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Arts & Humanities

Lord Beaverbrook, the Business Tycoon Who Loved Tomato Soup

William Maxwell Aitken, also known as Lord Beaverbrook, was one of the most influential figures in British politics and society in the first half of the 20th Century – and he had a little-known culinary passion.

The Editors | 12.06.2017

Arts & Humanities

Was Karl Marx Right All Along?

150 years after the publication of his most important book, Capital, Karl Marx’s works are still worth reading – but we shouldn’t jump to the conclusion that today’s economic realities are proving Marx right once and for all.

Marco Iorio | 29.05.2017

Science & Technology

The Fall of the Apple and the General Theory of Relativity

Can the basic concepts of the general theory of relativity be illustrated geometrically with almost no math? To answer this question, let’s reconsider Newton’s well-known problem of the falling apple.

Holger Goebel | 24.05.2017

Science & Technology

The Transylvanian Rocket Scientist Who Invented Space Travel and Got Funded by a Movie Director

In the 1920s, the founding father of rocketry and astronautics, Hermann Oberth, struggled hard to realize his visionary ideas. Having his dissertation on rocket science rejected, Oberth convinced a film studio to fund his plans to build a real rocket as the advisor for a science fiction film in an unorthodox private public partnership.

Joachim Kehr | 01.05.2017

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