Kategorie: Allgemein

Reading Progress.

[...] in which the marketing department informs them that 82 percent of readers lost interest in their memoir on page 272. And if they want to be published in the future, whatever happens on that page should never be repeated.

Francine Prose: They’re Watching You Read

WTV.

Ein Verkehrsverbund ist ein rechtlicher und organisatorischer Zusammenschluss von Gebietskörperschaften zur gemeinsamen und abgestimmten Durchführung des öffentlichen Personennahverkehrs (ÖPNV).

Wikipedia: Verkehrsverbund

Hoher Norden.

Norwegians love per capita statistics, for the simple reason that many indicators when divided by a small population will make Norway rank relatively high.

Johan Galtung: A Structural Theory of Aggression (1964)

Not if everyone would, but does.

A chip's been implanted in your left arm. Don't worry, these days everyone's got one.

Cixin Liu: The Dark Forest

How about the Platonic heaven?

If I can save a distant, beautiful world that I have fallen in love with, then my life has not been wasted.

Cixin Liu: The Three-Body Problem