Tag: Oddities
Nepal: prayer flags made of organic cotton – panorama
When colorful prayer flags flutter in the wind, it looks pretty – the deeper meaning is little known to non-Buddhists. Each color is assigned a direction, an element and an…
Blue light in the rearview mirror: people, animals, flying objects – Munich
They come up every year – the reports that fail to make the leap from the operational reports of the state or federal police, the Munich customs or the fire…
Australia: Birdsong album at number three in the charts – Panorama
The current Abba title “Bumblebee” pays homage to a “small, fluffy ball” that “can hardly fly”. A Hummel anthem – from a band that sang about Adler 44 years ago…
Beware, spider: incident at Australian press conference – Panorama
Spiders, mice, golden retrievers: when health ministers meet animals, things can get exciting. This is shown by an incident at a press conference in Australia. As a health minister, you…
column "End of the journey": Vacation on the ISS
We only have this one world – and one space station. It is the best place for a corona-free vacation. .source site
The British Espionage Service and its Christmas Card – Panorama
The British news and espionage service doesn’t pretend to long for world peace with its digital Christmas card – it has an important message for children and young people. Just…
SZ column "In the middle of": Heaven full of viruses
A SZ editor experienced a corona explosion in Dresden at night – but a brilliant one. Three anecdotes from Germany. .source site
London: Christmas sweater for a T-Rex – panorama
Arms have the disadvantage that they are thinner at the bottom than at the top, which is a miserable count when knitting sweater sleeves: stitches have to be increased every…
Coalition agreement: paper comes from Zerkall – Panorama
In the Futurium exhibition center in Berlin, top politicians from the SPD, Greens and FDP signed the traffic light coalition agreement. The paper with the red-yellow-green strings on which the…
SZ column "Best things": The glitter of Mont Blanc
A few years ago a climber found a box of jewels on a glacier. Now the honest finder can keep half – 150,000 euros. .source site