Dog lovers don't like to hear it, but some archaeologists are of the opinion that dogs were domesticated for their meat - which they believe is pro...

Shearing has long since ceased to be a punishment: today, a shaved head is a fashionable thing, which became a trademark with Yul Brynner [3]. On t...

The furor over whiskers that spread in the electronics industry following the introduction of RoHS (see NASA, for example) seems to have largely su...

If you browse through a British encyclopaedia, you get the impression that everything was invented by the British. This opinion changes when you pi...

This lion is very suspicious of the spiked animal with its shy look and of course has a good reason for it. Sophia Loren's wry look [2] has also ma...

Although you cannot tell the taste of the contents from the size of the cup, the connoisseur knows that an Italian espresso or Turkish coffee, for ...

Despite Einstein, or perhaps because of him, physicists still have difficulties with time. Especially from space or from one of the not cheap accel...

"The sense - and this sentence is certain - is always the nonsense that one leaves", philosopher Odo Marquard Wilhem Busch modified [1]. As is so o...

Whenever far-reaching decisions are made for mankind and industry, it becomes clear how little scientific groundwork decision-makers have done. The...