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Are Us Mere Mortals Immortal? A scientific life-line reading – by OTA-Berlin blog contributor Jörn Meyer

Friday, April 6th, 2012

The 64.000 dollar question of all times: Do we live forever? Forever, ever, forever, ever, Ms. Jackson? I don’t mean to make your daughter cry by posing such a heavy question. No, it is Stephen Cave who looks into the subject of immortality through the eyes of the doctor of philosophy, Cambridge lecturer, British writer and diplomat that he is.

He also is [...] Continue Reading…

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Berlin ‘street poetry’ – l’art pour l’art on the corners of Mitte – by OTA-Berlin Constituency Blog contributor Mr Jörn Meyer

Friday, February 24th, 2012

You have surely heard that age-old adage “I’m a poet and I know it”, right? Well, that’s me. So you can imagine how thrilled I was when I came across a special concert of words the other day, displayed on a little wooden bill-board happily - albeit somewhat inconspicuously - dangling from the mesh of a lone fence near the handsome Elisabeth Church in Mitte.

There I stood – with [...] Continue Reading…

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