Okay – I admit it: I’m a freakin nerd. I felt compelled to answer a question on Quora along the lines of the question above. What does that say about me? But to the topic! Here in Germany the career … Continue reading →
Yesterday Stephen Hawking left planet Earth, where, arguably, his mind spent very little time anyway. For reasons known only to the committee in charge, he never received a Nobel Prize, although he may easily have deserved two: one for the … Continue reading →
For me, the scientist, the stark difference between public “discourse” and the problems we are really facing, globally, in this century, causes an almost unbearable soul wrenching pain. Here is an example from within my scientific communities — warnings that largely go … Continue reading →
What holds true in any war is even more at the core of the ongoing “info-wars” these days: war is mostly what in German we call “Tarnen und Täuschen”, a shorthand for concealment/coverups/fakings and deception. The one field I have, … Continue reading →
My contributions to Celesteprize 2017: Emotions and beliefs are the real commercial goods of the 21st century. The complexity of the world we live in makes it virtually impossible to make always decisions based on verifiable facts, all the more … Continue reading →
The world is becoming more and more complex. Paradoxically, a specialist in complexity is a specialist who is not a specialist to begin with. With the amount of knowledge available today, it is hardly possible anymore to be a first-class … Continue reading →
