Women and guns – photos from the American culture

Before listening recently to the words of a hatred filled woman talking about gunning down Afro-Americans in the wake of Katrina, it hadn’t really crossed my mind to associate women with guns. Far from being sexist, I somehow had the notion of a wiser and more gentle gender, of women by their very nature being [...]

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Architecture: new look for the Danube Flower building – but what about the environment?

Communist architecture wasn’t exactly known for aesthetic beauty or bold futuristic design. The only exception I’m aware of so far (and there are probably a handful of  others) was the colossal Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, which remained a shell coz the regime ran out of money. Here though is another, much more modest example (in a round-about [...]

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Another crazy biodiesel idea: fuel made from coffee

The biofuel madness continues unabated. It’s been obvious for years now that the concept has mainly disadvantages from both an ecological as well as a global justice perspective: more forests are chopped down to make room for fuel crops, biofuel production uses more energy than you get from using the end product, less area is [...]

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