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Audiostretto 59/4/24 English

Hans-Jörg Stark

Audiostretto 59/4/24 is a daily podcast with an encouraging impulse for the day. Because many people today have little time in a day with a full agenda, this input is a maximum of 59 seconds long. So it"s analogous to a ristretto: short, strong and invigorating. 59 seconds for 24 hours!

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00:01:22

Love

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/09/10

There are certain words or things in life that are somehow very clear. A loaf of bread or an item of clothing - you know exactly what they are talking about. But then there are also terms or realities where this is not so readily the case and yet they are omnipresent and actually vital to our survival. Let me take the example of love. Love as such can be viewed and treated in an excellent philosophical way. But that still leaves us uninvolved. Or it becomes very concrete: you experience it through

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00:01:17

Lettering

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/09/09

Certain well-known products do not simply write their product names in a standard font, but in their very own. In other words, they do not use the usual standard fonts, but have their very own way of writing the alphabet and numbers. That is quite elaborate and remarkable. As this font is presumably also protected by law and cannot be used just like that, it is automatically linked to this product or product family for us. Suppose I saw a competitor's product with such a font - it would be like

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00:01:12

Fountain

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/09/08

Do you know this? You're hiking in summer and pass through a village, it's hot, you're thirsty from hiking and the heat and then you find a village fountain. How such a sight suddenly feels good and you look forward to one or probably several sips of cool water to quench your thirst and maybe even fill up the empty bottle you brought with you. However, I have also seen a sign at the fountain saying ‘No drinking water’. What a disappointment then. You would be so close to the thirst

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00:01:20

Degrees of freedom

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/09/07

The ceiling light at our home was broken. The lights used were attached to a double cable so that they could be aligned with a certain degree of manoeuvrability to illuminate the part of the room that we wanted to be bright. But they only had limited manoeuvrability. In our three-dimensional space, we have three degrees of freedom, i.e. directions that we can adjust. If we have unrestricted freedom in these three degrees, every possible point can be reached from the current one. But that requires

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00:01:19

Rubber ball

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/09/06

As children we loved playing with rubber balls. These are balls made of hard rubber that bounce back with almost the same energy when they hit a resistance. So you can simply drop them on the floor and they bounce back to almost the same height. Only the force of gravity takes a certain amount of energy away from them, so that it is not quite enough for a complete return. However, they also have the property that if you don't control them or drop them unintentionally, they go their own way and

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00:01:20

Exaggerated

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/09/05

I know a middle-aged woman who wears make-up that is relatively conspicuous. That in itself is not unusual. But she has applied the lipstick so thickly that it looks unnatural and exaggerated to me. In other words, she almost pretends to have a lip thickness with the strong red colour that isn't there. In my incompetent opinion, I would say that she is exaggerating. I don't know whether there are reasons why she's doing this or whether it's just me who notices it. You can also

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00:01:21

Lightning

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/09/04

There are lightning maps that show lightning activity. They are used to visualise the distribution and frequency of lightning in a particular region and during a particular period. One of the many uses of this information is by energy supply companies: they use lightning maps to monitor the risk of lightning strikes to their networks, as lightning can cause power outages. To collect this information, an antenna network is needed to capture the electromagnetic waves and process them into the

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00:01:24

Bell

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/09/03

In our country, church bells still ring frequently and regularly. To the delight of some, to the annoyance of others. Some chime only twice an hour, others only on certain occasions such as a funeral or in the evening, and still others every quarter of an hour. The chime was originally a call to prayer for the praying monks and people and I think also a kind of public clock when wristwatches were not yet widespread. And those who had committed themselves to prayer and wanted to do so were glad of

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00:01:28

Valid

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/09/02

In sport, there are restrictions for a performance to count as a score. In the long jump, a certain mark must not be exceeded. The distance of the jump is measured from the mark to the nearest footprint in the sand. If a competitor jumps before the mark, this additional distance is not taken into account and she loses valuable distance in the competition. With modern measuring methods, it would be perfectly possible to determine the exact take-off and the exact place of landing and therefore the

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00:01:32

Enthusiasm

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/09/01

Are you enthusiastic about something? For what? Sport or literature or relationships or work, a hobby, music or an instrument or the success of others, perhaps your children? In German, the word "Geist" is in the verb and I interpret it like this: suddenly another spirit comes into play. You may notice this yourself: there is suddenly more life, more enthusiasm, commitment, passion, willingness to invest, be it time or money, more emotions etc. I think it's a privilege to have a life

