insightLMU - 2009 Podcast
1) Humanities and Cultural Studies: Bavaria's foreign relations
Bavaria has participated in diplomatic relations with the rest of Europe since the 16th century, and these contacts eventually gave rise to an astonishingly extensive international network. The histor...Show More
2) Law, Economics and Social Sciences: Little pests
Bullies are school kids who make life hell for other kids using physical or psychological aggression. Developmental psychologist Dr. Mechthild Schäfer has conducted several studies that explain impor...Show More
3) Natural Sciences: And the winner is - Goliath!
Some animal species produce – at great energetic cost – sperm cells that are longer than the male organism itself. It is not known how old, in evolutionary terms, this phenomenon is. Using a newly dev...Show More
4) Interdisciplinary Insights: Tracing global change
For the past ten years researchers at LMU Munich have been engaged in intensive research on the fundamental social structural transformations which Western industrial societies are currently undergoin...Show More
5) Life Sciences: Seeign in the dark, hearing rasps in the grass
There are only three ingredients for evolutionary success: find enough to eat, avoid being eaten and − above all − reproduce. In its restless search for ways to achieve these goals, evolution also act...Show More
6) insightLMU, issue 4, 2009
insightLMU is the international edition of the LMU Munich newsletter. Supported by experienced education and science journalists, insightLMU provides up-to-date information on new University developme...Show More
7) Humanities and Cultural Studies: Christian ethics at the two-degree tipping point
How can the needs of today’s generation be satisfied while simultaneously not unjustly restricting the developmental prospects for future generations? That is the core question of all deliberations th...Show More
8) Natural Sciences: A compound with many facets
Organometallic compounds are used in the production of plastics, fertilizers and even drugs. Chemists working with Professor Paul Knochel have now developed a new method that allows even highly sensit...Show More
9) Life Sciences: Dangerous bodyguards
One of the most important tasks of the immune system is to identify what is foreign and what is self. If the body starts to attack its own cells or tissues instead of pathogens, then the result could ...Show More
10) Law, Economics and Social Sciences: Navigating through the airport maze
Airports are worlds unto themselves, worlds where a beginner can easily get lost. Most passengers rush to their departure gate as quickly as possible, only to sit there for hours waiting for their fli...Show More
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