Sorry, I did not find the time to write so much here during this month. I have been revising manuscripts (on asthma genetics and another on the history of vitamin D introduction), traveling to another visit in Bolzano, a meeting in Barcelona and a retreat at Seeon. At present (Show me more…)
According to Nature news Matthias Kleiner is cited as
“This low percentage of women [in professorships] is a scandal for German science, and at the same time it’s a waste of intellectual resources”.
The percentage of women in science is not a waste of intellectual resources -beware- it is the missing high percentage which is certainly not the same….
This question goes back nearly 20 years when I asked that Professor Busch (who wrote a most insightful biography on Karl Barth) as I couldn’t find anything neither in Günsbach nor in Zürich where most of Schweitzer’s writing are being stored. But now – equipped with a national license to the digital Barth library- I found a letter of Barth to Thurneysen that makes such a meeting likely in November 1928 (Show me more…)
The Lancet of Dec 6, 2008 shows an excellent example of independent science (and in particular public health research) and gives an account why this is necessary although I agree with the author (Show me more…)
According to Wikipedia on May 24, 1844 Samuel Morse sent his famous words “What hath God wrought” from the B&O’s Baltimore station to the Capitol Building along the wire – the first email. (Show me more…)
