Off Topic 2020-07-03

TV Show Lie to Me is an American crime drama television series. It originally ran on the Fox network from January 21, 2009, to January 31, 2011. In the show, Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) and his colleagues in The Lightman Group accept assignments from third parties (commonly local and Read More

Vocabulary 2020-07-03

how to build a city for an ageing populationaudio filegetting older and older mind:voluntary worktraffic helpermeaning in lifemy life makes sense nowsecond work lifeboth sides benefit of this project body:decreased the steps in the buildingsleads to a better communicationnow they can connect, before they couldn’thappiness increased a lack of workers Read More

British TV Shows

Beginners Sarah & Duck (link) Katie Morag (Scottish Accent) (link) Nature Shows with David Attenborough (Frozen Planet, Planet Earth, …) Intermediate Cooking Shows Jamie Oliver (link) Nigella Lawson (link) Fun The Office (UK) (link) The Inbetweeners (link) Others Informer (many accents) (link) Sherlock (link) Dr Who (link)

Off Topic 2020-06-26

Books Future Shock is a 1970 book by the futurist Alvin Toffler, in which the author defines the term „future shock“ as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies. The shortest definition for the term in the book is a personal perception of „too much change in too Read More

Vocabulary 2020-06-26

Concepts are similarEssayScientific FactsYour statusCandid Camera – Verstehen Sie Spaß – TV ShowTwinsMirrorsconfusedmake belieftheatreplaysconsumertacticsget back to normalback to old habitsback to old behaviourdo something for ourselvesget rid of plastic productsuse less plastic bags main topicmain thesis to jump into supportto add somethingI highly recommend this articleApril –> Maycurrentplay it downbig Read More

Off Topic 2020-06-19

Books Rutger BregmanUtopia for Realists:And How We Can Get There GÖTZ W. WERNEREinkommen für alleBedingungsloses Grundeinkommen – die Zeit ist reif Other Topics Those who fall asleep in a democracymight wake up in a dictatorship Switzerland’s voters reject basic income planhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36454060 Coronavirus: Spain set for basic income to ease crisis Read More

Vocabulary 2020-06-19

Affect vs Effect https://7esl.com/affect-vs-effect/ affective vs effective https://7esl.com/affective-vs-effective/ Gerundium https://7esl.com/gerunds/ Wild Collection corporationbasic incomepyramid schemepovertyhead start, lead, advantage/advance clerk (Sachbearbeiter) middle class financesthe middle and low class catch up with you later surgery diet, nutrition egoisticself centered privatizing the social sector initiatives effectiveefficiency laws money was burned adequate paymentreasonable paymentappropriate Read More

Off Topic 2020-06-12

Canary Test and its origin Technical viewhttps://dzone.com/articles/canary-tests#:~:text=Canary%20Tests%20are%20minimal%20tests,the%20other%20tests%20are%20red. Originhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_species#:~:text=The%20idea%20of%20placing%20a,toxic%20gases%2C%20primarily%20carbon%20monoxide. There are countless examples of environmental effects on animals that later manifested in humans. The classic example is the „canary in the coal mine„. The idea of placing a canary or other warm blooded animal in a mine to detect carbon monoxide was first proposed by John Scott Haldane, Read More

Vocabulary 2020-06-12

basic needs homogeneous curious report card / school report main hall / entrance her motivation is close to zero digitized digitalized loyal showing off downtown / city centre opportunities law ecological footprint co2 footprint carbon dioxide wardrobe value added tax = vat organic milk consumer behavior strengthen / to support Read More

Off Topic 2020-06-05

The Extra Mile Matthew 5:41 In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. The World English Bible translates the passage as:Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Scholarly versions of this Read More