On the construction site, things rarely go as planned. And above all, things are not going as planned. An experience that Federal Building Minister Klara Geywitz (SPD) is making. Their plan actually envisaged: 400,000 new apartments per year, 100,000 of them as social housing. This is what the federal government has decided to do and created a separate building ministry with a budget worth billions. Nevertheless, the new building goal does not work, not in the past year and probably...
On the construction site, things rarely go as planned. And above all, things are not going as planned. An experience that Federal Building Minister Klara Geywitz (SPD) is making. Their plan actually envisaged: 400,000 new apartments per year, 100,000 of them as social housing. This is what the federal government has decided to do and created a separate building ministry with a budget worth billions. Nevertheless, the new building goal does not work, not in the past year and probably...
More than 5,400 satellites, civil or military, revolve around the Earth. There were only 2,787 at the end of 2020. They must also do gymkhana between space debris, numbering 36,000 according to the latest estimates from the European Space Agency (ESA), and again, counting only those with a size greater than 10 cm. That is to say if orbital congestion is accelerating, and the risks of collision with it.Avoiding these accidents, costly for space operators, and hypothetically dangerous for those...
Poetry is like protest: one or the other sometimes shows up unexpectedly and in unexpected places. On the street for example. The climate stickers take advantage of this; Traffic jams generate trouble and attention. But the congested traffic offers even more opportunities. A Munich resident recently wanted to use it to his advantage by placing a large screen behind the rear window of his SUV, on which he let LED statements flicker. However, it was of a rather rude nature....
Poetry is like protest: one or the other sometimes shows up unexpectedly and in unexpected places. On the street for example. The climate stickers take advantage of this; Traffic jams generate trouble and attention. But the congested traffic offers even more opportunities. A Munich resident recently wanted to use it to his advantage by placing a large screen behind the rear window of his SUV, on which he let LED statements flicker. However, it was of a rather rude nature....
Anyone who commutes by car every morning, for example on the Föhringer Ring to one of the media companies in Unterföhring or on the B 471 to Ismaning, should have taken note of the news that was disseminated at the beginning of the week rather boredly - and very likely at walking pace or even standing: Munich is once again Germany's traffic jam capital. People here spend an average of 74 hours a year bumper to bumper in their cars.But...
Status: 01/11/2023 10:23 am In Las Vegas, a company owned by Elon Musk is testing an idea to relieve congested inner cities: driving a car in its own tunnel system. A test drive awakened associations with a system that already exists. By Nils Dampz, ARD Studio Los Angeles It goes down twelve meters into a hall with nine parking spaces. Underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center, the colors pink, green and blue dominate: the light comes from neon tubes that...
Munich has done it again: According to the latest surveys by the traffic data provider Inrix, the state capital has once again taken first place among the cities with the most congestion in Germany and can therefore once again call itself the "congestion capital".For its statistics, Inrix has analyzed anonymized data from various sources such as datasets from telephones, vehicles and cities. According to the company, the data shows the volume of traffic on the road sections examined over the...
A journey through the music of the 20th century awaits the guests in Café Mala in the monastery building yard on Friday, January 13th. As part of the "Jam Sessions - Jazz at Mala" series, the 20th Century Rocks visiting, consisting of Christian Schantz (double bass & composition), Josef Reßle (piano) and Andreas Krieger (drums).The three musicians take the audience on a musical journey through the history of jazz, rock and pop over the past century. Artists and bands as...
It takes less than 30 seconds to see Vladimir Putin's face. In the 2019 video for the song "Ikarus (I Feel a Change)" by the Austrian band Hearts Hearts. The accompanying text tells of hope for social and economic change. And Putin, like the British politician Nigel Farage, who died in 2020, actually only appears in the video as a bogeyman. Today, of course, it seems a little different. The image of the Russian president immediately takes on a great...
