- “… because woman.” Seriously?
- “Accidental” Discoveries, or rather: “Serendipitous Observations”
- “No, thank you.” is a full sentence.
- “When all around is chaos, when everyone is driven to the brink of insanity … relax.”
- (No longer a) Recommendation: Freedomain Radio
- A “Strange Days”/”Google Glass” Like Perspective on Sexism/Gender
- A (down-voted) comment on dealing with troublesome social situations
- A (more or less) creative solution to the trolley problem
- A Comment on Two Abusive and Unethical Experiments (Milgram & Stanford Prison Experiments)
- A Creative Solution Regarding Consent to Organ Donation
- A Different Social Media Strategy
- A different view on Black America: Larry Elder
- A few comments about (visiting a) Ballet
- A Few Further Thoughts on Covid
- A few interesting podcast episodes
- A Few Practical Tips for Visiting a Ballet Performance
- A good hunter waits (or: why you shouldn’t chase ambulances but leave your note at the hospital)
- A Life Not Written Down
- A Litmus Test of Equality
- A plan B for when your blog might vanish suddenly
- A short comment on computer games, violent and otherwise
- A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. Sleuths however …
- A Tip for Finding Some Creative Solutions: Remove Something Even if it Does Seem Essential
- A view on society (also: sex/gender)
- A Warning of Patreon
- Accurate Data … no matter the story
- Activism — to die for or to live for?
- Activism … and Taste?
- Addendum to “The Lab” by the Office of Research Integrity
- Advising Grad Students in Good Faith (and What Every Grad Student Should be able to Get)
- Alcoholism and Spiritual Transformations
- Allowing Children to Have Adventures
- Allowing for excellence or enforcing sameness
- An attempt at more-or-less creatively hacking diets
- An over-emphasis on Utilitarianism in Ethics, esp. in so-called «extraordinary situations»
- An UN Controlled Earth makes for really scary Sci-Fi in “The Expanse”
- And if you are not willing … (Covid)
- And just like that, Covid is … gone?
- Another Comment on Oxford Union Society’s “Freedom of Speech and Right to Offend” Debate
- Are you happy with your life? And what are your skills?
- Arguing with the Status Quo
- Attributions
- Bad Data, Worse Consequences
- Beautiful Example of Fan Service: CD PROJECT RED’s 10 Year Witcher Anniversary
- Beautiful example of how socialism doesn’t work
- Beautiful graphic novel by Scott McCloud: «The Sculptor»
- Beautiful illustration of the “Thought Police and Political Correctness in Modern Academia” lecture by Gad Saad
- Beautiful Scene from “The Shawshank Redemption”
- Biases in Reporting Research: Or, how you can screw 1/3 of the affected population
- Blast from the Past #2 – Ainran
- Blast from the Past #3 – A Book of Life
- Blast from the Past #4: The Girl Who Played with the Wolves
- Blast from the Past — The 80s
- Blockchain Explained (German Video)
- Book (semi-)recommendation: Ordinary Men
- Book Recommendation: “Curse of the High IQ” by Aaron Clarey
- Book Recommendation: “SJWs Always Lie” by Vox Day
- Career in Academia vs. Burn out in a Business Consultancy Job: Hey Academia, maybe you’re doing something wrong, too!
- Caring to much — A few thoughts on Haidt’s moral foundations framework
- Censorship of Science
- Change needs experience
- Checking all the Boxes: Battleship (addendum)
- Chesterton’s fence
- Chosing the right battles
- Circumstances for Creative Work over Time
- Clear Communication in Engineering and Science (including the social sciences)
- Climate Change Activism
- Comedians
- Comment on “10 Myths About Introverts” by Carl King
- Compliance
- Computer Games — Escapism or Additional Emotional Pillar?
- Confirmation Bias when Doing an Analysis in HCD
- Consensus in Science
- Corona: Let a hundred flowers bloom …
- Correlation and Causality
- Costly Signals
- Covid Consequences
- Covid Mistakes
- Crappy Dubbing, or: Why watch movies in their original language
- Creative Solutions during Covid Teaching Regulations
- Creativity and the Military
- Cybermobbing is mobbing, not cyber
- Dafuq? Socks actually get lost????
