A look back into the past can help us understand what we have today. Here are some memories about numerical weather forecasting four decades ago... Maybe it was the annoying accuracy that the poor weather we keep having this European winter was predicted which made me look in the attic for an old brochure from the year 1972. This ...
Is there an unbridgeable enmity between science(s) and religion(s) - or will they reconvene as in concepts of evolutionary theism? From the perspective of evolutionary studies of religion, that's less of a philosophical question than an empirical one. COULD it happen may be a question of fruitless speculation. ...
Today may mark the imminent end of US ambitions to lead space exploration. The "Vision for Space Exploration" (VSE) that former president Bush initiatied (however, neglecting to provide appropriate funding) may be axed. ( Lesen Sie diesen Artikel hier auf Deutsch ) If this ...
Mathematics is as sharp as a scalpel and cuts brain malfunctioning into pieces. The first part of my title is copied from an awareness campaign of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, better known as SIAM. In this campaign, mathematics behind everyday life is explained in 16 posters, such as ...
Braincast 012 For decades they told us our brains were doomed, its cells vanish and we would become more dense every day. This is not invariably the case. That and more good news in a Braincast about the date of expiry. MP3 File Duration: 16:00 As promised you´ll find those interesting rat brain robots ...
Can you imagine a Danish Protestant (1638-1686) and natural scientist becoming a German catholic bishop? It happened! Niels Stensen, in the then usual latinized form Nicolaus Steno was at his time a leading natural scientist, famous as physician, anatomist, crystallograph, mineralogist and geologist. He was the son of a goldsmith. ...
Last week, astrophsicist from all over the world presented the first results from the infrared satellite mission Herschel in Madrid in the Herschel Science Demonstration Initial Results Presentations workshop. It was very exciting to be at this event. Some of the images taken by Herschel could have been from the Hubble ...
7 February 2010 |
