"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything..." (Richard Feynman)
The German Parliament yesterday has decided a law about the "living will", "testamento biologico" in Italian. An "advanced directive" (living will) is now completely binding for doctor, hospitals and relatives. Background in German at.https://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/politik/130415/index.php.
That sounds banal, but it is not if... If you get very young leek. Saturday my veggie-monger at Piazza Vittorio had this fabulous leek, only twice as thick as spring onions and with an incredible fragrance. Also the carots were tasty and not as the many pinky water concentrates you get often.
You cannot do this often. You need some friend, who comes back from the tropics and brings you a fresh coconut. Cheers to Modesta, our Phillipine cleaning lady, who brought a fresh coconut from her own tree at home.
OK, I called it Curry, but there is not an ounce of Curry Pulver in it, instead:
- a good amount of ginger
- not too much garlic
- a bunch of spring onions
- a tomatoe
- some thai chilli
- fresh coriander
if you are adventurous enough also capers and peppers (not too much, but so it gets really fusion)
I am participant in the workshop “ICTs transforming agricultural science, research and technology generation”, which takes place during the Science Forum (https://www.scienceforum2009.nl/) June 16-17.
Attached is the thinkpiece, which I am delivering together with Valeria Pesce from the Global Forum for Agricultural Research.
Das ist eine kleine Weinbar an der Koertestrasse 18. Biologische Weine, um die 2 Euro/Glas (0.1). Einige Tapas zwischen 1.50 € und 3€, Ich bestellte Ziegenkaese im Speckmantel, und was ich bekam, waren nicht tapas, sondern eine Portion, 3 Stuecke, das haette auch reichen koennen wir ein kleines Dinner. Als Wein wurde mir ausserhalb der Karte ein Weissburgunder aus Rheinhessen angeboten. Da ich gerade auf der Jagd nach Weissburgundern bin, habe ich akzeptiert. Wundervoll gegessen und gut getrunken.
It will freely transplant knowledge between the sciences and the humanities, and will focus on connecting the reductionist fact to our actual experience.”
An eine Stelle, wo man nicht gerade ein gutes Restaurant erwartet und wo man vielleichts nachts nicht einmal gerne allein herumlaeuft liegt Mittmann's Restaurant. Ich war da so haeufig mit dem Fahrad vorbeigefahren und irgenwie hatte mich das Menu gereizt, Kalbsnieren, mit Zwiebeln. Z.B. Ich kam an gegen 22 Uhr nach einem wundervollen aperitivo bei. Und zunaechst wollte mich ein grummeliger glatykoepfiger Kellner gleich wieder herauswerfen. Er wurde dann aber von einer netten blonden Kollegen des Besseren belehrt und ja, ich koennte noch etwas zu essen haben.
From March 24-28 we met in Addis Abbaba for the first face2face meeting of the CIARD Content Management Taskforce. Background material on CIARD is at https://www.ciard.net/index.php?id=388. I see the CIARD initiative as the most important community of practice to achieve a collaborative space in Agricultural Science and Technology Information.
Hey, Economics Geniuses! What Happened? - BusinessWeek The business week articles treats how the world economists failed to predict the finance crisis of the last year. One of the reader commented: " so what? economics is not science, but philosophy and you cannot get any relevant guidance out of that". This is widespread opinion, linguistically well expressed in English, where "science" is only applied for physics, chemistry, biology and the likes, whereas all the other stuff is labeled as "humanities".
