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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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00:01:16

Cleaning

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/07/12

For spectacle wearers, it happens from time to time that the lenses get dirty for whatever reason. This is always annoying because it somehow impairs vision. I don't see any worse because of it, so of course it doesn't affect the cut of the lenses and therefore the dioptres or the corneal curvature correction - but it still disturbs my vision. It's like itching after an insect bite and constantly wanting to scratch. It's the same here: I try to ignore it or look past it or move my

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00:01:16

Associated

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/07/11

There used to be a brand in Switzerland that produced yoghurt and sold it in a very special jar with a very characteristic shape. The same applies to the bottle of a caffeinated cold drink from the USA. So when you see the empty glass, you automatically associate what the contents were. But the container itself - the jar or the bottle - can also be filled with any other content. The yoghurt jar can serve as a lantern and the bottle as a water container for watering plants. The association is made

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00:01:16

Rocker

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/07/10

The tip of the ski, called the rocker, is cambered to make it easier to penetrate the snow and to improve the ski's steering behaviour. This camber also helps the ski to glide better over uneven terrain and makes it easier to turn and manoeuvre in different snow conditions. It's hard to believe that all this is possible thanks to this cambered tip. In such cases, I always ask myself: how did this come about? I imagine that people first tried to glide on the snow on slats or boards and

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00:01:17

Windmill

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/07/09

No matter how strongly the wind blows, it cannot crush grains and turn them into flour. Nevertheless, the wind has great strength, which is valuable for the task of producing flour. And so the windmill, with its mechanics and the grinding stones inside it, takes on the task of grinding the grains. However, this process is only successful if the two work together: The wind drives the mill and the mill grinds the grains into flour thanks to the wind power. It is a good example of how each part on

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00:01:23

Stracciatella

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/07/08

You are probably familiar with stracciatella ice cream. The term stracciatella comes from the Italian "stracciare" and means "to tear" or "to shred". The name comes from the production process that adds warm, melted chocolate to the milk ice cream. Why do people like this particular type of ice cream? Because of the chocolate? Then you could just eat chocolate. Because of the milk ice cream? Then you could just eat milk ice cream. It's the combination, I think

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00:01:18

Support

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/07/07

Trees are fascinating parts of creation. On the one hand, they have a very practical use for us because they convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and therefore ensure that we can continue to breathe. On the other hand, they embody strength, stability, continuity and also serve human needs in a very practical way with their wood - and, depending on the type of tree, with their fruit. What is also impressive is the fact that the part below ground is about as extensive as the visible part above ground

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00:01:18

Spice shaker

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/07/06

There is usually a salt and pepper shaker on each table in a catering establishment. What they have in common is that the size of the shakers is easy to hold with one hand, they are easy to sprinkle and they can be refilled. They are therefore nothing more than containers that provide the actual contents in portions. In fact, the company could simply place a kilo pack of salt and a jar of peppercorns on the table. There would be no difference in terms of content - but firstly it would be less

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00:01:19

Experiment

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/07/05

At school, chemistry was a closed book for me. I simply didn't understand a lot of things, the theory was incomprehensible to me. But I found the work in the lab fascinating, the special equipment, trying things out and testing and experimenting. I still particularly like the meaning of experimenting today: finding out. In other words, you do something in order to gain a new or perhaps previously conscious or accidental experience. This does not always require a laboratory, which is basically

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00:01:24

Values

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/07/04

Societies need values to guide them, which are universally valid and respected. We live in a world of declining values, we hear here and there. If we no longer have values that are universally valid and respected by everyone, cornerstones such as truth, freedom, justice etc. become individually interpreted axioms and sooner or later the consequences are conflicts, an increased willingness to use violence and mutual judgement in our coexistence. The people of our time are obviously finding it

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00:01:22

Eviction

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/07/03

Just recently there was a neighbourhood flea market Sunday in our neighbourhood. This meant that anyone who wanted to could offer things they no longer wanted in the public space in front of their house. In the evening of the same day, there was as much furniture in our street on the pavement opposite as there would be during a moving house. The next day, the rubbish collectors came and took it all away. As humans, depending on our type, we have the ability to collect and keep things. You never

