The powerful warmongers of our present often leave us wondering why powerful people do such inhumane things. Is there a scientific explanation for this? How do people change through influence or fame? Do they become …
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How Does Power Change Us? A Glimpse into the Phenomenon Shaping Our World
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The Small Word with Big Meaning – Why a “No” is a Yes to Ourselves
No! The meaning of the small word “no” is of immense relevance in our times. In a world characterised not only by a flood of information but also by countless choices, a “no” holds the …
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Toys, not calculators!
The time when only the simple activities were automated is a thing of the past. Today, artificial intelligence is increasingly finding its way into classical knowledge work. The highly qualified jobs of well-educated people are …
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“Great again”? No, thanks!
What will the historians of the future call our epoch? As the ages of reorganization? As the epoch of social hysteria or distorted perception? As incipient post-capitalism? Facts versus alternative facts We live in parallel …
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Money and luck: Not a dream team?
World trip, own workshop, dream house, commitment to a project without having to make a living or help other people: People’s dreams of happiness are as varied as they are themselves. Is it possible to …
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Renaissance of religions. Luck or burden?
The age of Manchester capitalism seems to be over: Workers are no longer fully exploited physically and psychologically. Modern man is free and secure. But – will it stay that way? Our living and working …
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The voices in our head and the stars in the sky – is everything we have learned wrong?
Measurements prove that only what passes through the filters in our brain can penetrate our consciousness. Only when synchronously firing nerve cells react to an object in our field of vision does a reality appear …
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What to do when life gives us grief?
Think positive! That’s a real battle cry of our time. Even in the case of strokes of fate, it is expected that one recognizes the added value of such a one as soon as possible …
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Are we supposed to believe everything we think?
The voice in our head – is it the real us? Is it our subconscious that speaks to us and knows our true desires? No, it’s not our subconscious As early as the 1930s, the …
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Love – a learnable art?
Our culture of capitalism is regarded as the cause of many problems. Among other things, for our misconception of love. In capitalist culture, it is market value that counts! The value of an item is …
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Self-discipline?
How do self-disciplined people manage to win the battle against their7n inner bastard? Kentaro Fujita, who is researching self-discipline at Ohio State University, believes that they do not fight at all. They simply enjoy the …
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New economy – but old work?
Work today takes place in a completely new framework. It is not only becoming more flexible and self-determined, but also more insecure, believes US sociologist Richard Sennett. He believes that the new flexibility destroys the …
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Free will?
Every person should be allowed to follow his free will in order to develop his personality. That this free will exists at all is part of the basis of the philosophical school of thought of …
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The lie of the age of fake news!
Time and again we hear about fake news, our era is even called the “postfactual age”. The digital media are often cited as the reason for the beginning of this new era. Proof of this …
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Empathy – a cognitive megatrend
Empathy is regarded as the tool par excellence for putting oneself in another person’s shoes. But – what is empathy and – is it really always good for us? Cognition researchers distinguish two types of …
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Your other – secret – life.
We all lead it: a double life. Back in the realm of gravity – awakening. We wake up in the morning and it is as if we are returning from another world. Shadowy only we …
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The Robopeut of my trust – artificial intelligence as a therapist
Facebook searched Videos and contributions with artificial intelligenceto find out if one of the users is attempting suicide. Discontinued model human therapist? If someone plans a suicide and Facebook notices this, the family or a …
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Time to renovate – money for things that are fun! From utopia to necessity
Almost all professions are confronted with robots and computers It is a fact that a large number of professions will disappear in the future. Not only the simple jobs – also the highly qualified ones! …
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The reality we know
What is truth? The question is as old as mankind itself. How do we know if we are and – what is true? How is human recognition possible? Many attempts were made to answer this …
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Worse than expected! What turkeys have in common with Fukushima
For the scientist Nicholas Naassim Taleb, the idea of predicting the future is insane. We have a “turkey problem.” Drawing conclusions from the past to the future because we cannot do otherwise Just as cheerful …
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Faster than suicide – Stopping suicides with artificial intelligence?
10.000 people take their own lives in Germany every year Worldwide there are even more than 800,000 people a year. The World Health Organization (WHO) mentions this figure in its “World Suicide Report”. Every incredible …
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People with masks – unmasking lies with a simple trick
There are many ways and reasons to lie. Some lies are born out of necessity, others out of image and even when the truth is too rude – even to the point of malicious and …
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Impossible without criticism – Openness
Utopians dream of an open society What is that – openness? We demand openness for many areas of our life: among partners, friends, for corporate structures and as mediators between cultures and peoples. In the …
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People have been dreaming about it since time immemorial. – But we do it every day and don’t notice it
Every day we go on a journey through time It was a wonderful vacation last summer? The sand on your feet, the salty water on your skin, the sun, the sociable evenings with a glass …
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Trusting a person is like being able to navigate the universe
For years they knew each other. Then the shock: Nothing was the same anymore. How could this happen? Is that any way to be wrong? He’s come home. One day, initially how many days in …
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Imagination and mind – a dream couple?
With imagination we go on a journey She knows no limit, no time. Everything is possible in the imagination. We can go anywhere – to distant planets, to a paradise, to a hell, before birth …