Across Cultures

The other day, my friend Trevor, a PhD-student at La Trobe, sent me these excellent quotes: The monomaths do not only swarm over a specialis...

Today, Brigitte Bardot turns 75, and I turn 56 - I doubt that she knows about this coincidence (if there are any, that is). The other day, t...

It could be said, then, that the best answer to "What is everything?" is "Look and see!" Alan Watts: The Book on the Tab...

"Das Ende meiner Sucht" von Olivier Ameisen ist ein unbedingt lesenswertes Buch, das davon berichtet, wie der Autor, ein erfolgrei...

Remember the debates about (North) American and European mentalities when G.W. Bush was in office (unelected - I'm still convinced or is...

Brazil is the smallest big country in the world. Although it is the fifth largest nation on the planet, four times the size of Mexico and mo...

In Paese @ Antonia Zennaro When I recently came across the homepage of Antonia Zennaro, a young photographer living in Hamburg, and st...