- Daily business vs Underdogs
- Data Sharing in Science and Academic Attrition Rates
- Data Sharing in Science: A Job for Journals
- Dealing with (Personal) Infrastructure Failure
- Dealing with Fansites
- Dealing with Negative Comments
- Dealing With the Plagiarism Plague Among Students
- Deeply Misguiding — Problems with Surveys on Inequality
- Deliberate Practice — Or: How to invest that 10000 hours you need to become an expert in something
- Differences in Discussions
- Digitally naming, shaming and jailing
- Diogenes Club (Market Niche)
- Disrespectful questions are the nature of the Internet
- Ditch the Man Cave, Bring Back the Study
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Do you actually realize you are free?
- Doing Damage with Ads with “Positive” Purposes: The overjustification effect
- Don’t overthink it!
- Don’t underestimate Ducks
- Dreams
- Dystopian Story and Movie Recommendation: “Harrison Bergeron” and “2081”
- E-Voting
- Elon Musk on Free Speech
- Enter the MOOC Masochists
- Entrepreneurship during Crises vs Fairness
- Essay Recommendation: “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- Ethics and User Centered Design / User Experience
- Ethics between Medicine, Psychology, and Media and Computer Science
- Even if you quit and leave academia, you take the best thing with you.
- Even Without the Barrier, a Mountain is Still a Mountain
- Everyday (online) Sadism
- Expert Colored Glasses
- False Dichotomies (Presentation Slides, German)
- Family Dinner Habits
- Fasting to Feasting
- Female Cowards
- Figureheads vs. Opinion Leaders
- Finding a Bachelor, Master and perhaps even PhD thesis Topic in Media and Computer Science
- Finding out what you really want
- FIRE Webinar — Free Speech Walls and Beyond: Promoting and Defending the First Amendment on Campus
- First Impression about Freedomain Radio
- Fuck Censorship and Draw On!
- Gab seems to be running nicely now
- Gab.ai releases Dissenter — A tool to free comments on the Internet
- German Speech Disorder
- Getting a Realistic (if painful) Impression
- Getting Corrected
- Getting interviewed by a hostile news person as an Academic: A best practice example
- Giving children what they need
- Giving People a Reason
- Good (and tough) Questions
- Google, Diversity and Free Speech
- Great talk by Jonathan Haidt: “Two incompatible sacred values in American universities”
- Great Vidcast: Aydin Paladin on YouTube
- Hierarchy of Agreement
- Honest Journalism
- How about a “Rehearse Slideshow” Mode with a Virtual Reality Audience?
- How about a Geeks’ Day?
- How Ads bias your perception, or: how an ad campaign for a good purpose can be really bad
- How Does the Brain Look Like on Yoghurt?
- How NOT to tell stories
- How the Internet Times Have Changed
- Human-centered Design: Seeing what’s missing
- I can see and hear you now
- ICU’s
- Ideology and Laws
- If you cut off the spine of a book to digitize it, keep your legs out of the way
- Ignoring Covid (I wish)
- Impotent Project Partners
- Impressive Monologue about Art
- Impressive view on Virtual Reality (VR) from almost three decades ago
- In Gamification, Points aren’t the Point
- Incredible Poem (Text and Video): «The Hangman» by Maurice Ogden
- Inspiration from Unlikely Places
- Inspiring essay on “The Legacy of Star Trek” by Majel Barrett Roddenberry (from 1995)
- Intelligence Squared Debates — like a TED Talk where you hear more than one side (also: paying for sex)
- Interesting Debate: “The State of Free Speech in America”
- Interesting Discussion about Free Speech and Censorship at Universities
- Interesting interview on leaving illiberal groups and building stuff
- Interesting Interview with ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Cartoonist Luz
- Interesting opinion piece on the illusion of evidence based medicine
- Interesting talk by Jonathan Haidt and YourMorals.org
- Interesting TED Talk: Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science
- Interesting video by FIRE on the Presumption of Innocence
- Internet of Things, AI, Smart Cities and Planned Societies
- Is it really that easy to turn a democracy into a socialist dictatorship?
