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Why do we use references? This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part of my yearly cleanup, I've published it without finishing it. It might not be finished or have other problems. I've recently found the company mentorium.de. Their business model seems to be to help people … Read More »

Extraordinary Materials Line-X Line-X is a protective polymer coating. Vantablack Vantablack is a substance made of vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays and is the blackest artificial substance known, absorbing up to 99.965% of radiation in the visible spectrum. (Wikipedia) Ultra-Ever Dry Superhydrophobic coating Sodium polyacrylate Superabsorbent polymer () Read More »

Paper List The following includes my reading list and a list of papers organized in tracks which I can recommend to read. Most (all?) of them are about machine learning and neural networks. Reading List I am aware of the following papers and I want to read them ... when I have time … Read More »

Tools for Academia When you're studying or researching, there a quite a couple of tools which come in very handy in various situations. In the last 5 years at university I got to know quite a few, so I want to share my list with you. Discovery Sometimes, I just like to stumble … Read More »

How to find new Papers A couple of people who are just participating in their first seminar might ask themselves how you can find interesting new publications (papers). I would like to shed some light on it. Initial Research The hardest part is when you're new to a field. You don't know which journals are … Read More »

Citizen Science Projects "Citizen Science Projects" are research projects that crowdsource a part of the research work. The idea behind that is quite simple: Some tasks of researchers are very simple. Everybody can do them. I think some of them are a great example of Gamification. Galaxy Zoo Galaxy Zoo is a crowdsourced … Read More »

Reference Management with JabRef Keeping track of papers, articles and books or more general sources you can cite is a task you will have to tackle when you're writing your thesis. One way to store information is via BibTeX files. BibTeX is a reference management software that is used together with LaTeX. If you're … Read More »

Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 Did you know how the election for a Nobel Prize works? Have you ever heard of a CCD? I guess you know fiberoptics? I've found this clip via forschungspreisen.de, a german blog about science. See also List of Nobel laureates List of Nobel laureates by country List of Nobel … Read More »

Short Educational Clips Here are some clips which are interesting for education. For example, one of then explains the history of the English language in about 10 minutes. 60-Second Adventures in Thought United Kingdom, Great Britain and England History of English Electric Vocabulary DNA Song Wakko's 50 State Capitols Yakko's World The Monty … Read More »