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Dear Anylength! Many thanks for Your regardworthy arguments. I am glad to see that i do not write words in a desert sand. I need intellectual sparring partners who helps me to see the matters from another point of view. I have also the impression that Mr. Dartnell wrote "The Knowledge" und...

Hello Anylength! Many thanks for Your explanation and Your excellent translation! Now i get the point of Your posting and i agree that there should be something like an "livestock-saving-task-force" in case of catastrophes! But how is it possible to implement something like this? The main ...

Dear Anylength, feel very welcome by heart in our little forum! It is very necessary to debate how nearly 8.000.000.000 humans should exist in a future world together with domesticated and wild animals. I am shure You have important ideas about it. Because i´m german, my english is not so good to ge...

Many Thanks to You, Tom, for this REALLY BIG EFFORT You made to take the membership of this forum under a review and try to reactivate engaged peoples! The weak response on Your effort should be seen as a chance: We have it now in our hands where to spread the information about this forum and get th...

This report shows the drama of very young pregnant girls in Guatemala, which were married beginning at age of eleven and gave birth between age 12 until 17: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/08/opinion/sunday/exposures-child-bride-mother-stephanie-sinclair.html?_r=0 Too early wedding and mo...

"Human Rights Watch" presents a study about the most big scandal of the syrian refugee crisis: Millions of syrian children don´t have the possibility to go to school. Instead many of them have to go to work to support their families. Eleven year old boys are working 12 hours every day in t...

"Welome to the Refugee Phrasebook! We are building an open collection of useful words and phrases for refugees who just arrived. The Refugee Phrasebook is a multilingual tool that provides basic useful vocabulary related to the most common immidiate needs.": http://www.refugeephrasebook.de...

This is a very important article,
pointing at the necessarity to finance qualification and integration of refugees by deficit spending:

http://www.flassbeck-economics.de/refug ... liticians/

Because of the glorious victory of online-lexica like wikipedia, the running publishing of printed encyclopedias have been cancelled. The very expensive authorship of best scientists, of the responsible compilation and verification is not economical competitive with "free" online-lexica. B...

I hope it will not disturb if i document here a telepolis-article in german language. It is too complex for me to translate the main content into english. It shows how german scientific institutes like the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft are involved into the evolution of unmanned, autonomous weapons like d...