton Hospital, New Jersey. In accordance with his wishes, his body is cremated and his ashes scattered in an unknown place. Before that, however, the pathologist Thomas Harvey ...
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 ...
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 ...
veryone is racing around, consuming, living. Thank goodness there are also some people slamming the brakes on, standing up for regionality, deliberation and slow food.
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 [...]