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Why Do You Compare Mao and Gandhi, Ms Ramaswamy?
Sumathi Ramaswamy is comparing the two founding fathers of the world’s most populated countries.
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
Why Are People Here So Peculiar?
We’re amazed, amused, confused or dumbfounded. Spending time abroad always puts our normal expectations to the test. What are the mechanisms that control our percept ion when we are immersed in another culture? A look at the research.
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Who Tells the Swarm Where To Go, Mr Jolles?
Animal swarms have fascinated us for a long time. How do they coordinate their behaviour, who leads, who follows? This is one of Jolle Jolles’ research fields: he focuses on sticklebacks.
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Which Tree Has the Greatest Cooling Effect in Summer, Mr Rahman?
When it gets too hot in street canyons in summer, many city dwellers head for the parks. No wonder: it can be up to five degrees cooler there than in the concrete jungle. The greenery works like air conditioning. But which trees have the greatest cooling effect? Plant ecologist Mohammad Rahman is in Munich trying to find out.
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Where the wild bees are
No one knows yet how the pandemic will impact the careers of young researchers. In this three-part series, we profile Feodor Lynen Research Fellows and show how they are dealing with the challenges facing them.
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Press Release
Where do legal studies stand? International conference on current challenges facing the field
26/2018
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Magazine Humboldt Kosmos
When Did Consumers Discover Their Power, Mr Trentmann?
Ever more people are making conscious purchasing decisions in order to drive changes in society. A new consumer awareness? “Not at all,” says historian Frank Trentmann.
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What’s next?| The Humboldt Foundation looks ahead
The Humboldt Foundation looks ahead – to the tasks awaiting the Foundation and its research network.
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What will we eat in 2050?
What will we eat in 2050? Food can be many things – but first and foremost food tells us the story of who we are and who we can be in the future. The participants of the Humboldt Residency Programme 2
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