If you don't have the time or desire to delve deeper into a topic, but still want to be able to provide some information, read encyclopedia articles or introductions.

Even the life and work of Sigmund Freud or the foundations of critical theory are now available as a "graphic guide", which means in concrete terms: speech bubbles, dynamic images, not too many details.

The good news is that there are comparable formats on television.

The other good news is: even in the context of public political talk.

Sandra Maischberger is a specialist in powering through three completely different topics very quickly, you have to put it that way, in 75 minutes.

Kai Spanke

Editor in the Feuilleton.

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This time, six guests had their say, who were forced to have little speaking time and therefore had to limit themselves to the essentials.

This in turn caused statements that sometimes seemed to be dressed in speech bubbles.

For example: "I'll eat a broom when the pandemics stop." As said by zoonoses researcher Fabian Leendertz.

He was the evening's monkeypox specialist and shared his experiences with the virus.

Fortunately, an infection is “not extremely dangerous for people” – and yet you can die from it.

It is important to distinguish between two types of pathogen, one from West Africa and one from Central Africa, with the latter posing a greater risk.

We are not prepared for many viruses

On the other hand, supposed harmlessness also has disadvantages, which Leendertz wanted to underline with the phrase "dead birds don't fly" apparently passed around among influenza researchers.

In other words, an infected, then quickly ill and soon dead goose hardly has time to infect other living beings.

On the other hand, an animal that is easily taken along and drags itself from A to B with difficulty could become a super spreader on the way.

Incidentally, in the case of monkeypox, it is not monkeys that are the reservoir, but rodents.

People became infected through close contact.

According to Leendertz, it is still possible to get the outbreak under control.

However, it is foreseeable that we will always have to deal with dangerous pathogens in the future because we are constantly pushing back nature and thus opening up habitats whose virus community we are not prepared for.

Maischberger recalled Ranga Yogeshwar, who pointed out before the show that even eating a pizza was not unproblematic.

Because the palm oil used in the preparation has a price - the clearing of primeval forests.

Speaking of Yogeshwar: The science journalist helped formulate the open letter to Olaf Scholz, written by Alice Schwarzer, in which prominent figures warn against supplying heavy weapons to Ukraine.

The reactions to this were often “black and white”, which makes one think of the debates about the corona virus.

"Basically, this war shows that the longer it lasts, the more scorched earth there is, the more terrible fates there are," Yogeshwar said.

Therefore, and that is the central message of the letter: "We have to negotiate."