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Bei der Betrachtung von Migration, Ankommen und Integration spricht man oft von Strukturen. Blickt man auf diese Prozesse vor Ort und wie sie sich gestalten, so fällt auf, dass einzelne Personen viel bewegen können. Strukturen, besonders in ländlichen Gebieten, sind oftmals Netzwerke aus besonders motivierten Personen, die sich dafür einsetzen, dass Ankommen und Integration vor Ort funktionieren.

I am in the process of revising my annual lecture to first year university students on the topic of “curly arrows”. I like to start my story in 1924, when Robert Robinson published the very first example as an illustration of why nitrosobenzene undergoes electrophilic bromination in the para position of the benzene ring.

Currently, English is the lingua franca of science. It wasn’t always that way, and there’s no reason to expect it always will be. A century ago, all the great physicists who wanted to be part of the quantum revolution went to study in Germany.

I first started writing this blog some weeks ago after I was lucky enough to be invited along to a review performance of the Broadway stage play, Good Night, and Good Luck.

Should a series be watched in production, broadcast, or some other order? Most viewers will never consider this question, only turning their minds to the order in which episodes are aired or queued up on a DVD or streaming service if parts of an ongoing story are shown out of sequence.

Since 2019, when The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) launched its first AI pilot project, we have been exploring how the Second Machine Age is reshaping learning.

Tired of the usual library and scholarly communication conferences in the US or Europe? You're in luck! In 2026, the Asia-Pacific region will host at least two top-class conferences (formerly hosted in US/Europe) that I highly recommend. Thanks for reading Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship!

Some time in 2023, Tom Kalil told me he thought it would be a good idea to carve out a chunk of time and get to work on some ARPA project histories.

Some time in 2023, Tom Kalil told me he thought it would be a good idea to carve out a chunk of time and get to work on some ARPA project histories. The ARPA model was proliferating, and Tom felt these pieces might find a ready audience of ARPA emulators and fans eager to make use of the actionable information. Tom, who was then at Schmidt Sciences and is now President of Renaissance Philanthropy, has good taste.

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