On the 10th anniversary of Aaron Swartz’s death
As a teenager, he helped develop the codes for the web standard RSS and the Creative Commons licenses, and later Aaron Swartz helped build the net culture forum Reddit. On January 11, 2013, the hacker and activist took his own life in New York.
Margeret McKenny DuPree and her unusual career choice
Margaret McKenney had a dream: she wanted to become a funeral director. At that time, in the first half of the 20th century, morticians and preachers were the two most respected professions in the black community, her son explains to me when I visit him in the family’s funeral home in North Philadelphia.
Political scientist, journalist and Green Party veteran Paul Nellen has died.
Paul Nellen
Februar 26, 1947 – June 29, 2022
In his memory, some friends and companions wrote:
Valer Clark has created a wildlife corridor in the U.S.-Mexico border area.
When she arrived in the Mexican border area forty years ago, the earth was depleted and no longer stored water. Using an ancient technique, gabions, Valer Clark has made the earth fertile again.
Chaim Litvin in Louisville, Kentucky, certifies kosher whiskey and distills some himself.
Eastern European Jews brought the tradition of whiskey distilling with them to the USA. Distilled from grain, the ingredients water and yeast are kosher. So why does it need to be certified?
Is there “systemic racism” in Germany? Even some non-whites have their doubts about it. So does a young man from Hesse. He says he has never really experienced racism and criticizes the Black Lives Matter movement.
How war childhoods affect the next generation.
In September 2021, the gerontologist and psychiatrist Hartmut Radebold died. His life’s theme: the profound family changes caused by World War II, especially the absence of fathers. Eight years ago, Hartmut Radebold, his wife and his children talked openly about their own family dynamics. South West German Radio (SWR) has now repeated the feature.
The physician, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and book author was considered the “doyen of German-language psyhotherapy for the elderly.” He died at 86.
Hartmut Radebold’s subject was the transgenerational psychological and psychosocial consequences of fatherless childhoods during World War II. He himself was 10 when his father fell. At an advanced age, he faced not only his past, but also the consequences for his own two children.
Hartmut Radebold passed away on September 17, 2021, two days after his wife Hildegard, to whom he had been married for 57 years.
For West German Radio (WDR), Hartmut Radebold told me his life story. And for South West Radio (SWR), his wife Hildegard and their children Sabine and Tobias also recalled how they had experienced him as a husband and father.
Bavarian Radio repeats my RadioJourney in the US state of Washington. Here the acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, called the Soundtracker, hunts for silence and the sounds of nature. And in the Elwha River in Olympic National Park, more and more salmon are swimming again since the two dams have been dismantled.
Volker Volker Seitz spent 46 years in the German Foreign Service, including 17 years on his favorite continent: Africa
Even as a child, he was fascinated by the reports of African researchers, this is why he joined the German Foreign Service in 1965. Volker Seitz is one of the initiators of the “Bonn Call for Reform of Development Aid”. He is the author of the standard work “Afrika wird arm regiert” (“Africa is governed to poverty”).
