Archive for July, 2009
Nazim Hikmek: Credentials
Posted by admin in Poetry and Politics, Uncategorized on July 30, 2009
Nazim Hikmek: His life
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Scientists talking about Wilsede
Posted by admin in Science for Kids and Students on July 10, 2009
Impressions from Wilsede Meetings, 2008
Fritz Heider´s Balance Theory
Posted by admin in Poetry and Politics on July 9, 2009
Balance Theory in short:
my friend’s friend is my friend
my friend’s enemy is my enemy
my enemy’s friend is my enemy
my enemy’s enemy is my friend
Heider’s Balance Theory (1958)
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Balance Theory is a motivational theory of attitude change proposed by Fritz Heider, which conceptualizes the consistency motive as a drive toward psychological balance. [...]
Bob Gallo: Discussion with students, Hamburg – Heidelberg
Posted by admin in Science for Kids and Students on July 9, 2009
Discussion with R. Gallo, Heidelberg 2006
EHU with Anatoli Mikhailov
Posted by admin in Academic Freedom on July 9, 2009
Prof. Dr. Anatoli Mikhailov, Rector of the EHU (European Humanities University), RCDS meeting, 2007
Focus Belarus – Study in an enclosed country
Tim Hunt in school
Posted by admin in Science for Kids and Students on July 9, 2009
Tim Hunt in school, Hamburg 2007
Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch
Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch (russisch Мстислав Леопольдович Ростропович, wiss. Transliteration Mstislav Leopol’dovič Rostropovič; * 27. März 1927 in Baku; † 27. April 2007 in Moskau) war ein russischer Cellist, Dirigent, Pianist und Humanist. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Cellisten aller Zeiten.
Rostropovich in Berlin 1989
Nazim Hikmek
Posted by admin in Poetry and Politics on July 9, 2009
Nazim Hikmek
TODAY IS SUNDAY
Today is Sunday.
Today, for the first time,
they took me out into the sun
and for the first time in my life
I looked at the sky
amazed that it was so far
and so blue
and so wide.
I stood without moving
and then respectfully sat on the black earth,
pressed my back against the wall.
Now, not even a thought [...]
Nobelprize for peace: Bertha von Suttner
Posted by admin in Poetry and Politics on July 9, 2009
Bertha von Suttner, Nobelprice 1905
Bertha von Suttner , Nobel Price for peace 1905
“Bertha von Suttner deliverd her lecture , dressed in black , her voice husky with emotion, using no contrived appeals, no gesture , no change of facial expression”
Oslo Aftenposten , Apri l 19, 1906
The Evolution of the Peace Movement
The stars of eterna l [...]