Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Sunday, September 13, 2015

German Countryside Versus US

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From a Vox/Grist piece on high speed rail: "On Amtrak’s Northeast corridor route, you can spend seven hours traveling from Boston to...
Friday, July 03, 2015

Greeks Work Harder Than Germans

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The Wonkblog has 15 charts showing differences between Greece and Germany.  The fact in the title is the most surprising, closely followed ...
Monday, May 25, 2015

Notable Bureaucrats: Jager and Lauter

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Harald Jager and Gerald Lauter deserve places in the bureaucrats hall of fame.  Their roles are described in The Collapse by Mary Elise Sa...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

Bureaucrats and MLKing: the Collapse

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Reading " The Collapse" , a very good narrative description of the events leading up to the demise of the Berlin Wall.  Having liv...
Sunday, June 02, 2013

The End of the "Healthy Immigrant" Paradox?

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The Times Saturday had a report on the results of a new German census which cuts the German population.  Germany had thought they had a hand...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Crunch[ie] Dairy the Demeter Way

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This article at Treehugger describes a German dairy farm (mostly) which adheres to Demeter standards.  Amusing throughout, particularly this...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Herr Roesler and the German Melting Pot

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Here's his wikipedia bio , of Vietnamese ancestry, he's a German politician, currently a cabinet minister, which blew my mind when I...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Germans, Bless Them

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Watched The Last Station over the weekend--starring Mirren and Plummer.  It's apparently reasonably accurate depiction of Tolstoy's...