Salman Rushdie writes great novels.

Since douglas adams was mentioned a few times, I also highly recommend anything by P.G. Wodehouse if british humor is something you want to get into…

I’m currently re-reading Jostein Gaarder with my kids, also a great read I think.

I’d assume for the purpose of this meme “globalism” means global player companies, i.e. google, microslop, shell and so on… not globalism as a wholistic approach to humanist values or something like that…

Dr. Roy Casagranda gives amazing lectures on history in general, especially political history and the history of the middle east.

Ich hab “nervt das” gelesen, bevor ich deinen titel las… man liest also das schwarze “nervt” zuletzt. Interessant!

It reads “demokritos”. I’ll leave it to someone else to link to his wiki page, since i am on my phone and can’t handle it…

Same here. We could choose french, or if we did not bother to choose ended up in english… So I reckon either it changed in the early-mid 2000s or it is “Ländersache” and some have a choice option, others don’t.

I’m not sure about the first and second "s"es, but the third is an “ß” (es and zet) that is still used for a sharp s sound following a long vowel… it’s still in use, for example in “Straße” (street). The second “t” is a “tz” which is also atill in use in words like Katze (cat).

Everything on the channel “How to basic” is hilarious…