From Inside Germany: Teabags, toothpaste, tinkerers
August 6, 2009 von admin · Kommentieren Sie diesen Beitrag ·
Do you know Ottomar von Mayenburg? Have you ever heard of Heinrich Wöhlk or Rudolf Hell? Or have you ever come across with the name Fritz Pfleumer? Even if their names are forgotten, their inventions are omnipresent. Weiterlesen
From Inside Germany: Pirates to capture the German Parliament
Juli 6, 2009 von admin · 2 Kommentare ·
While newspapers and TV are reporting on pirates being up to mischief far-out offshore Somalia, capturing ships and holding the crew to ransom, a more peaceful group of pirates have gathered in Germany. Weiterlesen
From Inside Germany: Images in the Head
Juni 18, 2009 von admin · Kommentieren Sie diesen Beitrag ·
A young soldier jumping over a barbed wired fence between East- and West-Berlin, Chancellor Willy Brand kneeling in front of the cenotaph of the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, or the flying of the Soviet-flag on the Reichstag in 1945 – these are events which are strongly fixed in the collective memory bank. They are fixed as images. Weiterlesen
From Inside Germany: Tidal Dwarf Galaxies ‘met’ in Bad Honnef!
Juni 10, 2009 von admin · Kommentieren Sie diesen Beitrag ·
In 1956 an eccentric Swiss astronomer, Fritz Zwicky, proposed that some galaxies could have formed from the debris expelled during the interaction between larger galaxies. When two galaxies get close to each other the mutual gravitational force is strong enough to trail out some stellar and gaseous material, from which new, smaller and fainter galaxies may form. Weiterlesen
From Inside Germany: Merchandising the Seven Mountains – Increasing protest against a national park
Mai 30, 2009 von admin · Kommentieren Sie diesen Beitrag ·
Who had ever been to Germany would not have missed to visit the Seven Mountains with the so called “highest peak of the Netherlands”, the Drachenfels. The placid and romantic mountain range is not only one of the most famous landscapes in Germany, becoming a reservation area already in 1922 it is also one the oldest wildlife founded parks. Weiterlesen
From Inside Germany: New rules shall sort things out – But the managers don’t like it
Mai 23, 2009 von admin · Kommentieren Sie diesen Beitrag ·
This week Chancellor Angela Merkel received an angry remonstrative letter from twelve chairmen of the supervisory board of some of the largest companies in Germany. Therein they demand the abdication of tightening the new rules for managers from the government. Weiterlesen
From Inside Germany: Political vote catching with hairdryers and sharks
Mai 12, 2009 von admin · Kommentieren Sie diesen Beitrag ·
What has a hairdryer to do with politics in Europe? Experts could assume that maybe a new law for the quantity of hot air a hairdryer is allowed to emit has been enacted. Weiterlesen
From Inside Germany: The German Currywurst - A tasty success story
Mai 5, 2009 von admin · Kommentieren Sie diesen Beitrag ·
It’s true: Germans eat sauerkraut and liver dumpling (Leberknödel), they like brown bread (Schwarzbrot) and they drink beer. But what they like most is the famous currywurst. Uncounted are the currywurst stands all over Germany. Currywurst (engl. Curried sausage) Weiterlesen
From Inside Germany: German politicians discovering the internet
April 27, 2009 von admin · Kommentieren Sie diesen Beitrag ·
Since being in office, chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a weekly video-message to the German people. She is doing that via internet. Therein she speaks about current political decisions as well as about topics from strategic interest. Weiterlesen
From Inside Germany: Scrap bonus – Who realy benefits
April 20, 2009 von admin · Kommentieren Sie diesen Beitrag ·
Germans are bargain hunters. They use to buy things not only if they need them, but also if they see the chance to grab a bargain. That sometimes causes weird consumer behavior. For example: (…) Weiterlesen
From Inside Germany: Twitter also booming in Germany – Increase of 400 percent (En/De)
April 18, 2009 von admin · Kommentieren Sie diesen Beitrag ·
Microblogging-service Twitter is becoming one of the most popular internet service in Germany. In February Twitter.com observed already 760.000 visitors from Germany, “Google Ad Planner” informed. Weiterlesen
From Inside Germany: 100.000 Dollar award for homoeopathic success (En/De)
April 12, 2009 von admin · 1 Kommentar ·
Some swear on it, others regard it simply as charlatanry. Concerning homoeopathy opinions are divided. Now a German medical scientist offers 100.000 Dollar to everyone, proving the efficacy of homoeopathy. Weiterlesen
From Inside Germany: Innovative German Web 2.0 Magazine FreieHONNEFER Takes on Giants
April 6, 2009 von admin · Kommentieren Sie diesen Beitrag ·
More and more German newspaper readers switch from perusing daily newspapers or weekly magazines to browsing the news on the Web. And even if some chief editors of leading German printed newspapers (…) Weiterlesen
From inside Germany: Three-day UN conference for lasting education in Bonn
April 1, 2009 von admin · 1 Kommentar ·
The German UN town Bonn is the host of the Unesco-world conference “Education for lasting development - Starting signal for the second half time of the UN decade“ from the 31st of March to the 2nd of April. Weiterlesen
