Category: Philately and Science

The future of medical diagnostics is really exciting at the moment. In research, however, we keep coming back to old familiar knowledge, such as using the sense of smell for diagnostics – as the ancient Greeks already did. Even if nowadays doctors don’t sniff us themselves, we can probably rely on the sense of smell Read More …

Now it’s here again, the Christmas season. A time to rest, recover and pause. If it weren’t for the permanent guilty conscience that you should actually do some sport so as not to neglect your physical health. But on these cold days that is even more difficult…. A new study published this month in one Read More …

A possible answer to this question that troubles many parents may be provided by an article published on April 28th in the Journal of Neuroscience by researchers at Standford University.  In their paper, they report that they scanned the brains of 7- to 16-year-olds in a computed tomography scanner while they listened to the voices Read More …

We have just been to Luxembourg, which is also called the land of roses. Therefore, today my scientific contribution to a rose, which, however, is no longer in bloom but is in a painting by Abraham Mignon (a Dutch painter 1640-1679). This yellow rose in the centre of the painting looks very faded, monotonous and Read More …

While searching for the stamp of the month, I came across the adjacent Jersey stamp (issued March 2022). It is part of the Jersey Myths and Legends series. The 88 pence stamp depicts the Belenji, a kind of will-o’-the-wisp that haunts the Jersey marshes. A will-o’-the-wisp (also called a will-o’-the-wisp, sumpflicht, and Ignis fatuus) is Read More …

Now it comes again the Christmas season and with it the Christkindl and in anglo-Saxonian countries also Santa Claus. Santa visits children and brings them presents. However, he not only comes home but also to pediatric clinics. The cover of the month is indeed an FDC commemorating the anniversary of a pediatric clinic in Great Read More …

Even though the pandemic has become quite annoying, it can also be used to examine certain phenomena in sports more closely – such as, for example, the influence of stands filled with fans in one’s own football stadium and whether the ominous home field advantage is based on this. This study was now possible because Read More …

Contrary to the assumptions of many, the modern Europeans are a motley group, which arose from the fusion of distant ethnic groups – that is, through immigration: Even before the end of the Ice Age, African early humans of the type Homo sapiens migrated to Europe, where they encountered the Neanderthal. Apparently there were no Read More …

The accompanying image was previously dismissed as a legend: a polar bear kills a walrus by throwing down a block of stone or ice. This would mean that polar bears use tools to reach their prey, and the use of tools is a sign of intelligence….. And are bears intelligent? Actually something that children have Read More …

Which television film in recent years has left a real lasting impression on me? A crime thriller, a history documentary, a novel adaptation? No, none of the above. It is a Terra-X documentary in which, among other things, the journey of the young stork Borni from Rhineland-Palatinate to its winter quarters in Africa is shown. Read More …