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Lena M Holmberg: Out Biking

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The greatest adventure this summer was to travel to the island Ven. Between Sweden and Denmark, and then experience its beauty by going around it by bike. You don't need your own bike, since there are plenty to rent. In all kinds of shapes and sizes, but only one colour. From Skåne July 2015. A must when visiting Ven is to go to the Tycho Brahe museum. 1546 – 1601) was a genuine product of the Renaissance. You could say that he was one of the first to start a research institute, since he employed lots of...

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Lena M Holmberg: Marx Was Right

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Lots of Greece/Germany jokes are published on the web right now, one of them an old Monty Python clip. It's the sketch where Greece and Germany compete in football (soccer) having philosophers as players. According to Washington Post's. It can be used to explain the differences in opinion and actions between the two countries, and he summaries the clip like this (spoiler alert! When I was in Berlin in June, I went to the Humboldt University. In the lobby is a quote from former student Karl Marx:. To Berl...

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Lena M Holmberg: Airlift vs Luftbrücke

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Logistics have seldom been more important than during the Berlin Blockade. 1 April 1948 – 12 May 1949. Aptly described in the book Armageddon. The insight that a plane not being able to land should return to base immediately instead of hovering over Tegel, Tempelhof or Gatow was crucial in establishing a flow of supplies. A procedure established when it was clear that the blockade would last more than the anticipated three weeks and by the operation commander Maj. Gen. William H. Tunner. The German word ...

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Lena M Holmberg: 2014/09

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A Time For Everything. I go to the local library a lot. Last Saturday a book in a display caught my eye: "Cottage Dreams" (" Torpardrömmar. The very last chapter is about time and how everything changes, but also returns. Although I'm not a Christian, I very much appreciated the quote from Ecclesiastes 3. There is a time for everything,. And a season for every activity under the heavens:. A time to be born and a time to die,. A time to plant and a time to uproot,. A time to kill and a time to heal,.

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Lena M Holmberg: Stellar Evolution

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Born a bookworm, I soon started to look through my grandparents' bookcase during the summer holidays. One of my favourites was a book called "Flickan och stjärnan" (The Girl and the Star) by the Swedish author Per Westerlund. In 2009 the novel Q and A. Was turned into the surprise smash hit movie Slumdog Millionaire. Apparently, they were paid less than the child actors in The Kite Runner. Set in Afghanistan. One of these actors, Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada, is now living alone in Sweden. Is on their way at l...

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Lena M Holmberg: Killing Compassion

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In a rather recent podcast episode of Philosophy Bites. Harvard philosopher Christine Korsgaard. Kant derived a prohibition against cruelty to animals as a violation of a duty in relation to oneself. According to him, man has the imperfect duty to strengthen the feeling of compassion, since this feeling promotes morality in relation to other human beings. Since cruelty to animals deadens the feeling of compassion, man is obliged not to treat animals brutally. Kant's Formula of Humanity. From Slug War 2015.

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Lena M Holmberg: 2014/10

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I saw you at the Central Station today. In your hoodie. Oblivious of the crowd. Enchanted, not by a broccoli forest. But by your smartphone. My brain saw you before my eyes did and it gently steered me to the right to avoid a collision. Although my heart missed a beat, my step didn't falter and I continued to Moderna Museet. I watched the exhibitions, sculpture after sculpture. I try to not stay in the moment. I suppose we' humans are good at not talking about the elephant in the room. I've just finished...

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Lena M Holmberg: 2014/11

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Today I went to Hasselblad Center to have a look at the Ishiuchi Miyako exhibition " The Fabric of Photography. I very much liked her illustration of time as wrinkled hands. Some day I'll do a black-and-white series too. I couldn't resist browsing through the books in the souvenir shop. Because of the celebration of the birth of Tove Jansson 100 years ago. There was a section with books written and/or illustrated by her. A thin and pale hardcover caught my eye: The Hunting of the Snark. After a month of ...