The modern man is sufficiently insured against all possible eventualities, calamities and risks. The insurance industry is big business. The insurance corporation AIG is US-based and the biggest insurance company in the world. According to Forbes 2008 AIG was once the 18th largest public company in the world. It just shows that even in the USA, where many people seem to have difficulties with the public health insurance, the industry is big...

The era of Airships, also called Zeppelin, was a short one and ended tragically. The most famous airship, the Hindenburg (1), was 245 meter long, 41 meter in diameter and had a cruising speed of about 125 kilometer per hour, maximum speed 135 km/h. Normal cruising height was 200 meters. In normal cruise settings the Hindenburg burnt 130-180 kg Diesel fuel an hour. In 1937 the Hindenburg carried 72 passenger and 52 crew members....

The first month of the year has passed and quiet a lot has happened already. The Arab world is in turmoil and the balance of the powers to be are shifting into unmapped areas. Uncertainty is the result. The so called Free World is worried, even though Democracy was always high up on the agenda. It was even worth to go to war for. But it seems, it is troublesome if it happens spontaneously and without the guiding hand of the world powers. On...

The art of Homeopathy (1) was developed by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796. It got never to be the preferredtherapy in the medical world. Scientific proof could never ascertain, that Homeopathy really works. It is believed that the effects of Homeopathy are like Placebos. Still Homeopathy exists and has it’s followers. And it got, a kind of, support from modern physics. Quantum physics (2) is about the same level of size...

Although about 100 people regrettably lost their lives in the unrests in Egypt, the movement itself is very encouraging. The people are taking their fate into their own hands. The people decide in a non-violent manner, to change a political system. God speed to the people of Egypt and may they succeed, just as the people in Tunisia have succeeded. History offers some examples, how people succeeded in changing history in a non-violent...

The last post in this website was about the way of life of former British prime minister Mr. Tony Blair and how he sees the way ahead. Mr. Blair, together with former US president George W. Bush, was responsible for the second Gulf war. The incentive for going to war were the alleged Weapons of Mass-destruction and the will to get rid of the dictator Saddam Hussein and to bring Democracy to Iraq. The Weapons of Mass-destruction...