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A team of owls is proving to be balm for the soul. The patients are free to pet and cuddle the birds that are specially trained for the interactions. ....
Friedmunt Sonnemann has been living in the forest for more than three decades, in a mud hut without electricity or water. When the stove in the living room is on, he finds 14 degrees quite pleasant. ....
A project in Germany is overhauling old gumball machines from which people can buy capsules of wild flower seeds selected specially to attract and help bees. ....
Chess, which can be played online without any contact, is a hobby that is essentially perfect for lockdown. dpa/Felix Koenig Chess is enjoying a moment. Between the pandemic keeping everyone at home and a popular new Netflix series, the nearly 1,500-year-old game is attracting players young and old. “The longer the pandemic lasts, the more people want to occupy themselves elsewhere, ” says Achim Schmitt, president of the Rhineland-Palatinate Chess Federation, in south-west Germany. And as luck would have it, chess, which can be played online without any contact, is a hobby that is essentially perfect for lockdown. “Online chess is definitely being played much more than a year ago, ” says Ullrich Krause, president of the German Chess Federation. ....