Links+Dings aus der Kalenderwoche 2019/17

Immer am Wochenende (Bleiben wir realistisch: soweit möglich.) gibt es hier einen Sammelpost mit allem, was es nicht zu einem eigenen Artikel gebracht hat. Das ist mal mehr, mal weniger. Mal gucken, wie’s klappt.

Martin Schulz (SPD) – Jung & Naiv: Folge 408

Wir sind zurück im Bundestag und treffen Martin Schulz. Martin sitzt seit Herbst 2017 als Abgeordneter im Parlament und ist Teil der SPD-Fraktion. Seiner Partei ist er 1975 als 19-Jähriger beigetreten. 1987 wurde er Bürgermeister von Würselen, 1994 wurde Martin zusätzlich Abgeordneter im Europaparlament, dessen Präsident er 2012 wurde bis er 2017 ausschied um in die deutsche Bundespolitik zu wechseln. Bei der Bundestagswahl 2017 war er der Kanzlerkandidat der SPD. Nach nur einem Jahr im Amt gab er 2018 den Parteivorsitz mit der Bildung einer erneuten großen Koalition wieder ab. Mit Martin geht’s um den Vergleich zwischen Bundestag und Europaparlament: Vermisst er Brüssel? Martin erzählt, wie er politisiert wurde, wann sein politisches Engagement anfing, warum er SPD-Mitglied wurde und was seine Mutter damit zu tun hatte. Martin redet über Willy Brandt und was er zur heutigen Ost- und Außenpolitik sagen würde. Es geht um deutsche Waffenexporte an Diktaturen, das Ungleichgewicht in Europa, unsere Wirtschaftspolitik, Deutschlands Dominanz, Eurobonds und Martins Ziel von den „Vereinigten Staaten von Europa“ im Jahr 2025. Martin blickt auf seinen ungeraden Lebensweg zurück, spricht über seinen Alkoholismus und seine Art mit der Basis in Kontakt zu bleiben: Was ist der „Nachbarschaftstest“? Es geht um das Kohlekraftwerk in Martins Heimat und den Kohleausstieg 2038: Unterstützt er die Forderungen der Schülerproteste? Er schlägt vor, wie die europäische Handelspolitik zum Klimaschutz eingesetzt werden kann. Zum Schluss geht’s um Martins Wahlkampf als Kanzlerkandidat: Was hat er über politische Berater gelernt? Warum hat er nicht auf seinen „Instinkt“ gehört? Wo hat er „Hofberichterstattung“ für Angela Merkel in den Medien erlebt? Und warum schätzt er ausgerechnet Steffen Seibert?

Game of Thrones Sigil Collection | Custom Shop | Fender

Watch as Principal Master Builder Ron Thorn and Game of Thrones creator and show runner D.B. Weiss talk through the Fender Custom Shop Game of Thrones Sigil Collection. Featuring a Game of ThronesTM House Stark, Telecaster ® a Games of ThronesTM House Lannister, Jaguar ® and a Game of ThronesTM House Targaryen, Stratocaster ®. This limited-edition series is hand-built to order in the Fender Custom Shop. Performers: Nuno Bettencourt, Ramin Djawadi, Scott Ian, Tom Morello, and Dan Weiss

Who Paid for Your Coachella Ticket?

Step 1: Have sex with a guy. Step 2: Go to Coachella.

Falcon Heavy Launch Close Up

Explanation: Twenty seven Merlin rocket engines are firing in this close-up of the launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket. Derived from three Falcon 9 first stage rockets with nine Merlin rocket engines each, the Falcon Heavy left NASA’s Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A on April 11. This second launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket carried the Arabsat 6A communications satellite to space. In February of 2018, the first Falcon Heavy launch carried Starman and a Tesla Roadster. Designed to be reusable, both booster stages and the central core returned safely to planet Earth, the boosters to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station landing zones. The core stage landed off shore on autonomous spaceport drone ship Of Course I Still Love You.

xkcd: Text Entry

I like to think that somewhere out there, there’s someone whose personal quest is lobbying TV providers to add an option to switch their on-screen keyboards to Dvorak.

Titel: Text Entry. Autor: Randall Munroe. Lizenz: CC BY-NC 2.5. Danke!

“RUN DANIEL!” Crocodile Attacks Fisherman and Steals His Fish

Huge Crocodile Attacks Fisherman and steals his Barramundi

(via https://boingboing.net/2019/04/23/fellow-catches-big-fish-that-i.html)

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Spiral Aurora over Icelandic Divide

Explanation: Admire the beauty but fear the beast. The beauty is the aurora overhead, here taking the form of great green spiral, seen between picturesque clouds with the bright Moon to the side and stars in the background. The beast is the wave of charged particles that creates the aurora but might, one day, impair civilization. In 1859, following notable auroras seen all across the globe, a pulse of charged particles from a coronal mass ejection (CME) associated with a solar flare impacted Earth’s magnetosphere so forcefully that they created the Carrington Event. A relatively direct path between the Sun and the Earth might have been cleared by a preceding CME. What is sure is that the Carrington Event compressed the Earth’s magnetic field so violently that currents were created in telegraph wires so great that many wires sparked and gave telegraph operators shocks. Were a Carrington-class event to impact the Earth today, speculation holds that damage might occur to global power grids and electronics on a scale never yet experienced. The featured aurora was imaged in 2016 over Thingvallavatn Lake in Iceland, a lake that partly fills a fault that divides Earth’s large Eurasian and North American tectonic plates.

Cabin Pressure

A safety and regulations obsessive is forced to revaluate things when a routine flight runs into difficulties.

See Animals

Earth Day 2019.

Titan of terror: the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft – Silvia Moreno-García

Arcane books of forbidden lore, disturbing secrets in the family bloodline, and terrors so unspeakable the very thought of them might drive you mad. These have become standard elements in modern horror stories. But they were largely popularized by a single author: H.P. Lovecraft, whose name has become synonymous with the terror he inspired. Silvia Moreno-García dissects the “Lovecraftian” legacy.

(via https://www.mindsdelight.de/2019/04/eine-kurze-animation-ueber-den-terror-von-h-p-lovecraft/)

Sorry About Your Wife

Buttercup

As Maggie struggles with her mother’s death, a surprise visitor helps her find joy again.

SOUL FLYERS : THE FIRST SECOND

Fred Frugen and Vince Reffet, the two faces of a super-famous team, achieve exploits in flight that defy the imagination. In this interview with both of them, they firstly explain the extreme aspect of base jumping, before revealing two quite different personalities. But as soon as they talk about their relationship, we discover a sense of total fusion: synchronicity, trust, commitment, fun and danger… In the Soul Flyers duo, everything brings them together.

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