Tag: Germany
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This is the Real Future of AI
Scientists all over the world are using AI-assisted technologies in work that has the potential to lead to major advances in medicine, agriculture and mathematics. Why are we not hearing about them?
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Learning to Live in the World as It Is
Instead of simply exhorting the rest of the world to get on board with the American way of space cooling, we really should be looking to Europe and other regions for clues to adapting our habits to the world that we are in, instead of remaining stubbornly attached to the artificial world that we created,…
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Two Words: General Strike
In November of 1948, workers in the British and American-occupied sectors of west Germany (then known as the Bi-Zone Economic Area, Bizonia for short) staged the largest single-day strike in the nation’s history. More than nine million workers, out of a total workforce of 11.7 million, stayed home from work, shutting down mines, factories, mills,…
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The Truth About ‘Free Healthcare’
It is true that all countries in Europe have what is known as “universal healthcare,” meaning that all people in a given country or region are able to get the medical care that they need, when and where they need it, without financial hardship. But …
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The German Art of ‘House Burping,’ Explained
This being Germany, there are definite strategies and procedures for proper lüften. These depend onthe season, what kind of home you live in, and how one’s mother taught you to do it when you were growing up.
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The Soon Forgotten – A coda
Since moving to Berlin, I am often struck by the streets, buildings and parks named to honor people who were killed by the Nazis, and wishing that the vastly more numerous loyal National Socialists could see and know that they themselves would not be among the triumphant victors of a great thousand-year reich, but instead…
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Not Working for the Man
We support organized labor. My husband is a member of the Ver.di union. And one of the main reasons we decided to move our family to Germany and the European Union was so our kids would start their working lives with more rights and protections than we had in the United States. So, while it…
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Fiddling While the World Burns
Why I still nag mz son to do his homework even when it feels like the world is ending.
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