Vorurteile sind angenehme Zeitgenossen. Als ich zum ersten Mal in Kanada landete, wunderte ich mich sehr, dass Toronto nicht wie der erwartete Hochhausdschungel, sondern eher wie eine Waldlandschaft mit vereinzelten Häusern erschien. Und auf der Umzugsreise in die USA war unser Erstaunen gross, nicht schon beim Grenzübergang, spätestens aber im ersten Motel von durchgedrehten Unterhemdträgern […]
I’m not sure what it all means, if anything, but plugging Neuroscience into Google’s newest toy, Google Trends, reveals a downward trend of Neuroscience related searches in recent years, an upward trend in Neuroscience news items, and Korea to be the top nation in the world when it comes to searching for Neuroscience. Within the […]
Körperliche Gebresten – das hat die Natur so in uns hineinprogrammieren lassen, mit Bleistift auf alte Servietten probehalber als Algorithmus entworfen und dann der Biologie in einer zerfledderten Aufsichtsmappe auf den Schreibtisch geknallt, hier, so geht Primat, bis Montag will ich das implementiert, aber fehlerfrei, zackzack; Biologie stöhnt, ists aber andererseits gewohnt, und tatsächlich wird […]
Let me start by saying that we didn’t actually deliberately rent this. Rather, we inherited a box with four VHS tapes of Hitchcock classics, three of which I had never heard of. The fourth was indeed a classic, so we watched that. I should have been suspicious at the distinct snapping sound I heard when […]
Die Grauhaarige kommt nach ein paar Minuten wieder, entschuldigt sich bei mir und dem dicken Mann, einem Xerox-Wartetechniker, für ihre mangelnde Organisation, und überlässt mir dann Stuhl und Telefon. Erstes Etappenziel. Nun habe ich aber keinerlei Telefonnummer zur Hand. Die einzige Verbindung zu einer Welt, in der ich keine bluttropfende Schmutzschleuder sondern ein leidender Freund […]
If you liked the quirky humour of the lyrics of Sparks last album, Lil’ Beethoven, and the bombast of their musical arrangements, you’ll probably also love their newest bundle, though you might not find enough songs markedly distinct from the previous work for comfort, that the spirit behind something like “As I sit Down to […]
Sometimes one opens a book, or reads a first line, and immediately it’s clear that the thoughts and concepts that went into the work were sorely missing from the world, yet nobody had realized it before. Such is the case with this gem of philosophical reasoning. An essay on the essence of bullshit, and an […]
There isn’t much I’m going to say about this magnificent genre marriage of film noir thriller with highschool drama, except: go, see it. A remarkable script, pitch perfect performances, a multitude of lovely details and references: Just go, already. I’ll add the thought that kept popping into my head during the second half of the […]
If anyone were following the reviews on this blog, a pattern of Nazi movie obsession in recent weeks would become apparent. This is partly due to an unchecked adding frenzy to our Netflix queue quite a while ago, and I’m growing a bit tired of it. So this probably explains in part why this documentary […]
There is mythological evidence from the middle ages, suggesting the Swabians were a jolly, lively people then, full of vigour and joy. You wouldn’t think it today, and the introductory section of this book, meant to show Swabians in the best possible light and endowed with a preface by Cleverle Späth, is a case in […]