- Is Prosumer Virtual Reality Finally Here?
- Isolation (Covid lockdowns for unvaccinated)
- It’s easier to stop in the beginning than later
- It’s not that life came with a handbook
- It’s time to say ‹enough›
- Jonathan Haidt on Institutionalized Disconfirmation in Universities
- Jordan Peterson on Alcohol
- Keep your Sanity
- Knight Forks
- Lawful and Evil
- Laws for Robots
- Learning Analytics, Ethics, and Dutch Uncles
- Learning from Feedback is only possible if you write your choice down
- Leaving your Comfort Zone
- Legal Side Effects of Logging User Behavior (esp. when driving)
- Let the Bigots Speak Freely
- Let’s Not Wait for a Panacea to Ensure Good Scientific Practice
- Levers in Gamification
- Light from above equals Hitler Beard
- Like a Medicine Ball to the Chest
- Listening to differening opinions
- Listening to differing opinions
- Living in a Van (and exploring the world with it)
- Loneliness and Solitude in Creativity
- Looking at a different area — Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)
- Looking back at the postings of 2015
- Looking Back on 2013
- Loopholes
- Losing Customers
- Making sense of scientific news stories
- Maladaptive Communication with Masks
- Media Lies
- Meh, Internet.
- Memorial Places
- Minimum Requirements to React to Comments
- Mistakes: Circles and Spirals
- Modern Art
- Modern Ideology in Children’s Books
- Musical Timeline
- Nearly Forty years and Two in One Image
- Necrophilic Teaching
- Negative Creativity
- Neil Oliver: Will we remain silent while a dark tide slides ever closer to our own shores?
- Nervous Breakdowns and the Importance of One’s Work
- New Standing Desk Setup
- New Standing Desk Setup: Mod #1
- New Wine in Old Skins (Music)
- No
- Non-Stereotypical Life-Paths, Or: How to Avoid Pissing Contests You Probably Really Don’t Care About
- Notability iPad Battery Drainage
- Nothing to Hide
- Nudging
- Obedience, for obedience’s sake
- Off-Topic Recommendation: A video on being safe
- One eMail-Rule to Misrule Them All
- Online Censorship
- Online Discussions
- Operationalizing Ethics
- Other Criteria for Good Discussions
- Out there
- Oxford Union Society’s “Freedom of Speech and Right to Offend” Debate
- Painting: It does’t have to start perfect
- Parents and Mentors
- Paying attention to a current crisis to learn for the future
- People Filter
- Perhaps the Good Guys are the Bad Guys
- Perspective
- Perspectives on Smoking (pipe)
- Plagiarism #2 — How frequent is plagiarism, why does it happen, and how to spot it
- Playing Devil’s Advocate
- Political not Health Goals (Covid)
- Politics vs. Politics
- Presentation about Technology as Tool or Trap (in German)
- Presentation: Persuasive Technology (and Gamification and Nudging) in the Context of Climate Change Apps (or rather: ecologically friendly behavior) [in German]
- PRISM – A Bug On Every Person, A Camera In All Places
- Prism — ‘Private’ Privacy Is Not Everything
- Providing interesting perspectives in popular fiction
- Question: Why is Modern Art so Bad?
- Questionable Views in Academia
- Quotes related to (Organizing) Creativity
- Randall Munroe’s “What if …” TED Talk
- Reactions to «I have occupied myself with the topic» (mostly during a discussion)
- Reading Carefully (using detective stories — here: Death on the Nile — as an example)
- Realizing “that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own”
- Really Bad Food
- Reboots vs Originals
- Recommendation: “I Need a Hashtag” by Remy
- Recommendation: “Man’s Search For Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl
- Recommendation: “The Orville”
- Recommendation: 9 Chickweed Lane Comic Strip
- Recommendation: Article “On Pleasurable Beliefs” by Thomas Harper
- Recommendation: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot
- Recommendation: Dollhouse
- Recommendation: Douglas Murray on Telling the Truth
- Recommendation: Douglas Murray on The Rubin Report
- Recommendation: Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State
- Recommendation: Free Speech On Campus
- Recommendation: How to Survive a Plague
- Recommendation: John Oliver on Scientific Studies
- Recommendation: Jonathan Haidt on Coddling U. vs. Strengthening U.
