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Stets aktuell - As always so true

Es ist ein gefährlicher Weg, ständig nach Führern zu rufen, die sagen, wo es langgeht.

It is a dangerous path to constantly call for leaders to tell us where to go.

Rita Süßmuth (*1937), German politician

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“Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Why not a dictator who will get things done? I lived in eastern Europe when memories of communism were fresh. I have visited regions in Ukraine where Russia imposed its occupation regime. I have spent decades reading testimonies of people who lived under Nazi or Stalinist rule. I have seen death pits, some old, some freshly dug. And I have friends who have lived under authoritarian regimes, including political prisoners and survivors of torture. Some of the people I trusted most have been assassinated. So I think that there is an answer to this question. Strongman rule is a fantasy. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won’t. In a democracy, elected representatives listen to constituents. We take this for granted, and imagine that a dictator would owe us something. But the vote you cast for him affirms your irrelevance. The whole point is that the strongman owes us nothing. We get abused and we get used to it.”

— The Strongman Fantasy - by Timothy Snyder

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Die Grundlage der Meinungsfreiheit muß Freiheit in der Meinungsbildung sein!

The basis of freedom of expression must be freedom in forming opinions!

Werner Braun (1926 – 2012), German musicologist

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Just when we thought octopuses couldn’t be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the planet.

In a surprising twist, in April 2017 scientists discovered that octopuses, along with some squid and cuttlefish species, routinely edit their RNA (ribonucleic acid) sequences to adapt to their environment.

This is weird because that’s really not how adaptations usually happen in multicellular animals. When an organism changes in some fundamental way, it typically starts with a genetic mutation - a change to the DNA.

Continue Reading.

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A perfect example of something, that probably was made, to show it could be made.

Sword Guard (Tsuba), Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arms and Armor

The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Iron, copper

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/30003

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The ideals might change but art will always bei art.

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A Visualisation of the Airflow with and without a Facemask. This is done by Utilising Schlieren Imaging.

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