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00:01:12

Table edge

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/07/02

Every table usually has a table edge. This is the place where the table ends. Interesting that this area has its own name. It doesn't have to be. It could simply be called the end of the table top, but this part has its own name. Many of us have had unpleasant encounters with this part of the furniture - namely because we bumped into it and it was a painful experience. It's not the table edge's fault. However, it also does not explicitly warn of the supposed danger. It is simply

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00:01:20

Christmas Cookies

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/07/01

It's summertime and many of us are enjoying the long days. Some of us certainly enjoy the many delicious fruits at this time of year and all the fresh produce that is not available in the winter months. If I were to ask in December whether anyone likes Christmas biscuits, there is a good chance that the answer would be yes. These many different biscuits are delicious and nutritious and delight adults and children alike. If I were to ask the same question these days, I would probably receive

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00:01:12

Cut

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/30

If a knife or pair of scissors becomes blunt, you don't have to throw them away, you can have them sharpened and they will regain their sharpness for cutting. In the past, there were specially trained and equipped professionals who travelled from house to house offering this service. So how is this sharpening restored? By using the same or a similarly hardened object. In other words, the scissors or knife regains its sharpness and thus its ability by grinding it against a hard or harder

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00:01:22

Hand cart

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/29

In my childhood, it was common to see a ladder wagon here and there. These were wooden trolleys in which you could place materials and transport them by hand. Today you might still see them in folklore museums but not in everyday life. A pity really. They were not only practical for goods, but as children we also enjoyed sitting in them and being pulled by an adult. Today, alternatives are used, optimised in terms of weight with lightweight plastics, usually covered so that nothing gets wet even in

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00:01:20

Strawberry

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/28

Strawberries are now on sale again these days and weeks and many have been waiting a long time for this time. When ripe, strawberries can be enormously refreshing, aromatic, fruity and delicious. You can enjoy them as berries or on a cake, with muesli, as jam, in combination with rhubarb and some even like them with pepper. For me, the strawberry also has many parallels with us humans: it grows very close to the ground, to the earth - like humans, who come from the earth. It is very sensitive in

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00:01:19

Calligraphy

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/27

Have you ever come across the term calligraphy? It is a compound term and literally means: beautiful writing. So it's about the art of beautiful writing. I like such calligraphic works because they have something artistic and noble about them. In surveying, until a few decades ago, the land register sheets, which were maintained on aluminium boards in the offices, were also provided with calligraphic parcel designations created by hand. This calligraphy can therefore lend additional meaning or

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00:01:18

Switch

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/26

If you are travelling by train, you can only get to where the tracks have been laid. It is predetermined which areas are developed and it is generally not possible to take any route to your destination. This sometimes leads to detours. It is therefore a good idea to use switches to change from one connection to another so that the route can be found more easily. A switch is therefore a decisive point on the route - it is here that the direction of travel is decisively decided and, compared to a

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00:01:23

Origami

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/25

Have you ever been to a party where napkins were artistically folded on the tables for the upcoming meal? I can only marvel at such creativity and I always found it difficult to unfold the napkin to use it. I felt as if I was really destroying a work of art or even a small creature. When I see something like this, I ask myself: how did it come about, how was it created? Did the artist already know exactly what they wanted to do and then practised until they were happy with it or did something like

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00:01:15

Demystified

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/24

Recently, a colleague told me the following story: he was in Florida and ate a special cake there that he really enjoyed. As he had discovered it before during a previous trip to Florida, he enjoyed it even more. Back home, he had the idea of trying to make this cake himself. To his great surprise, it was relatively easy to make and tasted just as good as it did in the United States. It is an example of how we sometimes mystify certain things because we think they are complex, can only be created

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00:01:18

Worm

Audiostretto 59/4/24 English ·

2024/06/23

The expression 'there's a worm in it' means that something is not really going well, that something is stuck somewhere, is not as it should or could be - a muddled situation. With hazelnuts, you may have noticed that there are sometimes very small holes in the hard shell and that the nut kernel is infested with a worm. This is the hazelnut borer. It is a small weevil that lays its eggs in the unripe fruit. The larvae hollow out the nut and leave it through the visible small borehole to

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