Hermann Bauer's Blog – May 2010 Archive (4)

I'm sitting in the co-driver's seat of an expensive car, looking out into the rain.

On my lap I have the tray of food for me and the driver.

It's nothing fancy but it's seldom nowadays. Especially while at work.



The wrapping tells me it's chicken flavor, but doen't everything tast like chicken? I know it better. Food that cheap is never real meat. It's a mix of soy mushrooms and perhaps a bit of seaweed, with lot of artificial flavors of course.

They grow the stuff… Continue

It is a good thing to be able to solve complex tasks and to know lots of things.

But it is even better to solve complex tasks in a way that less educated people or persons less familiar with the subject can understand and, more importantly, reproduce.



What use is it if you can do something if the next one confronted with the same problem has to solve it again only because your solution was too complicated? Or because he doen't have the technology nessesary to do it your… Continue

Today it is my 100th birthday, time to share something important with you.

For all my life tea was something I really enjoyed.

One day it was just the cheap teabag with not-so-hot water, the next day carefully chosen herbs with perfectly tempered spring water.

Even when out in the woods, trekking or camping I had always a small kettle with me.



Why was that? You might ask.

Well, the act of preparing what you eat or drink is something that gives you a deeper connection… Continue

I read a case study about a project to preserve traditional ethnoveterinary medicine knowledge and use it to help farmers.
But where I see it as a good thing for the farmers today, what I find more important is the fact that this way the knowledge is not forgotten and can, in the future, potentially be used to save people if not peoples.

Some epidemics of the past wohld have been less severe with the knowledge lost by witchhunting and the loss of medical knowledge it lead to.