Posts by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
(DIR) Post #AkbIhry5DQJubaaIqW by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-08-03T17:59:42Z
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@robotistry @steve For conference dinners, I have no good suggestion, I just avoid them like the plague. If you do have one and it's in a restaurant (seated at tables), get people to move (every second person moves three places to the left) after each course, so autists don't get stuck between two old professors.
(DIR) Post #AkbIhtaPCQZJcjWQDY by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-08-03T18:02:38Z
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@robotistry @steve These are a couple of ideas out of my head that I have done and tried at meetings of up to about 150 people. If you have more freedom and are not fixated on tehe "talk+Q&A+coffee break"-format, have creative sessions where people, for example, work out the main research questions and the main barriers in your field. Put Flipcharts in teh corners with appropriate questions and get people to walk around and discuss these.
(DIR) Post #AkgyjUDfePQ1OX82j2 by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-08-06T13:57:26Z
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@futurebird Interesting observation - you're right Harris looks (and sounds) young in the sense of being energetic and progressive and looking into the future, and old in the sense of being experienced and pragmatic. This is really a secret superpower. I do hope she wins (but I think the fight is not over and I've seen here in the UK with Brexit how opinion polls and analysts' expectations can be totally wrong).
(DIR) Post #AkgzRpEmrqifK3nFce by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-08-06T14:04:25Z
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@futurebird I don't know anything about Walz but when I saw the pic my first reaction also was "I thought she'd pick somebody younger".But then it's an interesting idea that the "boss" is younger than her "number 2", this reverses the traditional expectations much more than if she had picked some young guy.
(DIR) Post #Akh06dMjuYMWNMyKGm by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-08-06T14:13:00Z
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@futurebird Actually I realise now he's really only half a year older ... But she looks so much younger.Anyway, good team.
(DIR) Post #AoNDaLcUUPI2teTVHk by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-11-24T16:38:18Z
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@futurebird This is an interesting question... I'm fascinated by all the "perhaps it is ..." replies; the study of rock paintings/and carvings is full of "just so stories" and good reasons to be sceptical of them.For example, Bednarik (in the book "Myths about Rock Art") mentions an Australian researcher who studied Aboriginal art and when he much later had a chance to ask locals, he found that the overwhelming majority of his interpretations were completely wrong.1/n
(DIR) Post #AoNFGS17C9qCqzdIhs by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-11-24T16:41:53Z
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@futurebird So (as you suggest) we would really need to ask the creators. However, even then this might not help, because much knowledge is secret and only given to the initiated. Bednarik has the anecdote that he asked an Aboriginal artist "Why is the explanation you give me today so different from what you told me when we first met a few decades ago?" - "Because you weren't ready and didn't know what you know now!".2/n
(DIR) Post #AoNFGT3dKHRw55opGq by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-11-24T16:45:30Z
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@futurebird One thing to consider is that rock art is not the only kind of art, but the one that survived best. So for example there is the Venus of Brassempouy which is of similar age, or older, than many rock art sites, and shows a very skillfully carved face. So possibly people were able and willing to depict faces, but for some reason just not in rock art.3/nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Brassempouy
(DIR) Post #AoNFGTrcKRQqa7CkBE by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-11-24T16:48:12Z
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@futurebird Also I think that also in many of today's traditional societies human faces are shown in figurines, statues or masks and other objects made of wood which generally don't survive long.4/n
(DIR) Post #AoNFGUmKvYnnQ1k2aW by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-11-24T16:54:57Z
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@futurebird When I first read your thread, I remembered when I was looking through old photos of my journeys: I never made a picture of myself, just scenery and interesting objects, whereas today people would first make selfies. Back then it never occurred to me to make pics of myself; my friends back home would not be interested in my face but in what the scenery looked like. (This was before internet).No "taboo", it just wasn't the purpose of the photos.5/n
(DIR) Post #AoNG8VRueNNl8UwWDA by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-11-24T16:57:24Z
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@futurebird I'm not sure I'm going anywhere in this thread other than to say you made a really interesting observation, but that perhaps it is simply impossible to know and there may not really be any deep or meaningful reason behind it.But certainly worth thinking about!6/6
(DIR) Post #AoNG8WphVQ0LQZ51vc by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-11-24T17:04:03Z
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@futurebird An additional thought on post 2 ("secret" knowledge, "you didn't know what you know now") - of course we do that too and would explain, for example atoms to a child or lay person in totally different ways than to a physics student.So "secret knowledge" and "taboos" are labels that are easily attached to traditional societies, but might sometimes not be the correct way of thinking about it, I wonder.
(DIR) Post #AoNGuvnK0CF8kE30Ma by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-11-24T17:15:38Z
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@futurebird Indeed. But calling it "taboo" gives it a kind of supernatural aspect, as if there is a belief that evil spirits will punish you or something like that. We don't use the word for Western "rational" culture, even though we also have many things that are inappropriate or unacceptable (at least in some situations).
(DIR) Post #AoNHUQUdrC645fEfK4 by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2024-11-24T17:22:03Z
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@futurebird Again, Robert Bednarik in his book (which I really recommend) gives an example that rock art of various animals is actually fairly recent and was simply made by shepherd boys who had to sit for hours watching sheep and were terribly bored, so they started to scratch various objects into the rock, including a steam lokomotive.
(DIR) Post #ArHEYSTHxxYxQkQja4 by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2025-02-19T12:57:11Z
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@futurebird @leon_p_smith @shapr Oooh, there's a whole science behind drawing bicycles.Here's an interesting article: https://road.cc/content/blog/90885-science-cycology-can-you-draw-bicycleAnd here's an artist who created 3-d-images of peoples' drawings :mastolol: https://www.fastcompany.com/3059089/it-turns-out-its-almost-impossible-to-draw-a-bicycle
(DIR) Post #AurVPDMNfh04tRlbGq by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2025-06-06T18:09:07Z
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Die neu gegründete Afrikanische Weltraumagentur AfSA kommt langsam in Gang.https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01792-8
(DIR) Post #AxfNA6UVvHPy0oi0qe by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2025-08-29T05:22:35Z
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@heluecht @BlumeEvolution Wer verdient denn jetzt bei PayPal?Ich fürchte, wir sind an dem Punkt, an dem man überhaupt keine US-Techunternehmen mehr nutzen sollte, weil da überall irgendwelche Antidemokraten dran verdienen. Leider haben wir in Europa und vor allem in Deutschland Computer seit Anfang an verschlafen; schon in den 1990ern war großes Gejammere, warum alle Computerfirmen in den US sind, aber es wurde auch nix konsequent getan, um das zu ändern.
(DIR) Post #AzOiv26lsF4Ics10KG by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2025-10-20T10:37:13Z
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@futurebird Is it not just a way to get rid of a lot of money? In Saudi Arabia there is soooo much money and everything that's being built there is totally oversized and uneconomic. A friend just travelled through Saudi Arabia and everything is just weird. For The Line and similar projects they first had to build completely new normal cities just to house all the workers.It's not meant to be practical, but to show wealth.
(DIR) Post #AzebXTjA2aXvJdJ1Rw by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2025-10-28T02:29:54Z
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@futurebird I bought a house in Scotland and the bathroom had a neon-green fluffy carpet in it, which I ripped out immediately.
(DIR) Post #B1LW6rGIPFEB4MhGxk by StephanMatthiesen@troet.cafe
2025-12-17T16:56:20Z
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@bmi Dobrindt kann einen Schraubenzieher bedienen?