Ein sehr schöner Abend gestern im #ForumWissen #Diversitätspreis #Göttingen #UniGöttingen 🥰 #Euroculture #Goettingen #ErasmusMundus #Diversity #Diversität

Today is World Bee Day.

25 of History’s Most Iconic Women 👑 1. 🇬🇷 Sappho 📅 c. 630 BC – c. 570 BC 🌟 Ancient lyric poet 2. 🇬🇧 Jane Austen 📅 1775–1817 🌟 Influential literary novelist 3. 🇬🇧 Mary Shelley 📅 1797–1851 🌟 Sci-fi pioneer author 4. 🇺🇸 Emily Dickinson 📅 1830–1886 🌟 Innovative American poet 5. 🇬🇧 Virginia Woolf 📅 1882–1941 🌟 Modernist literary writer 6. 🇫🇷 Edith Piaf 📅 1915–1963 🌟 Legendary French singer 7. 🇲🇽 Frida Kahlo 📅 1907–1954 🌟 Iconic surrealist painter 8. 🇺🇸 Josephine Baker 📅 1906–1975 🌟 Iconic dancer and spy 9. 🇬🇧 Agatha Christie 📅 1890–1976 🌟 Best-selling mystery novelist 10. 🇫🇷 Coco Chanel 📅 1883–1971 🌟 Fashion design pioneer 11. 🇺🇸 Billie Holiday 📅 1915–1959 🌟 Influential jazz vocalist 12. 🇺🇸 Ella Fitzgerald 📅 1917–1996 🌟 Queen of Jazz 13. 🇬🇧 Elizabeth II 📅 1926–2022 🌟 Longest-reigning British monarch 14. 🇺🇸 Marilyn Monroe 📅 1926–1962 🌟 Global pop culture icon 15. 🇺🇸 Maya Angelou 📅 1928–2014 🌟 Acclaimed poet and activist 16. 🇺🇸 Nina Simone 📅 1933–2003 🌟 Soul singer and activist 17. 🇺🇸 Toni Morrison 📅 1931–2019 🌟 Nobel laureate novelist 18. 🇯🇵 Yayoi Kusama 📅 1929–Present 🌟 Contemporary visual artist 19. 🇬🇧 Audrey Hepburn 📅 1929–1993 🌟 Film icon and philanthropist 20. 🇳🇱 Anne Frank 📅 1929–1945 🌟 Holocaust diary author 21. 🇺🇸 Aretha Franklin 📅 1942–2018 🌟 Queen of Soul 22. 🇮🇶🇬🇧 Zaha Hadid 📅 1950–2016 🌟 Visionary modern architect 23. 🇺🇸 Madonna 📅 1958–Present 🌟 Reigning Queen of Pop 24. 🇬🇧 Princess Diana 📅 1961–1997 🌟 Beloved royal philanthropist 25. 🇬🇧 J.K. Rowling 📅 1965–Present 🌟 Harry Potter creator Source: Britannica, Biography, Poetry Foundation, MoMA, Nobel Prize

David Attenborough, 'the voice for nature,' turns 100 reut.rs/48EFrlX reut.rs/48EFrlX

Where should the EU invest to create a better future for Europeans? Learn what’s at stake ahead of Parliament's vote next week on the EU long-term budget ↓

euroculturer.eu/ New, well-written and interesting articles! #theeuroculturer #euroculturer #euroculture 📚📖👍✔️

Above the iconic sails of the Sydney Opera House: Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter.

Sir Ian McKellen at 86 expertly reciting Shakespeare last night!

🇮🇹 #MilanoCortina2026 #Olympics #OpeningCeremony

As great powers abandon rules and values for their own interests, middle powers like Canada have a choice: compete with each other for favour or act together with impact.

Riveting, extraordinary and brutally honest speech by Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister. God, I wish we would have European leaders like this. Here's an excerpt: In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called “The Power of the Powerless,” and in it he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself? And his answer began with a greengrocer. Every morning, the shopkeeper places a sign in his window: “Workers of the world unite.” He doesn’t believe in it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists — not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false. Havel called this living within a lie. The system’s power comes not from its truth, but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack. Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down. For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We join its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection. We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes. So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Read/listen in full: globalnews.ca/news/11620877/…

Die #Polarlichter über #Göttingen geben grad alles…

It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰

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That's an interesting idea. How do you feel about this, folks?

youtu.be/3Uo0JAUWijM?si=tKxV… ATF - HAPPY NEW YEAR 🍾🥂 #ABBA #HappyNewYear2026

As 2025 comes to a close, I'm continuing a tradition that I started during my time in the White House: sharing my annual lists of favorite books, movies, and music. I hope you find something new to enjoy—and please send any recommendations for me to check out!

Leuchte auf mein #Stern #Borussia 🖤💛 #dortmund #bvb @Bundesliga_DE