A lot has been said and written in the last years about the promise of online connectivity and open access, about the potential of borderless communication, the power of crowdsourcing, Wikinomics, and the wisdom of the masses. What does that mean for science? I have been wondering, will this impact the way we do research? [...]

The other day I came across this lovely website We Feel Fine , “an exploration of human emotion, in six movements” by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar.

We Feel Fine scans blog posts for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling,” if available they extract age, gender and location of the blogger, and [...]

“Please present the free Motion Mountain Physics Text and yourself!” Sabine wrote me some time ago. I answered that I first wanted to put the new version online. That is now done; it can be downloaded at www.motionmountain.net.
For a long time I carried the dream to tell the story of physics in the way I [...]

It is Christmas! Time to take a break from the blogosphere. But before you turn off the computer, we have a quiz for you to finish our seasonal program. Here we go:
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The above encodes a German expression, if you type the result into this online dictionary you get the English translation.

As last year, the [...]

It is Christmas! Time to take a break from the blogosphere. But before you turn off the computer, we have a quiz for you to finish our seasonal program. Here we go:
87-8-2 26-53-68-73-32
The above encodes a German expression, if you type the result into this online dictionary you get the English translation.

As last year, the [...]