Jürg Schneider

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The­se are texts I wri­te on the occa­si­on – of an obser­va­ti­on, an event, a per­so­na­li­ty, or past and pre­sent rese­arch, for exam­p­le.

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16. Mai 2026

A big fleet

When the Greeks wan­ted to take the city of Tro­ja, they sai­led the­re with a big fleet. An inte­re­st­ing find from an Egyp­ti­an tomb was made last year: the mum­mi­fi­ed body con­tai­ned Homer’s descrip­ti­on – in the Ili­as – of the Arma­da!

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We are all mortals

Not mor­ta­li­ty per se, but the count­less ways in which the „jour­ney“ to the Bey­ond is struc­tu­red, is the the­me of an exhi­bi­ti­on at the Muse­um of Cul­tures in Basel which I visi­ted last week.

250 years ago…

On March 9, 1776, “An Inquiry into the natu­re and cau­se of the Wealth of Nati­ons” by Adam Smith was published. The book remains a key text of poli­ti­cal eco­no­my and is a fasci­na­ting read.

From the Republic of Korea: Stories on „Tong-Il“ Rice and „Maroo“ Potato

I recent­ly watched “Pota­to Lab”, a K‑drama that fea­tures Mi-Kyung, the fema­le prot­ago­nist who is a pas­sio­na­te pota­to rese­ar­cher. She and her team deve­lop Maroo, a (fic­ti­tious) new dome­stic pota­to varie­ty.

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