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#GetAtHome Work: Arche Noah in Schiltern, A Lesson in Time

Another year, another May 1 I went out to support Arche Noah (Noah’s Ark, Austria’s society for the preservation of heirloom plant varieties) in their spring plant sale.

Living Between Cultures, or: What Cultural Relativism Really Is

The more people get together, the further they seem to be driven apart. Thinking fast, not with cultural relativism…

Reflections on a Birthday

Another circle around the sun is done; one more and it will be a round number of them again. Reason to celebrate? I don’t know.

Know Thyself, PET Scan Edition

I have never felt so not-depressed. Being very Viennese in temperament – and by way of explanation, let’s just say there’s a reason this was the city where Freud found lots of iss…

How to Compare Yourself For Motivation, Not Madness

As a social species, we continually compare ourselves to those around us. It’s natural. Unfortunately, as a species with social media (and traditional media with society pages), we don’…

Going with a Motto (for 2017)

Trying to orient a year of your life along the lines of a word, three words, a motto… It’s one of those things that have become so popular, I rather hate the idea. I don’t even like to …

Why Learn When You Can Google

All those little facts, such clutter in a brain, right? Learning in school already seemed a useless amassing of facts long before internet search engines ever came along. Historical dates without c…

Try This! New Foods, Changing Tastes, Personal Growth

Chasing happiness and trying to feel better, many people nowadays follow one or the other moral or ‘medical’ argument and stop eating certain foods. Even where there is less thought of …