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00:01:17

Beach towel

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/08/31

When you go to the seaside for a beach holiday, you certainly enjoy lying on the beach, enjoying the waves, the sea, the view, etc. You don't always have a deckchair, so you use a beach towel that you lay down on the sand to sit or lie on. The towel lets you feel the sand almost directly, but not quite, and gives you a thin layer that helps prevent you from being covered in sand that sticks to your skin because of sweat or sun cream. So with relatively little, a great convenience. And you can

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00:01:20

Design

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/08/30

Are you a visual person? If so, you may respond more than others to outward appearances and perhaps see details or things that others don't notice. Design is therefore not unimportant when selling products. For me, I allow myself to be influenced by appearance when making a decision. Be it when choosing products or eating out, etc. Design can therefore have a significant influence on the decision to buy - on the one hand, the design is an expression of the quality of the product, but on the

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00:01:16

Attention

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/08/29

I sometimes have smudges or splashes on my computer monitor. The fact is, however, that if there is important information behind it, it is partially covered by the smudges - so I may not always recognise or confuse letters straight away. That's one thing: the spots obscure what I should be able to see or cloud my vision, so to speak. But the other thing is that they also draw attention to themselves. If a larger area on the monitor is the same, these spots are particularly noticeable. Both

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00:01:09

Shark tank

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/08/28

The metaphorical term "shark tank" is used as a figure of speech to describe an environment characterised by fierce competition, conflict and ruthless behaviour. It often refers to work environments or situations in which everyone is trying to get ahead at the expense of others. However, this is not necessarily the case, because sharks do not fight each other - partly out of fear of being seriously injured themselves. They are more like dogs, which bark but don't bite. The only

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00:01:21

Delirium

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/08/27

Do you know what delirium is? My spontaneous reaction: it comes from taking drugs and puts the person who consumes drugs in a special state that is far removed from reality. Wrong. I looked it up and read: "Delirium refers to a sudden dysfunction of the brain. It is not a mental but a physical event with a disturbance of consciousness. Acute delirium is an emergency situation that requires intensive medical treatment as quickly as possible because it can be life-threatening. Anyone can develop

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00:01:26

Solo

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/08/26

In the world of music, a soloist is someone who plays their own part within a group, often very demanding, and so he or she stands out. They are the well-known, great musicians in these ensembles and receive special attention. In contrast to the solo, there is the com. Com as in communication or communion and perhaps even composer. It is the commonality that is in the foreground here: the community. The composer who writes the works of art, songs, songs for everyone. And there may also be room for

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00:01:22

Brackets

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/08/25

In mathematics, the individual operators are not always of equal value when performing calculations. There is a mnemonic device that says: "Dot before dash". This means that in a calculation with several operations, divisions and multiplications are to be performed first, and only then subtractions or additions. However, it may be that you still want to perform a subtraction or addition first, and then the multiplication or division. In this case, brackets help. They take precedence over

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00:01:23

Cap

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/08/24

Many of us wear a hat in winter. Its primary purpose is to insulate and prevent heat loss, thereby preventing or reducing the risk of freezing. But sometimes it is just a fashion accessory. In certain cultures it is a must: a rapper without a cap is probably unthinkable. Or in sport, it sometimes helps to absorb sweat and protect against the sun. In the catering trade it is used for hygiene, in certain religious contexts it is a must out of respect and for some peoples it is part of traditional

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00:01:22

Hot

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/08/23

Nobody likes to touch a hot potato, but sometimes it has to be done. I'll take the Pope as an example. There are people who don't care about him, don't take him seriously or see him as an old relic, or are annoyed by all the pomp, consider him completely superfluous, even harmful to the development of the church and in dealing with specific issues, etc. Others almost worship him like God himself. Who is right? All of them? None of them? In this case, I think it helps to go back in

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00:01:21

Sharpened

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/08/22

When I started school as a child, we drew and wrote with coloured pencils and pencils. We kept these pencils in pencil boxes or more or less sorted in our pencil cases. To be able to use the pencils well and draw fine lines or write legibly, they had to be sharpened. We had a sharpener for this and it was a manual task to sharpen the pencils. This meant that the tip had to be ground down with a sharp blade so that more of the lead inside the pencil was exposed. If the lead was broken inside –

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