Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Instructions how to kill Hitler

This set of instructions will tell you  how to kill Hitler in a few simple steps.


Before you start, make sure you have got all the materials needed:


- everything you need for building a time machine which is able bring you back again.
- a still operating gun, that has been commonly used during World War One
- a still operating gun, that has been commonly used in 1933
- a still operating bomb, that has been commonly used in 1933


If you got all your materials assembled, then move on to step one.


  1. Use the material for building a time machine and build a time machine. Be careful that it is a time machine that will be able to bring you back.
  1. Choose a time in which you want to kill Hitler. This set of instructions is valid for 1915 or 1933.


  1. If you decide to kill Hitler in 1915, then move on to step four.
    If you decide to kill Hitler in 1933, then move on to step six.


  1. You have decided to kill Hitler in 1915.
    Take the gun from 1915 and use the time machine to travel to 1915.


  1. Now go to the battlefield where Hitler is currently fighting the French, take your gun from 1915 and shoot Hitler.


  1. You have decided to kill Hitler in 1933. Pack the gun and bomb from 1933 and use the time machine to travel to 1933.


  1. Once again you have two options: you can either develop your own plan, or help someone who is already working on a plan how to kill Hitler.
    If you decide to develop your own plan, move on to step eight.
    If you decide to help someone who is already working on a plan how to kill Hitler, move on to step 12.


  1. You decided to develop your own plan, how to kill Hitler. Now, figure out a way how to get close to Hitler.


  1. Once you are close enough to Hitler, decide on how to kill him. You can either use the gun from 1933, or the bomb from 1933.
    If you decide to kill Hitler with the gun, move on to step ten.
    If you decide to kill Hitler with the bomb, move on to step 11.


  1. You decided to kill Hitler with the gun. Now, take the gun from 1933 and shoot Hitler.


  1. You decided to kill Hitler with the bomb. Plant the bomb from 1933 and blow Hitler up.


  1. You decided to help someone who is already working on a plan, how to kill Hitler. Find Karl Lutter and his friends from the KDP and help them prepare Hitler’s assassination. Steps a. and b. will tell you how to do that.


    1. Join Lutter and his KDP friends.
    2. Stop the people who want to betray Lutter from doing that.


  1. Together with Lutter and his KDP friends kill Hitler in Königsberg.


Congratulations! If you carefully followed these Instructions, you have just succeeded in killing Hitler. Now here is a little tip: HURRY BACK HOME BEFORE ANYBODY NOTICES WHAT YOU JUST DID!!!!!!

These instructions are based on this document: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1mUz3PXJoI4n6poNeGAjNHj18yRbvX0g0OuNN28hyw5I/edit

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Analysis of Instructions

We looked at these instructions on how to make a camera lucida and rated how helpful we thought they were. 




At first sight, these instructions on how to build a camera lucida seem to be chaotic. We think this is mainly because they do not look like the instructions we are used to. Clearly numbered steps which would make it much easier to follow are missing completely, let alone an explicit list of materials needed to build the camera lucida. The reader has to figure out all this on his own. Even though these instructions do not follow the classic rules of how instructions should look, they still contain all the necessary information. The drawings, for example, indicate the needed materials. By combining the information from the drawings and the additional instructional texts, it should be possible to build a functional camera lucida based on these instructions. In retrospect, the instructions would need some work without doubt, but yet we have to admit that they turned out more helpful than expected at first glance.

Monday, May 5, 2014

Nano Food Abstracts

Applications and implications of nanotechnologies for the food sector

Abstract


A review of current and projected nanotechnology-derived food ingredients, food additives and food contact materials is presented in relation to potential implications for consumer safety and regulatory controls. Nanotechnology applications are expected to bring a range of benefits to the food sector, including new tastes, textures and sensations, less use of fat, enhanced absorption of nutrients, improved packaging, traceability and security of food products. The review has shown that nanotechnology-derived food and health food products are set to grow worldwide and, moreover, a variety of food ingredients, additives, carriers for nutrients/supplements and food contact materials is already available in some countries. The current level of applications in the European food sector is at an elementary stage; however, it is widely expected that more and more products will be available in the EU over the coming years. The toxicological nature of hazard, likelihood of exposure and risk to consumers from nanotechnology-derived food/food packaging are largely unknown and this review highlights major gaps in knowledge that require further research. A number of uncertainties and gaps in relevant regulatory frameworks have also been identified and ways of addressing them proposed.

Comments:

In my opinion this abstract has all it needs.

Purpose: Nanotechnology is already used very often in food, and this is going to increase over the next few years. Unfortunately its effects on consumer are not yet scrutinized sufficiently.

Scope: nanotechnology-derived food ingredients,additives and contact materials 

Methods: reviewing what is already being done and what is missing

Findings: There are major gaps...

Recommendation: ...that require further research.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02652030701744538


Consumer choices for nano-food and nano-packaging in France and Germany


Abstract

An experiment with different information treatments was conducted in France and Germany to evaluate consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for food nanotechnology focusing on two applications: nano-fortification with vitamins and nano-packaging. Results show that many consumers in both countries are reluctant to accept nanotechnology in food. Being confronted with general information on nanotechnology, econometric estimations of WTP reveal that French consumers are more reluctant to accept nano-packaging, whereas German consumers are less inclined to accept nano-fortification compared with the respective other application. More detailed information on nanotechnology has a negative impact when voluntary access to relevant information is assured.

