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Interview mit Konrad Heil: “Religion und Spiritualität: Meine Ansichten und Gedanken”

By BlogArenaJuly 31, 2014Culture, Interview, Mediaanbindung an gott, erzdioezese berlin, fanatiker, goettlicher machtanspruch, katholischer priester, konrad heil, spirituell entwickelt, suche nach gott, was bedeutet religion

Konrad Heil wurde 1952 geboren und studierte nach einer Bankausbildung Betriebswirtschaft und Wirtschaftspädagogik. Er war viele Jahre im Management tätig und lehrte außerdem als Kommunikationstrainer. Seit 2011 ist er katholischer Priester der Erzdiözese Berlin. Neben der Gemeindeseelsorge ist er auch in der Internetseelsorge aktiv, außerdem engagiert er sich zusätzlich sowohl in der Einzelbegleitung als auch in Gruppenexerzitien. (more…)

Interview with Baban Mohamed: ‘Code-switching’, a research project on Kurdish community in Austria

By BlogArenaJuly 16, 2014Culture, Education, Interview, Mediaaustria, baban mohamed, bicultural acquisition, bilingualism, child code switching, code switching, community, kurdish immigrant, kurdish immigrant children

Baban Mohamed received his Master’s degree in English and American Studies (General/Applied Linguistics) from the University of Salzburg in Austria. He has B.A. degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Sulaimania (the Kurdistan Region of Iraq). Since 2005 Baban is living and studying in the beautiful Mozart’s City of Music, Salzburg. His research interests cover the areas of bilingual/ bicultural acquisition, child code-switching and sociolinguistics. (more…)

Despite its British origins, Americans get a bad rap for using the word ‘soccer’

By Guest PostJune 19, 2014Culture, General, Sportsamericans, biometrics, creating 3d hands, England, football, mannigfaltigkeit, nicholas paulter, soccer, spoof resistant, twentieth century, university of michigan, world war

ANN ARBOR — It’s football, not soccer! Or is it?

Americans use the word soccer to describe the game that just about everybody else in the world calls football, and this duel over semantics enrages purists of the game. (more…)

“Liebe und Romantik”, so denke ich darüber: Kabore Noel (33)

By BlogArenaMay 19, 2014Culture, Interview, Mediaandrew kerr, blinde liebe, dark cloud, dong zhao, energy saving, eu klimapolitik, leben, liebes zitat, liebesgedichte, maximum efficiency, mosquito trap, procedia engineering, romantik, spreading, staubglocke, viviane raddatz, wahre liebe, zika, zukunft

Q. Was ist Liebe? Wie würden Sie es definieren?

Kabore Noel: Erst einmal muss ich ehrlich sagen, die Liebe ist groß und wenn ich die Liebe beschreiben würde, würde ich sagen, dass ist ein Instrument, was uns Menschen verbindet.

Liebe bekommt keine Anerkennung, du kannst sie nicht wiegen ,Liebe hat keine Maße, Bedingungen gibt es nicht in der Liebe man sollte Liebe nehmen wie sie ist, nämlich ohne Maße unberechenbar. (more…)

Simply being called ‘fat’ makes young girls more likely to become obese

By Guest PostMay 12, 2014Culture, Healthanimal diet, daniel romero, entstehen, falten, fat, groenlands eisschild, obese, silvia pineda munoz, stress, ucla

Trying to be thin is like trying to be tall, say UCLA psychologists

Girls who are told by a parent, sibling, friend, classmate or teacher that they are too fat at age 10 are more likely to be obese at age 19, a new study by UCLA psychologists shows.

The study looked at 1,213 African-American girls and 1,166 white girls living in Northern California, Cincinnati and Washington, D.C., 58 percent of whom had been told they were too fat at age 10. All the girls had their height and weight measured at the beginning of the study and again after nine years. (more…)

‘Digging’ for color: The search for Egyptian Blue in ancient reliefs

By Guest PostMay 8, 2014Culture, Scienceancient reliefs, ancient sculpture hall, assurnasirpal palace, color conceptualization, colors in mesopotamia, egyptian blue, long lost pigments

Bright colors are a rare sight in the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) ancient sculpture hall. The gallery’s now-white objects were once brightly painted, their brilliant colors having faded or been destroyed over time. A team of Yale researchers is now working in the museum’s ancient galleries to map one of the long-lost pigments — Egyptian Blue — on two reliefs from ancient Assyria. (more…)

Giving voice to Rwandan genocide survivors

By Guest PostApril 25, 2014Culture, Politicsbiotropica, froschperspektive, fsc zertifikat, innovation farm, javier duran, latest guidelines, mammograms, michigan state university, Rwanda, rwandan genocide, scholar, survivors

As the world remembers the horrific genocide in Rwanda 20 years ago, a Michigan State University scholar is helping survivors tell their stories through a book of poems.

Laura Apol, an award-winning author and associate professor of education at MSU, wrote “Requiem, Rwanda” based on a series of workshops she organized for citizens in Rwanda to promote healing through writing, and her own experiences learning about the tragic events. (more…)

“Simming” a mile in others’ shoes

By Guest PostApril 21, 2014Culture, Generalasif ghazanfar, california, chitchat, death valley, Environment, evidence lacking, evolutionary need, ioannis vlachos, ipek kulahci, klimagase, lemur catta, martin stevens, Mexico City, middle east, protects animals, ringtailed lemurs, small talk, stromexportsaldo, taskin deniz, treibhausgase, university of michigan

Scott Magelssen has had more lives than an accident-prone cat. He’s been a waiter in a logging camp. An anthrax victim. A Mexican migrant trying to cross into the U.S. A slave seeking freedom on the Underground Railroad. An observer during an attack on an Iraqi village.

It’s all in a day’s work for Magelssen, a UW associate professor of drama, who has participated in a variety of interactive simulations for his upcoming book, “Simming” to be published in June by University of Michigan Press. The book explores the impact of simulations and the potential of such immersive environments to promote social change. (more…)

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