Lara and Gloria are now 7 months old. During the last month, they have made remarkable progress. Both can now roll over either which way, an...

Niels Bohr was a wise man. He once said: "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." That is especially true when...

"Vigorous writing is concise." ~William Strunk, The Elements of Style (1918) Fun: Die Zeit writes about Bernd Wurm who studied co...

Forget about cancer caused by cell phones , what about that ringing in your ear? About 10-15% of the adult population suffer from chronic t...

World Wide Mind The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet By Michael Chorost Is it surprising that self-aware beings be...

I woke up this morning to find my twitter account hacked, distributing spam. I'm currently reading Michael Chorost's new book “World...

The July issue of 'Physik Journal' (the membership journal of the German Physical Society) has an interview with Jack Steinberger . ...

Melvin the Machine: a Rube Goldberg machine with a twitter account . Melvin The Magical Mixed Media Machine from HEYHEYHEY on Vimeo . [ vi...

If you've been wondering what age babies are the cutest, there's a scientific answer to that. Yes, there is. In the year 1979, Kathe...

It's been a while since we discussed the question why we experience no more and no less than 3 spatial dimensions. The last occasion was...

Some random things that caught my attention recently: If you like PhD comics , they're working on a movie: Trailer here . The Helmholtz-...

So we're back in Germany. For the next months, I'm on parental leave again and Stefan works 9 to 5. Lara and Gloria are now almost 6...

In a recent NYT article , I learned about the "argumentative theory of reasoning," suggested by Dan Sperber , a French social and ...

[Last month, I volunteered for a study at the department of neuroscience at Karolinska Institute, if just out of curiosity to see the place....

Bell's inequality is the itch on the back of all believers in hidden variables. Based on only a few assumptions it states that some corr...

Okay, it's not really new. I actually started it last fall, but only finished this week. It's called "Herbstschatten" (Sha...

The Planck scale is the scale at which quantum gravitational effects are expected to become important. An extrapolation of the strength of ...

Two weeks ago, we had hail here in Stockholm. At that time I was homewards bound on the highway, and that's where I would be staying for...

The other day I was wondering out aloud whether somebody had ever checked the average number of co-authors to the next Nobelprize winner, be...

Quantum gravity has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of space, time, and matter and with it redefine our own place in the wo...