Viel zu tun auf der Arbeit, unterwegs auf Dienstreise in den USA, krank. Ein Monat vergangen, aber nicht viel gelesen.

Kultur

• Das Märchen vom guten deutschen Brot
  Puh. Stern-Artikel zu lesen ist zäh und schwierig. Wenn man mal die Formkruste  weggefrühstückt hat, dann steht da allerdings ein im Korn interessanter Artikel. Die Fertigmischungen im Deutschen Industriebrot. Sicherlich nicht objektiv. (SCNR die Wortspiele)
• Computing and the Fermi Paradox: A New Idea Emerges—The Aliens Are All Asleep
  A computing-based solution to the Fermi Paradox: All higher-evolved species live inside the computers they created; but those can only run most-efficiently when cooled. Best cooling: The universe itself. And while the current background temperature of the universe of 2.7 K is quite cold, at some point (1400 billion years) the universe will be at its coldest of e-30 K. So the species might just wait for that time to resurface, also because time is different to you once you’ve put yourself into a computer. Ooookay!
• A Magical Answer to an 80-Year-Old Puzzle
  Who would’ve thought… The internet, helping solve Math puzzles. Article from 2015.
• The World is Running Out of Sand
  With ever lager cities and artificial land creation, sand is overmined all over the world.

Technologie

• CRISPR 2.0 Is Here, and It’s Way More Precise
  Crazy. While CRISPR edits whole pieces of DNA, the new way would edit single bases in DNA.
• Top-notch: Das iPhone X
  Review zum iPhone X. (Hatte das iPhone X in einem Apple Shop in der Hand. OLED FTW!)

TV-Serien

• ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Or ‘The Orville’: WTF Do Trek Fans Really Want?
  Brett White about the divide of critics between ST:D and The Orville. Interesting! I like both shows to some extent: ST:D is super well-made and sophisticated and complex; The Orville is really stupid, at times nearly cringe-worthy, but much more light and unconvoluted.
• ‘Mindhunter’ Spoiler Review: A Deep Dive Into David Fincher’s New Netflix Series
  Watched Mindhunter in planes and hotel gyms over the last weeks. Great show, covered a little under the hype of Stranger Things. But you should definitely watch it. (And it’s a pleasure to see Anna Torv back on the screen again.)
• ‘Dark’ Review: Netflix Introduces You to the German ‘Stranger Things’
  On December 1, Netflix first German production »Dark« premieres. The reviews are praising it, albeit noticing its depressing and dark (…) atmosphere.
• With ‘Dark,’ a German Netflix Series, Streaming Crosses a New Border
  Also praise for »Dark«, but somewhat more focused on the general German TV landscape (TIL: Netflix currently produces a second German show, »Dogs Of Berlin«. Note to self: I should watch »Babylon Berlin«.)