Planetary boundaries: Vital also in water
Lack of oxygen in lakes repeatedly leads to fish deaths. Photo: imago/STAR-MEDIA Around the world, the oxygen content of seas, lakes and rivers is decreasing rapidly. One points to this…
Dr. Schmidt explains the world: Can a person survive a lightning strike?
Photo: dpa/Patrick Pleul In Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony A family sheltered under a tree during a downpour. Lightning then struck a tree nearby; there were several injured. Why does electricity actually…
Birgit Sauer: Intersectional state theory: “Transforming the monster”
Doesn’t look that threatening: Leviathan, the mythical sea monster, has symbolized the state since Thomas Hobbes’s work of the same name. Photo: imago/Kharbine-Tapabor The Western welfare state is a deeply…
Slave Cubela: The working class has been left speechless
The struggle of the working class in the 20th century went into idealization, became part of the rule and then finally discarded – like the heroic mural on uranium mining.…
Bayreuth Festival: Alas, alas, my child!
Pretty rough in Bayreuth: Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson’s festival production of “Tristan and Isolde” Photo: picture alliance/dpa/Bayreuther Festpiele/Enrico Nawrath Suddenly it comes to my head: “Oh dear! Oh! Oh, the evil…
nd focus: Age: Why can’t old bands die?
Make a characteristic hand gesture! Roger Daltrey at a 2023 stadium concert in Lancashire, England. Photo: IMAGO/Mike Gray/Avalon.red They never come back? The saying may apply to boxers, but it…
nd focus: Old age: The dangerous old ones
Out of the roles, into the roles: Shapeshifter Jean-Luc Godard, 2013. Photo: dpa/KEYSTONE/EPA/Jean-Christophe Bott A late work can be many things, even brilliant. But one thing is not: another early…
nd focus: Age: aging, but not growing up
Hoodie, cap and sunglasses: Should look cool, but expresses more of a teenager’s taste. Photo: IMAGO/Pond5 Images It’s hardly a secret that Millennials – roughly those born between 1980 and…
Ezzes by Estis: Irrational nonsense
How much money do you have to have in order to be exposed by the Pommfritzbudentum members as a member of international financial Jewry? Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Karl Josef…
Behavioral Biology: The Languages of Animals
Elephants use specific calls to communicate when they are about to leave together. Photo: dpa/Klaus Blume Elephants are fascinating and highly intelligent animals. It is not for nothing that it…