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vicgrinberg, 25 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to SciComm

Wie viel Wissenschaft steckt in der Netflix-SciFi-Serie "3 Body Problem"? Darüber habe ich gestern Abend drei Stunden lange mit Dr. Lisa Ringena von IsoQuant Heidelberg & @nawik und Cedric Engels aka Doktor Whatson bei ARTE #Couchwissen gesprochen.

Nachzusehen gibt es die ganze live Show hier: ▶️ https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2136292075

Wem das zu lang ist - in ein paar Wochen gibt es eine halbe Stunde Best Of auf dem #ARTE Youtube Kanal!

#scicomm #wisskomm #astrodon #3BodyProblem #scifi

gregorni, 1 month ago to calligraphy

I'm now officially deprecating Calligraphy (Couldn't do it yet, but should happen in the next few days). I don't consider it worth maintaining anymore.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to it, and to @omglinux for publishing an article on it the day after its release!

#Calligraphy

vicgrinberg, 5 months ago to random

Good food is art. It's like going to a concert. Like standing in front of a Vermeer painting. Like getting a tour of a 2000 year old temple. Like a modern art installation that leaves you shaken and thinking. But instead of your ears and your eyes it's your mouth that experiences. And always, always your brain.

mcnees, 8 months ago to random

Happy 118th birthday to special relativity!

Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published #OTD in 1905 in the journal Annalen der Physik.

Manuscript: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/andp.19053221004
English Translation: https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/

The first paragraph of the paper, in German. Translated to English is reads: It is known that Maxwell's electrodynamics—as usually understood at the present time—when applied to moving bodies, leads to asymmetries which do not appear to be inherent in the phenomena. Take, for example, the reciprocal electrodynamic action of a magnet and a conductor. The observable phenomenon here depends only on the relative motion of the conductor and the magnet, whereas the customary view draws a sharp distinction between the two cases in which either the one or the other of these bodies is in motion. For if the magnet is in motion and the conductor at rest, there arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet an electric field with a certain definite energy, producing a current at the places where parts of the conductor are situated. But if the magnet is stationary and the conductor in motion, no electric field arises in the neighbourhood of the magnet...

vicgrinberg, 8 months ago to Astro

Wenn ihr in der Gegend #Münster seid und Lust auf zwei Tage #Astronomie, kommt doch zum Astroseminar am 13. & 14. Oktober 💫

Ich stelle das Astrophysik Programm der #ESA vor, Kolleginnen sprechen über Neutrinos, dunkle Materie und vieles mehr. Niveau: zugänglich für alle interessierten, von echten Wissenschaftlerinnen vorgetragen (mit viel. Zeit für Fragen). Und einen offenen Tag am Institut der Kernphysik gibt es auch 😊

▶️ https://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik.Astroseminar/programm/index.html

#astrodon #wisskomm

docalm, 8 months ago to random German

Fred vom Jupiter

gregorni, 8 months ago to programming

Me when #programming: "I'll just take care of the implementation for now, and optimize later"

Me, later: doesn't optimize

Gargron, 8 months ago to random

It started with me opting not to keep smart lights when I moved. I found the routine of pressing physical switches more rewarding than the tap of a touch screen. I've since gotten into vinyl, and film photography. I still stream music, and I still take photos with my iPhone when it's more convenient, but I find the physicality of analog devices uniquely rewarding.

vicgrinberg, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Allow me this bit of self-adulation, but I think this is the first (and likely the last and only 😅 ) time my name is explicitly listed on Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B6ntgen-Preis

[edit to add: the award is from last year, but the wikipedia entry is new to me :D]

2ndStar, 9 months ago to random German

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2ndStar, 10 months ago to random German

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