Tag: politics and science
Experts criticize leadership changes at the TU Nuremberg – Bavaria
A departure that is probably not entirely voluntary: the scientists on the supervisory board support the outgoing founding president Hans Jürgen Prömel and complain about too much interference from the…
Loud and clueless? – Knowledge
Contemporary debates often seem like a collective downhill race. The participants outdo each other by rushing towards the abyss on their ideologically prepared steep slopes. The crash is coming, the…
Does Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim want to get into politics?: “Nerds in power” – media
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim has become known for YouTube videos in which she explains complicated science in simple terms. Since 2016, the science journalist and doctor of chemistry has been doing…
Munich: Biotopia loses its founding director to the MIT Museum – Munich
Michael John Gorman worked on the opening of Biotopia for nine years – against a variety of resistance. Now the project is losing its founding director. The Irishman will in…
Nasa’s new UFO director: Mark McInerney – Knowledge
At first, NASA did not want to reveal the name of the person who would hold the newly created director position, apparently for security reasons. But then he was introduced…
Civil process: Greens in the state parliament do not want to pay for the study – Bavaria
The Greens group commissions an expert opinion, but is dissatisfied with the result – and does not want to pay. But when is an investigation a good investigation? The matter…
Science in the Ukraine crisis: the curtain is closed again
Russia is isolated. Now the scientific exchange is also on hold. That is understandable – is it also correct? source site
Political division: the power of clear stance – knowledge
from Sebastian Herrmann If politicians change their point of view and thus deviate from the line of their party, this is often considered suspicious. Such figures are often criticized for…
Munich: TU researchers set up CoronaNet database – Munich
School closures, lockdown, masks: Munich scientists have compiled data on more than 100,000 corona measures. Where was the policy successful, where not? from Catherine Hoffman This success was not to…