"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)
I have been to the Zander first time in February 2007 and had kept it in my memory as an expensive but worthwhile place. I came back in November 2008 with a party of 6 ( the same party that had dinner the night before in ; Sol y Sombra for a mere 110 €.) This time I wante to show my friends from Boston that there is also "fine dining".
Kirk Royal Paul-Lincke-Ufer 45 / Ecke Mariannenstr. 10999 Berlin
Ich bin jetzt zwei mal in diesem Restaurant gewesen, das sowohl fuer die Qualitaet als fuer die Preise ins obere Drittel der Berliner "Esstaetten" eingruppiert werden muss.
It is time to prohibit the process of patenting unmodified genes, and to invalidate, either by legislation or judicial action, all claims to unmodified genes
Following an article in the "Spiegel" 59% of all Spanish people believe in God in a traditional sense, 18% are not believers at all, whereas 74% of all Italians do believe in God in a tradional sense, whereas only 6 % are not believers. The numbers come from a survey conducted by the EC, 4 years ago.
What I liked: Barack Obama, in his inauguration speech mentioned non believers on the same level as Christians, Muslims, Jews and others.
This was a marvellous spring day! So I used the sunset hours for a walk through my neigbourhood "SO36". SO36 is the name of one of the most famous clubs in the area, but it is also used to indicate this part of Kreuzberg. Well, I crossed the border several times, the border between "Mitte" und "Kreuzberg", the border between what was until 20 years ago Berlin? Wild West and the eastern part behind the wall.
I would like to cite some of the most significant passages from the introduction:
"One of the things we love about science is that it is nothing if not argumentative. Both as a way of thinking and as a wellspring of novel ideas and products, science is a tumultuous truth-seeking process and even further, we contend, a revolutionary force for human liberation.
I was invited to participate in a workshop "Pathway to a European Career" from March 9-13 at Schloss Rauischholzhausen. The Workshop is organized by the International Research Training Group Giessen/Marbur-Moscow. The program is attached.
