Einsichten Echt Jetzt - Künstlich, Natürlich: Die Grenzen verschwimmen

Really?

Natural, artificial: the boundaries are blurring. In this issue, we look at machines that learn rare languages, genetically adapted crops and the triumph of automated stock market trading.

Yurts in the Mongolian steppe are now equipped with satellite reception and solar panels.

From the steppe to the city

A social transformation is underway in Mongolia, as many nomadic pastoralists move to urban areas. Geographer Lukas Lehnert investigates what this means for the environment and ecosystems.

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Portrait of PD Dr. Barbara Cludius

“When success dictates self-worth”

When does wanting to do well become unwell? Barbara Cludius researches the propensity for perfectionism. In our EINSICHTEN interview she explains how a harmful thought construct is related to various mental disorders.

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Polyglot machines

How artificial intelligence learns the rich variety of human languages: Hinrich Schütze, computational linguist at LMU, researches multilingual software that can do small languages.

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Desiccated maize, Brandenburg, early September 2022

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.

Crops in planetary stress test

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.

The interpreter: Felix Havermann explains CDR

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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The interpreter: Oliver Jahraus on kafkaesque

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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The interpreter: Olivia Merkel on “nanocarriers”

Olivia Merkel on "nanocarriers"

The Professor for Drug Delivery explains how nanocarriers safely deliver pharmaceuticals to their desired destination in the body.

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Cultural Heritage: „We’re making time visible“

Drones over Heloros: Nicola Lercari investigates historical sites with state-of-the-art remote sensing methods.

Cultural Heritage: „We’re making time visible“

The noise of money

Trading on milliseconds: LMU researcher Ryan Riordan investigates how the forward march of ultra-fast computer-based trading affects securities markets.

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Campaigning for number one

Sociologist Carsten Schwemmer researches the world of influencers. If you think influencing is all about fitness and makeup, you would be mistaken. The profession has become politicized – with various potential consequences, good and ill.

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