A 500 gram packet of Roma tomatoes at 88 cents at a discounter, and that in the middle of winter: according to social ecologist Michaela Theurl, this should not exist. The scientist thinks that tomatoes should be “a luxury good”. In any case, if the negative environmental costs were taken into account, tomatoes should be […]
Shortly after an 18-year-old went on a rampage in a lecture hall at Heidelberg University, a lot of information was circulating on the internet. But many were misleading: fake photos, unfounded information. False leads, manipulated photos Conflicting information on several crime scenes or several perpetrators could, for example, make the work of the police considerably […]
“Gernot Böhme was extremely tolerant,” says his former student Dieter Mersch, who now teaches aesthetics and theory at the Kunsthochschule Zürich. “I came from a more semiotic, post-structural, deconstructive direction, which he didn’t like at all. But his attitude was: I’m interested, I’m interested in what somebody else thinks – like a moment of resistance […]
“I was often taken for a boy until I was five years old. On the one hand I thought it was cool, and on the other it was like: no, I’m a girl!”, remembers Kris Strobel, 34 years old, environmental specialist. . “But I also found it a little wrong to say that I am […]
Dropcap the popularization of the “ideal measure” has led to advice such as “Increase font size for large screens and reduce font size for small screens.” While a good measure does improve the reading experience, it’s only one rule for good typography. Another rule is to maintain a comfortable font size. Strech lining hemline above […]
What drives people to commit politically motivated crimes, in extreme cases to violence? To date, this is only insufficiently understood. In the discussion, we can very roughly distinguish two approaches. According to the manipulation thesis, people hear propaganda and conspiracy theories and thereby change their political opinion. Because they see the state as an aggressor, […]
Nico was 13 years old when he drank alcohol for the first time. “I knew right away on day one that I was overdoing it, because that’s how the effects were then. Well, I had quite an accident that night. Nico grew up in the countryside. “It’s actually normal to start so early.” The one […]
Antibodies are small proteins that adapt precisely to certain surface structures of a pathogen and deactivate it if they attach to it. They are effective, but the immune system has different ways of dealing with pathogens, explains immunologist Leif Erik Sander of Charité Berlin. “That’s a good thing, because infectious agents are also very different. […]
It is not only the Federal Minister of Health Lauterbach who wants it: the general obligation to vaccinate against Covid-19. But there is also resistance. What stands in the way – from a legal, epidemiological, social and practical point of view? Moderator: Annette Riedel
On one side it is artistically curved, on the other it is more jagged, it is sometimes expansive, sometimes crowded, leaning to the left or to the right: our writing is unique, no two are the same. But in the age of laptops, smartphones and the like, we write less and less by hand – […]
