Archive for 2007

underestimated instruments 3

Monday, October 8th, 2007
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We add the following three instruments to our unsorted and incomplete list of music instruments that deserve more attention than they get (more…)

trenndspotting

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

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…just some new color inspirations for the next Paris fashion week…:)

Death Star sighted near earth – Lichtberlin

Saturday, October 6th, 2007
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The above picture clearly shows, that Han Solo exagerated, when he first took the Death Star for a moon. (more…)

additional resources

Friday, October 5th, 2007

The European Women in mathematics – an organisation whose intend is to support woman in mathematics – has added a new ressource, namely the EMS Committee on Women and Mathematics Weblog. The five minute video Women and Mathematics Across Cultures in their latest blog post gives a bit of an overview about EWM and its history.

science lectures on video

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Today Wednesday, Oct 3 the Wired Science Series premieres at 8 p.m. (east coast time?) on PBS. I am usually not announcing new TV shows on this blog, but looking at wired in general i think it will probably be a nice show which deserves more attention.
Among others the Wired Science show is intended for teachers in order to “electrify Science & Tech Instruction”. So if you have access to PBS hurry up, since as I understood the archived online versions are not free (?).

Moreover I would like to use this announcement as an introduction to a pledge for some help from you – the anonymous reader.

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skullful

Monday, October 1st, 2007
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IMPORTANT IMPORTANT!!!!! FAST NOTICE!!!

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

business opportunity:

The magnetic interactive-W-Lan-e-paper-fridge-calendar invention from the last post is still sort of free to grab.
The invention was generously funded by the loyal hortical society of theoretical country, but since this small non profit organization lacks the funds to get top notch patent lawyers to defend our intellectual property, we probably won’t succeed in our

* File for patent protection

which we are oblidged to do by theoretical countries analog of the Bayh-Dole Act (if one wants to retain the title). In short:

patend is pending (in theoretical country)

on the

magnetic interactive-W-Lan-e-paper-fridge-calendar

but not for long. Thus any company with sufficient financial backing may go ahead and think about generating revenue with the super-duper magnetic interactive-W-Lan-e-paper-fridge-calendar!

from wittenberg to e-paper

Friday, September 28th, 2007

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Codes can be harsh

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

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From his last conference in spain Tim brought back the typical conference presents, like notepads and informations about the region of Castro Urdiales. Well I am not so interested in settling down in Castro-Urdiales so I flipped only briefly through the infos about the real estate developments of the region. However what caught my attention was the above paper strip. It is an explanation of how to use a spanish fan (there was also a plastic fan among the presents) (Warning: I had never been to spain so my astonishment about the fan may appear ridiculous to some spain experts).

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short story

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

again a short story from my classmate which she wants me to publish for her creative writing class (in german). this time the task was to contemplate about language use in advertisements.

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