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As part of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Henriette Herz Scouting Programme, Maren Röger brought Romanian art historian Alexandra Chiriac to Leipzig. With her expertise in popular cultures and performance theory, she now enriches the profile of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO).
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“Better connected!” – the latest issue of the Humboldt Kosmos magazine on how important research networks are for the world during and after the pandemic
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To discover what holds the world together in its innermost core – philosophy seeks to find timeless truths that apply to all people. Today, however, the canon is largely dominated by the thoughts of a few European philosophers. Just how much racism informs their thinking is the issue being explored by Marina Martinez Mateo.
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Using computer simulations, researchers can both predict the climate in the coming decades as well as produce short-term weather forecasts for specific regions. But so far, they are not as precise as they might be. In order to calculate the complex processes in the atmosphere and identify local extreme weather events such as heavy rain at an early stage, enormous computing capacity is required. New supercomputers could provide it. The atmospheric physicist Bjorn Stevens is working on it.
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In the digital world, artificial intelligence often has the effect of reinforcing opinions. It creates filter bubbles, promotes radical tendencies and influences elections. Jose Renato Laranjeira de Pereira investigates these dark sides of AI.
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According to the UN, the practice affects more than 200 million women worldwide: young girls are subject to genital mutilation at the hands of their parents or relatives – a violent ritual.
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Suddenly, your fingers start to cramp up while playing or your facial muscles stop doing the things they have done thousands of times before. Dystonia is a neurological disorder which usually expresses itself in muscle cramps and uncontrollable movements.
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They travel the world unnoticed on ships or lorries, hidden in the earth in a flowerpot or in a crate full of fruit. The spread of invasive ant species is almost impossible to prevent.
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Stars, dust and baby planets are the orbit of astrophysicist Paola Pinilla’s research. With the help of high-performance telescopes on Earth, she regularly visits delivery rooms in the cosmos, observing protoplanetary discs of gas and dust that rotate around young stars.
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When I went to Germany in 1988 to do my dissertation, that was totally unusual for a woman from Ethiopia.
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