I’ve bought a “Bavaria Ticket Single”1 online. Afterwards, I was asked to take part in a little survey. Having time and being in a friendly mood, I agreed. But then, this rather weird questions pops up:
Translation:
Are you traveling with the Bavaria Ticket Single alone or with several people?
alone
group of two
group of three
group [...]
Being just a ordinary person, I sadly don’t look deep into the legal foundations of life.1 Thus, I’ve only recently found out from a blog post on Astrodicticum simplex that Article 131, paragraph 2 of the Bavarian Constitution contains these paramount educational goals:
The paramount educational goals are reverence for God, respect for religious [...]
…has now been solved:
(By Bizarro; found at Pharyngula the other day.)
I’m quite happy that I didn’t yet have to discuss with students the creationst crap the cartoon makes fun of.
Sometimes, leafing through old books yields little gems.
The hydraulic processes of groundwater in nature cause great difficulties for calculations. To date, the geologist usually tends to rely on imagination [impression? understanding? concept? How the hell do you translate „Anschauung“?] only, and to disregard calculations completely. The mathematically trained engineer, on the other hand, often lacks [...]
When working on the local geology, I’m constantly reminded that in the former German Democratic Republic, topographic and geological maps were classified material.
Most of the Lithofacies Map of the Quaternary 1:50000 (LKQ50) and the Hydrogeological Map 1:50000 (HK50) were ranked confidental („VD – Vertrauliche Dienstsache“, literally “confidential offical matter”), the rest was even secret1 („VVS [...]
Florian Jenn – Research assisstant at the Department of Environmental Geology of the BTU Cottbus.
Interest besides geology and science in general: various nonsense one encounters in life, and cooking, especially Thai.
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