Stone Age bird hunting
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This is how many different bird species people hunted around the world's oldest stone circle 11,000 years ago.
What we inherit
Heritage - a term with many dimensions: The unequal distribution of wealth, traces of evolution in our genes, the risk of hereditary diseases, Shakespeare's legacy and how we prepare children for the world. This and more in this issue!
THE INTERPRETER
Some scientific terms manage to make their way into everyday speech. Here, we ask LMU researchers to tell us what they mean – to define them, and to outline how they became popular.
Felix Havermann on “carbon dioxide removal (CDR)”
The LMU geographer explains which methods might be able to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Oliver Jahraus on “Kafkaesque”
LMU's Vice President and literary scholar Oliver Jahraus explains why Kafka and his work do not necessarily have to be Kafkaesque.
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Olivia Merkel on "nanocarriers"
The Professor for Drug Delivery explains how nanocarriers safely deliver pharmaceuticals to their desired destination in the body.
Read moreVisiting LMU's Shakespeare Library
Director Claudia Olk presents the only collection of literature on Shakespeare and early modern English literature on the European continent.
3:10 Min | 2 Oct 2020
The big EINSICHTEN-Interview
Crops in planetary stress test
Global change is pushing the Earth to its limits. Geographer Marianela Fader and biologist Dario Leister discuss how nature and agriculture are adapting, and being adapted, to changing habitats.
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More than a question of origin
In the grand interview from EINSICHTEN magazine, Antoinette Maget Dominicé, Uta Werlich, and Philipp Schorch talk about how anthropological museums can tell stories about the world in the future, against the backdrop of the restitution debate.
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Molecular gastronomy
Origin of life: What was the recipe for the "Ursuppe" from which life emerged? LMU chemists Thomas Carell and Oliver Trapp, and physicist Dieter Braun, discuss the early steps in the evolution of life some four billion years ago.
Read moreFOCUS: Call of the wild - What nature asks of us
Climate crisis and species extinction have become ever-present threats, not only for humans. They endanger non-human nature in our environment as well as outside the engineered world - in the wilderness. But what do we see in this term anyway? An analysis.
Long process of taming
The path to the livestock we know today from their wild ancestors was a long one. Paleoanatomist Joris Peters studies the rich and varied relationship between human and animals, that shaped both. A portrait
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Childhood in the jungle
Do children who grow up surrounded by untamed wilds develop a different concept of nature to Western urban kids? Anthropologist Francesca Mezzenzana is exploring what the consequences are.
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The first dropout
Living in and with the wilderness: Literary scholar Klaus Benesch on the brilliant author and philosopher Henry David Thoreau and his influence on today’s world-weary generation
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The science behind the data
Wobbly earth axis
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ROMY, the world's only ring laser, can measure deviations in the alignment of the Earth's axis with an accuracy of one arc second.
Infectious multiplication
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This is how many daughter cells the parasite Toxoplasma gondii can form in a single host cell.