Startup, Tech, and Physics
I came across Nir and his second book, ‘Indistractable,’ through the podcast ‘On the way to new work‘, which is usually in German, but some episodes with international guests are held in English. Nir is an expert in habit building Read More …
This February was quite exciting for all space enthusiasts, as three spacecraft were arriving at Mars: Hope (Emirates Mars Mission) and Tianwen-1 (China’s Mars Mission) entered Martian orbit to investigate the Martian atmosphere. And last week, the NASA rover ‘Perseverance’ Read More …
A year ago, the German newspaper “Die Zeit” published a critical report on how many trees the nonprofit Plant-for-the-Planet (PftP) actually plants. After researching – by its own account – for a year and closely examining the numbers, the accusations Read More …
We start right at the beginning of Cixin Liu’s novel Death’s End when the theoretical physicist Yang Dong finds herself in the control room of a supercomputer facility. In former times it was used to model particle collisions. But since the Read More …
Just two weeks after I started my Ph.D. at TU Dresden, I attended my first conference as a Ph.D. student. It wasn’t a specialist research conference, though. The “Second Conference on Student Research,” held in fall 2017, was an interdisciplinary Read More …
In the last couple of months, Corona has turned the world upside down. Or better say from outside to inside, and suddenly we found ourselves as part of an experiment in remote work and digital teaching, which neither of us had Read More …
Every time you undertake research, you create new knowledge about our world and, thus, new data. The challenge is now: How to store and manage all of this data for later reuse? NFDI is an initiative within Germany, put forward Read More …
When Ulugh Beg Madrasa was built in 1420, it soon became one of the educational centers of Central Asia, attracting astronomers, mathematicians, and scholars from all over the Islamic world. Today it is one of the main tourist attractions in Samarkand. But Read More …
I have to admit this country wasn’t on my bucket list. For sure, I had heard of it before from the media, but mostly in the context of political repression, censorship, and sometimes also its cultural heritage stemming from the Read More …
Over the past couple of years, I had the pleasure of meeting several highly ambitious high school students, for example undertaking early study (as I did), attending hackathons, or even introducing themselves to found a graphene startup. As much as Read More …