Friedrich August von Hayek (1899 - 1992) was one of the most prominent economists of the 20th century, scientifically taking a stand for liberalism and fighting nationalistic and internationalistic versions of socialism in Europe and abroad since his eminent "Road to Serfdom" (1944). Here is a nice ...
Since the start of the space age, technology development has been hampered by one major problem: The launch cost per unit of payload mass has always been prohibitively high. This very effectively dissuades users from developing large orbital applications. Because there are no large applications to be launched, there is no strong ...
In this last of five Nature Videos from this year's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Physiology and Medicine Nobel laureate Oliver Smithies talks with Diego Bohórquez from Duke University (USA) about being hungry for knowledge. ...
By the end of this year we will know whether Higgs bosons exist, as the director of CERN claimed in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on 28/07/2011. Since my youth, when I graduated in the field of particle physics, I have been aware of the hypothesis that such a particle should exist. It was at the time when the importance of so-called ...
If you plan to direct a movie with a realistic visual migraine aura, tell your people to call my people and we'll do lunch. If you are Edmund Messina, or any other a practicing neurologist and filmmaker call me directly: +493143028948. Edmund produced and directed Life and Migraine . A brief synopsis : ...
This episode is a converation with Dieter Schimanski, the Operations Manager of the European Transonic Windtunnel . In late June of 2011 I had the chance to visit the facility. The episode starts out with a one hour conversation about aerodynamics and the concepts behind the ETW. The rest of the episode is essentially an audio ...
19 January 2012 |