- Recommendation: No Safe Spaces
- Recommendation: Political correctness: A force for good? A Munk Debate
- Recommendation: Silenced. Our War On Free Speech (Movie)
- Recommendation: TED Talk by Zara Swindells-Grose: “The Epidemic of Over-Seriousness”
- Recommendation: TED Talk of Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0
- Recommendation: Terry Pratchett’s “Discworld”
- Recommendation: The Red Pill
- Recommendation: The Rubin Report (esp. Dr. Everett Piper Interview)
- Recommendation: Uncle Tom
- Recommendation: When Ethicists Opt Out: The Failure of Campus COVID Mandates by Sarah Hartman-Caverly
- Recommendation: When Wokes and Racists Actually Agree on Everything
- Recommendation: «The Fountainhead» by Ayn Rand
- Regulating citizens to the mean (with an SD of 0)
- Responsibility to New Academic Hires
- Rethinking Presentation Software (non-Prezi Style)
- Russia (at the time of the Ukraine invasion)
- Russian Science vs Russian Oil
- Safe Spaces at Universities
- Safety must never be paramount
- Safetyism in today’s culture (and other topics)
- Save the Climate — well, kinda.
- Science and “The Good Cause”
- Science and Technology in War
- Science and the Hard Sciences
- Science without Art is Bleak, Art without Science is Terrifying
- Science! Inspire the Public or Expose the Muppets?
- Science, Fraud, and the Flow of Data
- Scientific Misconduct: Truth and Power (& Stupidity)
- Screw Optimists and Pessimists, be a Possibilist
- Seeing Creative Solutions
- Seems like in Germany, 2020 ends not with a bang, but a whimper
- Self-Defeating Self-Talk, or: The Enemy in Your Head, Where Your Friend Should be
- Self-Reflective Students
- Serious Discussions on Social Media
- Sex Work and Art
- Side Effects
- Signs you should look for a plan B (or leave the country)
- Since when is Sloth a Virtue?
- Smell (Home Office vs Work Office)
- So, what is important to you?
- Social Justice Parasites
- Socially Accepted Gleeful Bullying
- Some comments on the tension between creativity and commerce
- Some Hope for the Future (Calvin and Hobbes)
- Some Thoughts On The Long-Term Fallout Of Mobbing
- Some thoughts on the topic of Covid on this blog and a recommendation to an interesting essay from Cory Zue
- Sometimes a brick is only a brick (Creativity ‘Test’)
- Sometimes you have to first increase the distance to your goal to reach it
- Speaker for the Dead
- Standing Up for What You Believe In
- Statistically Significant Group Differences vs Individual Fairness
- Subway Productivity (mobile digital workstation)
- Suggestions for Writing an Autobiography
- Support Roles
- Surprise and Delight from Smartphones
- Survival of Creative Minds
- Surviving Mac Accidents and Catastrophes
- Synergy of Solutions, if not of Problems
- Take Care of Your Education – Heinlein’s “Have Spacesuit, Will Travel”
- Taking Back the Weekend
- Taking stock of oneself
- Taste and Burials
- Teach what you love (unless it’s male writers?)
