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Ballers in God: Community, Faith and the Debate Around Felix Nmecha
In professional soccer, almost everything is measured: distance covered, market values, shots and reach. What personally sustains a player is harder to capture in numbers. The Christian network Ballers in God wants to create space for exactly that. The current debate around Felix Nmecha is an occasion to take a closer look at this community…
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November 10, 1969: Sesame Street Premieres — the Children’s Show That Raised Generations
On November 10, 1969, a new children’s program appeared on American public television. Sesame Street — set on an inner-city street where humans and Muppets lived side by side — was designed by educators and researchers to teach disadvantaged preschoolers, using the fast-paced techniques of commercial TV. Fifty-seven years later, it is the most widely…
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Pope Leo XIV in Argentina: Why His Speech Is No Reckoning with Milei
On November 8, 2026, Pope Leo XIV spoke in Buenos Aires about politics and social responsibility. Reading the address as a reckoning with Argentine president Javier Milei falls short: the wording itself does not carry that attribution. Here is a summary and an assessment. The speech in brief Democracy: The rule of law, freedom of…
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Aiciety.net Relaunch: A New Home for AI News and Backgrounds
Aiciety.net has been relaunched. The site, which takes its name from the idea of a society shaped by artificial intelligence, is back with a new look — and with a new mission: to report regularly on AI news and to explain the backgrounds that rarely fit into a headline. The self-description on the new homepage…
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Adaspace Before Its IPO: What’s Behind China’s AI Satellites
Artificial intelligence in space sounds like the next big infrastructure bet. Adaspace wants to take that story to the Hong Kong stock exchange. The prospectus, however, shows a business whose revenue, margins, and losses are moving in very different directions. What is especially interesting is what lies between selling a satellite and running a permanently…
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Prática Heads for Madrid: Brazil’s Kitchen Technology Looks to the European Capital Market
Prática Produtos is a Brazilian manufacturer of professional kitchen equipment that is likely little known outside its industry. The company is now working on an additional stock market listing in Spain. What makes this interesting is both the recent business figures and the chosen path: access to the capital market does not have to be…
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Carlsberg India Ahead of Its IPO: Why Revenue Is Falling and Growing at the Same Time
Carlsberg India is preparing for a stock market listing in which only existing shares are to be sold. Even the financial figures in the draft prospectus offer plenty of material for discussion: depending on which revenue definition you use, the most recent fiscal year looks like a decline or like significant growth. The difference lies…
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Genneia and YPF Luz: Why Two Argentine IPO Plans Are Stalling
Two Argentine energy companies had their sights on a listing on the US stock market: Genneia and YPF Luz. In early November, Bloomberg reported that both plans are on hold for now. Behind the similar headline, however, lie different economic reasons. For Genneia, it is about the valuation it could achieve; for YPF Luz, about…
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November 9, 1989: The Berlin Wall Falls — the Night the Cold War Ended in Champagne
On the evening of November 9, 1989, an East German official announced at a press conference that new travel regulations would take effect “immediately, without delay.” Within hours, tens of thousands of East Berliners streamed to the Wall’s checkpoints; by midnight, border guards — with no orders — simply opened the gates. The Berlin Wall…
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Movement vs. Episode – or Why Senator El-Sayed Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump
I. Preamble: The Episode and the Movement I consider Abdul El-Sayed, since November 3, 2026 the elected U.S. Senator for Michigan, more dangerous in the long run for the liberal constitution and the libertarian spirit of the United States than Donald Trump. That is a provocative thesis, and it met with a lot of pushback…