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 Every high school student now learns that plate tectonics slowly drive our continents in different directions. Since only the most uncontroversial scientific knowledge finds its way to high school text books, it’s hard to imagine that when the theory of continental drift was proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912, it was firmly rejected by the [...]  In the early September days of 1941, the German Luftwaffe started a prolonged bombardment of London which would later become known as ‘the Blitz‘. As the bombs continued to drop for months, thousands of Londoners sought refuge in the underground railway system. During the most intense periods of bombardment, the London Underground was home to [...]  So you want achieve everlasting fame by becoming immortalized in the rocks of our earth? Well, move to Amsterdam and join the local mafia! For the reasons why, you’ll have to follow me as I tell the longer story. You and I will not live forever. When we die we will leave behind our bodily [...]  Blogging will be slow the next few weeks, as I’m currently in the process of writing up my Master’s thesis, preparing the final presentation and generally finishing up the (last) internship of my MSc programme. After everything is over, I can hopefully call myself a Master of Science. It’s a strange feeling that 5 years [...] I came across a beautiful set of images created by German doctor / scientist / artist Fritz Kahn (1888 – 1968). In many of these images, he places the human body in an industrial context. The resulting combinations of technology and biology have a retro-futuristic feel to them, but are fare more than just a [...] |
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