- Technology as enabler — and betrayer
- Technology/Engineering and Psychology
- The Actual Price of Things
- The arrogance of “rebels”
- The atrocities at the height of an evil regime did start small
- The end of the continuum
- The Fear of Making Mistakes
- The Freedom to Create
- The Joy of Not Knowing Beforehand
- The Learning Game
- The Lowest Common Denominator
- The Lure of the Screen in App Development
- The Mind Parasite has Arrived in the German Student Population
- The Minimalism of Star Wars
- The more things change, the more …
- The most important information first aid courses usually neglect to convey
- The Office of Research Integrity: The Lab (Serious Game about Research Ethics)
- The Pandemic of Fear — Recommended Podcast Episode
- The pathology of ideological possession
- The PhD’s New Clothes, or: Anonymous Information regarding Plagiarism
- The Power of Silence (and the little green (wo)man)
- The Problem with Functional Fixedness in Creativity
- The Reality of Sex (in medicine)
- The Responsibility of Using the Academic Title of Doctor
- The Sweet Thorn of Madness in Creativity
- The trouble with the German Language: «du» or «Sie»?
- The Uses of Writing a Blog
- The Woke Short
- These tiny tiny motivators
- Things Filter
- Thinking Critically — What did really happen?
- Time to Think
- Tiny House Building
- Tortured Souls
- Truth to Power as a Habit
- Two further Covid-19 predictions for the second half of 2021 (in Germany)
- Two people disagreeing on a event does not mean one of them is lying — brilliant talk by an inspirational person.
- Two Quick Video Recommendations: Cultural Libertarian and Trigger Warnings
- Two Tales of Hacking Online Dating
- Unintended Messages
- Universities under Covid-19 Regulations
- Unread Books as Gifts to Authors
- Update to «The atrocities at the height of an evil regime did start small»
- Updated Academic Workflow 2014
- Ursula’s back at censoring
- Useful discussions
- User Centered Design — Don’t Ignore or Believe, but be the Midwife or the one who does some Artificial Insemination
- Using and abusing academic workshops
- Using Good Quotations to Brighten the Day of the People You Love
- Using the Fraud Triangle to Explain Scientific Misconduct
- Using the Travel Time to and From Work
- Video Recommendation: MASS PSYCHOSIS – How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL
- Viewpoint Diversity
- Viewpoint Diversity (and creating T-Shirts)
- Viewpoint Diversity in Psychology
- Visions of the Future
- Visiting elderly relatives on Christmas — a long life or a life well spent
- vlc Video Effects
- Warning: Freedomain Radio
- Wasted Chances
- Watching TED in the cinema
- We won’t reach Utopia, but we can make the journey to it worthwhile
- Weight Hacking Part II
- Weight Hacking Part IV – The Long View
- Well, Stalin wasn’t wrong
- Wet and slimy and full of critters
- What do you want your children to receive? At least the same — or more?
- What ever happened to …?
- What is an hour of your life actually worth?
- What Leaders are for (repost)
- What would change if Twitter would be Pseudo-Anonymous?
- What’s going on with Corona?
- When violence is the answer
- Where does your creativity break down?
- Who Determines What Is “Good” in a Discussion?
- Why “great” ideas need a reality check
- Why a Code of Conduct for Conferences is a Really Bad Idea
- Why a Creative Present is Better than an Authentic Past
- Why correcting student papers is a bad idea
- Why Creativity is Incompatible with Collectivism/Socialism
- Why do the vaccinated still have to wear masks when they are on their own?
- Why not to trust in-department data storage
- Why not treat a learning AI like you would treat a dog?
- Why Science Should Act as Reality Check (even for bogus ideas)
- Why should I care about #GamerGate — I’m not even interested in computer games?
- Windows 10, Cortana, and the Loyalty of Virtual Assistants
- Wishes
- With self-reflection, take small doses only.
- Withheld Twitter Accounts
- Without meaning, freedom becomes threatening
- Worth a Look: Pornhub’s Classic Nudes
- Worthy Goals — Avoiding Delicious Treats
- Writing a Synopsis for a Bachelor, Master or PhD Thesis in Media and Computer Science
- Writing like a commie, or what the teacher wants to hear vs what you actually believe
- Yeah, humans 🙂
- Your Mileage Might Vary (YMMV)
- Your Past, Present and Future Selves — do you like these guys?
- Youth has its function
- «Myths That Conceal Reality» by Milton Friedman
- «To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.»
- «What is Viewpoint Diversity?» by Heterodox Academy
