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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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00:01:12

Pipette

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/27

Pipettes are very useful for dosing liquid medicines or other substances in the laboratory, or sometimes for cooking and baking at home, because they allow you to dose the desired liquid drop by drop. There is usually a squeezable rubber at the end of the pipette, which is used to create a small vacuum to draw up the liquid. The same rubber is then squeezed again to dispense when the pipette is no longer in the liquid. The rubber therefore ensures that the pipette can be both filled and emptied

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00:01:14

Enlightened

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/26

Since the Enlightenment, the intellect has been given enormous importance in the Western world. The rule is: if it is not conceivable, it does not exist. What the mind cannot explain rationally should always be treated with caution or even rejection. This may - logically - be understandable from an intellectual point of view. But it is not right. It is only a partial truth. The mind is indeed a very good and important tool for our judgements, but if we rely solely on the mind, we become

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00:01:19

Sequence

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/25

As the saying goes, 'All's well that ends well'. But all is not always well before the happy ending. There are hurts, disappointments, losses, fears and other things that we often find difficult to bear or cope with. Thank God, there are also joys, moments of happiness, undeserved grace and many positive things. And let's face it, we don't live with an attitude that the probability of good and bad things happening in our lives is 50/50. We expect and even count on the good, and the rest are

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00:01:11

More

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/24

It's winter, so a lot of ski sports are back in action. There are the so-called downhill races. I am always impressed when I see the speed at which these athletes go. Some of them are going faster than the speed limit on the motorway. But the athletes don't have a car body around them to protect them, they just race down the slopes. How dangerous, how risky, how perhaps even reckless. Unfortunately, from time to time, this leads to serious accidents, sometimes resulting in death or permanent

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00:01:12

Multicoloured

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/23

Some biscuits are made from more than one type of dough, and this is reflected in their different colours. There may be a light centre and a darker outer edge. I used to think that both parts had to be cut out or moulded separately and then each individual cookie had to be assembled separately. That impressed me and I thought, what an effort, what patience on the part of the person doing it! Later I read that, as in the example above, an inner light dough roll is covered with a dark dough roll and

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00:01:14

Oblivion

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/22

In a review of the year, the national television station presented various events, social highs and lows, as well as local, national and global events in a short retrospective. In addition to political events, natural disasters and curiosities, sporting highlights were also covered. And there were individual athletes or coaches who were particularly praised and highlighted. One coach, for example, was named coach of the tournament at a world championship by the global magazine xy. What made

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00:01:15

Miraculous

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/21

We humans and all of creation are subject to the dimension of time. That is why we know the daily routine of everyday life. Sometimes boring because it's always the same, sometimes relieving because it's always the same. And yet, in all this routine, we all too quickly forget that every moment, however mundane, even if it is a moment in a daily ritual such as brushing our teeth, is unique. It has never happened before and will never happen again. This is the miracle of repetition - just as there is

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00:01:14

Card game

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/20

Here in Switzerland we have an almost national card game called Jassen. Usually two people play against each other. The players try to score as many points as possible in order to be the first to reach the final score. Each player only sees their own cards and does not know what their opponent or partner has. It sometimes happens that you say 'if I'd known what else you had in your hand, I'd have played differently', or you get annoyed and ask 'why didn't you play this or that? Much is based on

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00:01:11

Radiator Mascot

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/19

A radiator grille is a distinctive feature of many car manufacturers. It was originally attached to the bonnet. Famous grilles include the Mercedes star and Rolls-Royce's Spirit of Ecstasy. Did you know that the Mercedes star is the most sought-after replacement part because it is so often stolen? On a Bentley there is no star but a flying B. For safety reasons fixed figures were banned in Germany in 1959. Assuming you had your own brand or were such a vehicle, which symbol would you choose as a

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00:01:18

Rope

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/18

A rope can be not only very practical, but also essential in certain situations. I'm thinking of a mountain tour where the rope holds the group together and if someone slips, the others can hold him and save him from death thanks to the rope. However, depending on the condition of the rope, this may not always be possible without injury. You may have rubbed your hands on a rope because the rope went through your hands too quickly, creating heat and causing burns or even tearing off chunks of skin

