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"Unapplied science": A notion fit for the 21st century?
Ethical distinctions between basic and applied research are inappropriate in a world offering extraordinary ways to apply new knowledge, argues Günter Stock. We need to find alternative criteria for research, discarding old schemata with their many connotations. [more]
Images of age in change
The image and reputation of the aged correspond neither to their numeric representation in society nor to their economic power, writes Eva Birkenstock. The fastest growing demographic group lacks status, orientation and future resources. [more]
Science, ritual and initiation
After the assault by the class of '68, academic rituals are making a comeback. Tracing the "balloting rituals" of the Prussian Academy of Sciences back to Aristotle and Ovid, Karl-Heinz Kohl concludes that the '68ers succeeded only in creating the longing for new rituals. [more]
Art and science: An interdisciplinary approach
Not only artists but also scientists work with images, symbols and metaphors, draw on their intuition and make use of coincidence. How the humanities can inform a non-classical and non-reductionist approach to cancer research and living systems as a whole. [more]
On the biodiversity of science
The economic potential of Nobel Prize-winning discoveries has rarely been known or intended. A defence of the "aimlessness" of science and a call for a three-pronged system of universities, scientific societies and academies. [more]
Between Gutenberg Galaxy and World Wide Web
A two-tier system has developed in academic publishing on the Internet, with authors increasingly required to contribute to the costs of "prestige" publication. How can open-access improve its academic reputation, particularly in the humanities? [more]
Does all, all have to change?
The philologist Conrad Wiedemann remains sceptical of all the recent interest in a visual turn: "There is no need for a turn, but for continuity." [more]
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The privileging of science in the former USSR has, in contemporary Russia, been replaced by political disinterest.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 has shifted to the international conference, organized via 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]
Tales of day and night
Martin Korte on science and its sometimes distorted transmission by the media. [more]
Ancient strategies of complexity
Inventing new spaces for women's identities through the prism of Ancient Greek philosophers. [more]
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