Illustration and text: Susanne Gold With digitalization, he came into the world: the “Homo Protestus”, as I call him. You meet him in the social media. And if he had his way, witches would be …
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Witch Hunt 2.0: High-tech in the computer – Middle Ages in the brain!
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Always the right playlist? Whether cheerful or dreary days?
Text and illustration by Susanne Gold Spoilt for choice: the music selection on Spotify seems almost endless. Apparently, Spotify wants to help with the music selection – depending on the mood of the listener – …
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Ancestor gallery or utopia: pictures of people who have not yet been born?
Text Corinna Heumann / Illustration: numbers(e)motion, cpf. The art of the futuristic portrait Conceptual art physicist Christiane Pacyna-Friese depicts people living in a future, their talents and attitudes towards life in sound images. A touchable …
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“This world will be saved by laughter”
Text: Nina Beier Lockdown, exit restrictions, compulsory face masks – the coronavirus has turned our lives upside down in recent months. The following report was written before this very unusual time. A snapshot from times …
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Pandemic – danger and possibility!
Against the backdrop of the global challenge of the current coronavirus, it seems strange that we have taken it for granted that our lives would stay the way they are forever and that we are …
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Milking the blue cow
This historical expression originates from the west coast of Denmark and refers to the fact of living on the flotsam of the sea. After every major storm, the coastal dwellers once climbed over the sandy …
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A journey into the small universe: great quanta!
Wouldn’t it be fascinating to be in several places at once? In our everyday life this seems hard to imagine, and yet such effects occur on the scale of the smallest particles, the atoms and …
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Unconditional basic income: Utopia becomes reality!
Because robotics and artificial intelligence will take over more and more jobs in the future, the unconditional basic income has become one of the great utopias of our time. While our policy is not …
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The voices in our head and the stars in the sky – is everything we have learned wrong?
Measurements prove that only what passes through the filters in our brain can penetrate our consciousness. Only when synchronously firing nerve cells react to an object in our field of vision does a reality appear …
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Understanding the course of the world with Viagra!
Sometimes you can find solutions to problems that you have not looked for. This is the case with Sildenafil, better known under its brand name Viagra. This drug was originally developed to dilate coronary arteries. …
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Flying – Utopia and the curse of man
Subjected to the weight of the body, man can feel no greater longing than when he sees the migration of birds in the sky setting out for unreachable distances. Air travel to distant countries and …
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Digital vicious circle – Broken Web Circle
by Thomas-Gabriel Rüdiger Wild West Internet? In 2010, the Chancellor stressed in a podcast that the Internet is not a lawless space. In early 2018, she repeated this statement again in another podcast. Only – …
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The world in a hundred years
The world in a hundred years? What will she look like? In 1900 Jean-Marc Cote also asked himself this question and drew the fantasies of others. His drawings for the 1900 world exhibition were enclosed …