Category Archives: Science

Effects of a vegan diet on child development

Recently, I had a discussion with a colleague about the effects of a vegan diet on child development. Being a vegetarian for more than a decade and becoming a (semi-strict) vegan in recent years, and not having a child, I had some feelings about the topic but little knowledge. Thus, I checked the scientific literature. Here is what I learned.

Last Christmas — Scientist Edition

December 2012 (I think) was a very special time of my PhD studies, a time of unspeakable pain, but also of great joy, fun, and laughter. The reason for this emotional roller coaster was a challenge: Listening at least 100 times to the song Last Christmas from Wham! before the Christmas break. We made it, and we even came up with some alternative lyrics. Here they are!

TiP 2: Classical Mechanics and Clocks

This is a post of the Time in Physics (TiP) series. Time can be viewed as correlation of motions inside a physical system. With the help of a runner, a clock, and balls on a billiard table we can replace the problematic concept of Newtonian time with something that can exists not only in the world of large objects, but also in the weird quantum world of tiny particles.