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Articles published in Eurozine
Industry-funded and/or basic research?
Interview with Rainer Metternich and Helmut Schwarz
Does industry-funded research curtail scientific autonomy? Two senior members of the corporate and academic scientific communities discuss the pros and cons of applied and basic research. [more]
In the southwest of Moscow
The privileging of science in the former USSR has, in contemporary Russia, been replaced by political disinterest. Today, Russian scientists are turning away from "pure science" to applied research funded by corporations. [more]
Handwritten correspondence to mental exercise by email
Until halfway through the last century, scientists' handwritten correspondence prepared the ground for the publication of a scientific work. This stage in the process has shifted to the international conference, the organization of which is now conducted by email. What will this mean for archivists of the future? [more]
A new culture of science?
Or: The yearning for great men and big events
As Germany celebrates Einstein year, Ulrike Felt points out the ironies in attempts to popularize science. [more]
Building blocks for a theory of Jewish atonement
Are the celebrations around Einstein in Germany a possibility to integrate this great mind and public intellectual into German identity and to construct an acceptable past? [more]
Losing Einstein, celebrating Einstein
Jürgen Trabant draws attention to the fact that one of the tragic moments of intellectual history is connected to the person of Einstein: the passage of "mind" from one country to another. [more]
Ancient strategies of complexity
Inventing new spaces for women's identities through the prism of Ancient Greek philosophers. [more]
Tales of day and night
Martin Korte on science and its sometimes distorted transmission by the media. [more]