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Newton's suitcase

By Federico Di Trocchio Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1998, ISBN 3-593-35976-6. There are tons of academic books of varying quality and level. One of the most interesting and funniest, which is at the same time easy to read, was written by the professor of the history of science at the University of Lecce (Italy), Federico Di Trocchio. As a technical expert, he describes the work of many, from the Orthodox scientists [...]

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Shaman women in Korea

An exhibition at the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology. A phenomenon that is particularly difficult to access for westerners is shamanism, which we usually only assume to exist in Siberia. Occasionally, Native American medicine men, perhaps even African sorcerers are associated with it, and we tend to dismiss shamanism as a form of expression of "primitive" cultures. It is all the more surprising that this archaic [...]