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CIPC #471: Bern gegen Rassismus ad

Posted on March 31, 2026March 31, 2026

Technically speaking, I haven’t yet filleted any public service announcements on this blog. But they are really just advertisement under another name, so I’m not…

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CIPC #470: Tatort E281, Stahlwalzer

Posted on March 24, 2026March 24, 2026

When I previously wrote about a Tatort episode, I quietly passed over the fact that that was episode one thousand three hundred and two of…

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CIPC #469: Ascenseur pour l’échafaud

Posted on March 18, 2026March 18, 2026

Our topic for today is a French movie from 1958. The plot goes like this: a man murders his boss, but he gets stuck in…

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CIPC #468: Coupling S4 E3, Bed time

Posted on March 11, 2026March 13, 2026

Coupling is mostly known from quantum theory, where it means that a change in states of one of the coupled systems will instantaneously produce in…

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CIPC #467: The adventures of Tintin S2 E6, Tintin in Tibet

Posted on March 4, 2026March 4, 2026

Tintin is perhaps Belgium’s most successful export product,1 so it’s not surprising that I feature him on my blog when he plays chess. And yet,…

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Chess in popular culture

With this blog, I will critique chess as it appears in all sorts of popular media. I will honour the good and, probably much more frequently, castigate the bad.

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