The end of the year is approaching rapidly, and as usual the last pre-Christmas week is being used to tie up all those loose ends, that had been left untended during the last quarter of the year. Let me use this moment to wish you all a wonderful holiday season, with lots of cookies, regeneration,Continue reading “Merry Christmas ! (…and some 2025 Aspirations)”
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Research under changed conditions?
This Thursday and Friday, 14-15 November, the GWTF, the Gesellschaft für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung, is hosting her yearly meeting in my old hometown of Dortmund in the Ruhr Area in the western parts of Germany. The overarching topic will be about how we can conduct research in a changed environment. Here the precarity of manyContinue reading “Research under changed conditions?”
AfD-protests in Germany
Today many brave people are demonstrating in Germany against the fascist AfD (Alternative for Germany). It would be great if the party could be forbidden on the basis of extreme rightwing propaganda, which denounces the right to live for everyone. Greetings especially go out to the protesters in Dortmund, Gießen and Göttingen. I hope theContinue reading “AfD-protests in Germany”
Today Germany quits nuclear power…
…and ends an era which once was characterised by the promise of abundant cheap energy that was shattered during the disaster at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 and buried after Fukushima-Daiichi in 2011. Nuclear energy in this Central European country has always been a contested issue, and the scale of it made it inevitableContinue reading “Today Germany quits nuclear power…”
Achim Klüppelberg 