Boys and girls have quite different interests when it comes to toys. You know that old story that boys are interested in cars and electronic stuff, whereas girls fancy dolls.
If this assumption that many people think of as ordinary is turned upside down things become difficult: People tend to think of boys being interested in [...]
As you get older blackouts seem to come more often: You remember someone’s face but not his name. You recall situations and don’t know if they were real. You’re forgetting things you’ve done, should have done or better not should have done. That’s somehow okay if no one else is involved in that blackouts but [...]
The species of man is still a worthy field of research. Men and women change their social roles continuously and everyone is affected by those changes when new roles aspire.
But it’s one thing to think of social or biological roles and another thing to be such a biological thing. Especially in being a man: You [...]
Jörn Thießen von der SPD hat gefordert, man solle Bürger mit Bußgeld belegen, wenn sie nicht wählen gehen, und bekundet damit: Die Krise in der SPD geht weiter.
Denn hinter dieser Forderung steht ja die Haltung, der potentielle Wähler wäre aus Faulheit zuhause geblieben. Das glaube ich nicht. Zwar ist das EU-Parlament der Ort, an dem [...]
Last week I had it on slam poetry, a special form of poetry not everyone likes. They are quite similar to other forms of storytelling.
Short stories and fairy tales are often considered differently: You love them or you hate them. To worship those parts of literature you have to take a look into their world. [...]
I never really got into poetry slam so far. I always sounded too unliterary to me. I am really used to books and I clearly attribute to myself to have some kinde of taste in literature, which is quite normal being confronted with those classics. Slame poetry always seemed to ignore those achievements, the audience [...]