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00:01:13

Ash pan

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/17

As children, we regularly visited relatives in the former GDR. As there was no central heating, we heated the house in an oven. It was great for me to put wood in the stove, light it and watch and enjoy the warmth for hours. And there was an ash pan in the stove. It was a drawer under the grate where the wood would pile up and burn. The burnt wood fell into this box as ash and it had to be emptied regularly. There were special ash bins for this, just as we collect garbage separately today. If the

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00:01:15

Kick

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/16

Are you a morning grump, or the opposite, whose energy in the morning makes everyone around you grumpy because they can't keep up with you? Many people turn to coffee or espresso as an energy boost when they feel generally tired or exhausted. The latter in particular is said to help revive tired spirits. Apart from the fact that an espresso tastes delicious, depending on the type of bean and roast, it has a revitalising effect. Mentally, at least. Drinking an espresso is also a way of saying: I

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00:01:14

Gutter

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/15

There is a gutter in front of our front door to allow rainwater to drain away. This prevents the water from backing up and entering the house during heavy rainfall. There is a grate above this gutter. This is designed to let the water through very well, but is so narrow that you can walk on it without getting your shoe caught, not even small children's shoes. The idea is to allow some water to pass through while keeping the rest out. This is the idea of a sieve or a grid. In our society, we also

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00:01:14

Outfit

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/14

They say ‘clothes make the man’. And this is not always meant in a positive - or negative - way. Clothes make the man: you can recognise someone's position or social status by their appearance. In certain situations, this may be inappropriate - if someone wants to stand out from everyone in an arrogant way. In others, it is very helpful: in a chaotic situation in the event of an accident or major incident, you are happy if you can quickly recognise the paramedics who can help. And in our everyday

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00:01:13

Snow

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/13

In winter, snow falls instead of rain at higher altitudes. What makes some people happy is a pain for others, as large amounts of snow make certain areas inaccessible. Especially in the snowy regions, people have told me that they wait for the snow to melt in spring so that the snow is finally gone. This is hard to imagine for the people of the lower regions. But don't forget: Thank God there is still snow - it is an important prerequisite for the fertility of spring. When the snow melts in spring,

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00:01:15

Steps

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/12

When you learn a new physical activity, you usually learn it gradually, growing into it, until you have mastered it or you can do it intuitively. This could be a new way of swimming, a new technique for jogging, or something as mundane as brushing your teeth or closing the door with your untrained hand. It often takes a lot of practice and patience. Step by step, they say. But step by step is unpopular in today's fast-paced world. We often prefer to pay for something and then have it. I've had

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00:01:21

Infinity

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/11

In our written language, the symbol for infinity is an 8 rotated by 90 degrees, probably because this symbol could theoretically be drawn infinitely often without beginning or end. It has no beginning and no end - unlike a 5 or a 1 or a 7. But I find the word 'infinite' more exciting. I don't know of any alternative term in the German-speaking world. Infinite actually expresses the complement of finite, so it needs its opposite. For example, there is light and its complement dark, or near and far

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00:01:19

Demarcation

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/10

From time to time I have to create slides for presentations or write documents that contain user manuals or other documentation. And I often support these with graphics that are as descriptive as possible. I have a lot of control over the shape, colour, fill, etc. of the graphics. Among other things, I can decide whether to draw a border and, if so, how. A border often supports the message and meaning of the element in question, because it emphasises the difference between it and other elements

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00:01:17

Inwardly

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/09

From time to time I ask myself: how would I feel if I lived in another place in the world or at another time? Would I even be able to live there, to survive? I think of slums or war zones. I live in such a materially and politically stable environment - what have I done to deserve it? Why me? Would I be the same and as grateful or balanced or confident in a different situation? I do not know. But I observe that there are people who are happy in very difficult and in optimal environments and others

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00:01:14

Luminaire

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2025/01/08

A light source shines in all directions without being covered. As an example, the sun is ideal for radiating its light in all directions. It can only do this because it has this power of its own. A candle in our house or a lamp can shine in all directions, but not everywhere. They are blocked by themselves: the wick by the candle it carries, and the lamp by the socket it is plugged into. So anything that does not radiate completely from itself is obviously limited in at least one direction - that

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