Comments:


The information in the abstract makes the paper seem very interesting, but unfortunately the text itself is not written cohesively which makes it look a bit unprofessional. Maybe it is just a bad translation, obviously this paper was written in either French or German, but eitherway professional scientists should be able to identify a bad translation. This makes me wonder whether or not the whole paper is worth reading. Other than that, this abstract includes all the typical contents, except for the recommendation.

Purpose: to find out whether or not people are willing to pay for food nanotechnology

Scope: nanotechnology-derived food ingredients,additives and contact materials, France and Germany

Methods: an experiment was conducted 

Findings: Consumers in general are reluctant to accept nanotechnology in food, however the Germans slightly less than the French.

http://erae.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/1/73.short





  




Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Description of the Photograph "Migrant Mother"

The photograph portrays a middle-aged migrant mother with her three little children, all four of them with gaunt bodies. Clad in worn-out and dirty clothing, their outer appearance indicates a difficult life. At the bottom of the picture an infant is lying on the mother’s lap with its head resting on her left arm, where its face is half-hidden from the camera. The two older children have turned away from the camera. On the right side of the picture one child is clinging to its mother’s shoulder and burying its face in her neck whereas the one on the left side tries to hide itself behind the mother’s shoulder. The center of the photograph is occupied by the mother who is exuding an aura of sadness. Her worn and weather-beaten face bears witness to everything she has gone through. All her worries are apparent in the deep lines that furrow her face. The whole photograph leaves the observer with a strong feeling of sympathy, rooting for a better life for the mother and her three little children.





Dorothea Lange "Migrant Mother"

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Nanotechnology - Nanofood: An Introduction

What is Nanotechnology?

Nanotechnology deals with the creation or manipulation of materials on a very small scale, the nanometre (nm). Do give you an Idea what we are talking about: One of your hairs is approximately 70,000 nm in diameter, whereas a nanoparticle has a size somewhere between 0.5 and 5 nm.


The next question you are probably asking yourself by now is: If these particles are so small, what can they actually do? Actually these nanoparticles are quite capable. Compared to bigger particles they have special chemical and physical properties like, for example, higher reactivity. Because they have a relatively large surface area.





What is Nano-Food?
While there are nanoparticles naturally found in food like milk, the term nano-food is generally used to describe food that has been in contact with nanotechnology. Even though nanotechnology in food is rather new, there are already nanotechnological influenced products in our supermarket aisles like ketchup, which often contains silica dioxide particles to maintain the consistency.



What scientists are working on right now:
- nanoparticles in mayonnaise, in order to make it less fat
- nanoparticles in packaging, so the milk carton turns red when the milk is no longer drinkable  


Why is Nano-Food interesting?
Everybody has to eat. That alone should be enough reason for us to find nano-food highly fascinating. Whether we like it or not, whether it is healthy or not, whether it changes the food world completely or not: It is going play a huge part in our future. 



Sources:
http://www.hse.gov.uk/nanotechnology/what.htmhttp://www.theguardian.com/what-is-nano/what-you-need-know-about-nano-food#start-of-commentshttp://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/wait-theres-nanotechnology-in-my-food-16510737
http://www.planet-wissen.de/natur_technik/forschungszweige/nanotechnologie/nanofood.jsp





Friday, March 21, 2014

Say no to ADA's!!!



PSA against after-death avatars – TV commercial:

1st scene: Funeral of a young girl. Everybody offers their condolences to the family.
The camera zooms in on her best friend standing on the side, separated from all the other people. She obviously is very sad and pale, no tears. She looks straight to the grave and talks to nobody.

2nd scene: We see the same girl in her room looking through the facebook page of her dead best friend. Suddenly she notices an eterni.me add on the side. She clicks on the link.

3rd scene: We can see the girl, now happy again, and the after-death avatar of her best friend walking in a park. The other people in the park, some of them are familiar from the funeral, look at her like she needs to be in the closed psychiatric wing. The camera zooms out and we see other couples like her and her best friend.

4th scene: It is night, all the post-death avatars from before and some others have now changed into zombie like creatures. They obviously just slaughtered a whole city and are on the move to the next one.

5th scene: Black. In a white fond it says across the screen: “Stop the apocalypse! Say no to ADA’s!!!”

Friday, March 14, 2014

A day in the life of... mine - a picture chronicle



200 decibel loud snoring woke me up. I cautiously collected my stuff and left the hostel. At nine am, Galway seemed to be just waking up: shops were being opened, waste bins were being emptied and the streets were being cleaned up. Two hours of sightseeing later, I had been to the St. Nicholas Cathedral, walked down Kirwan’s Lane and almost missed the not so special Spanish Arch. Now that the sun was standing high, I crossed the bridge and went to the beach to kill the remaining hour until my bus towards Dublin would leave. Smiling towards the sun, I had to think of Philipp, who had promised me nothing but bad weather. Only seconds later, I needed all my strength standing against the strong wind. At the same time, I got slapped in the face by heavy rain, hail and salt water. I found myself soaking wet within ten minutes, which left me no other choice than to return to the hostel and beg for them to let me into their bathroom again. Inspecting the damage, I gave up and pulled on the only try piece of clothing left: my pyjamas. Three and a half hour later, everyone on the backed Friday afternoon bus had asked me about my clothes.