But let your communication be Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Yes, we can

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…)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

A waste of intellectual resources

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….

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Did Karl Barth and Albert Schweitzer ever meet?

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…)

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

A strange survey at Slashdot

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nay, nay.

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