Was Alexander von Humboldt the first acoustic ecologist? Ricardo Lorenz (Professor of Music Composition at Michigan State University) shows how the naturalist took in the tropical environment by relying not only on his eyesight, but also on his acute sense of hearing. 

Many people have paused to consider the nature of time. It is one of life’s great mysteries. When asked what God was doing before he invented time, Augustine is said to have replied: “Creating a hell for people who ask questions like that.”

speculation? The justification of metaphysics at the Berlin Academy between 1746 and 1765, in: Anstey, Peter/ Prunea-Bretonet, Tinca (Hrsg.): The Berlin Academy in the Reign of Frederick the Great: Philosophy [...] Monographie Religion, science and moral philosophy in the Huguenot Enlightenment. Jean Henri Samuel Formey and the Berlin Academy (= Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 2024:2), Liverpool, 2024. Editionen [...] Philosophy and Science (= Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 2022:11), Liverpool, 2022, S. 39-69. Stranding in the Encyclopédie: the case of Samuel Formey’s philosophical dictionary, 1742-1747

network organisation. In the Young Scientists Workshop scientists on the postdoc level have the opportunity to discuss topics of research opportunities in the scientific world of the Middle East together with [...] The purpose of the conference is to bring together members of established German networks of scientific excellence with partners in the countries of the Middle East to exchange views and experiences on [...] Project at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Michael Niedermeier Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Goethe-Dictionary A Long-Term Research Project at the Berlin-

The Interdisciplinary Research Group (IAG) is dedicated to the global future of our food and nutrition, and its role in disease prevention. Feeding the world's growing population is increasingly at risk [...] methods and technologies currently available, the IAG will first analyze the current state of research on food quality and food production, as well as the status of our food system. It will summarize verified [...] on our health, the incidences of nutrition-related diseases is increasing worldwide. But what does ‘healthy’ actually mean? Science does not (yet) provide a definitive answer. Many of the ingredients in

The Human Use of Human Beings: Why Artificial Intelligence is only Part of the Problem Norbert Wiener argued in The Human Use of Human Beings (1950) that automation would bring large social benefits by [...] by freeing human beings from the drudgery of modern labor. Today, the rise of AI rekindles his argument -- and ushers in a new set of concerns. Aufzeichnung vom 12. Dezember 2023 Der an dieser Stelle gezeigte [...] Does AI solve any of these concerns, or does it magnify their consequences? Join the American Academy in Berlin and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities for a discussion of these and

DARIAH-EU, the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW), Inria (Paris, France) and the Belgrade Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH, Serbia), are co-organizing, with the support of the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), CLARIN, DARIAH-DE and the EU H2020 project Humanities at Scale (HaS), a masterclass on the management of lexical data, which will take place in Berlin at the BBAW from 4 to 8 December 2017. The Lexical Data Masterclass is bringing together 20 trainees together with experts to share experiences, methods and techniques for the creation, management and use of digital lexical data. This masterclass is part of a joint French-German program supported by the BMBF and MESRI (French Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation).

An online seminar series, focused on East/Central Europe within the international and transnational academic and cultural context.

Im Rahmen des Veranstaltungsformats „Academies meet” diskutieren WissenschaftlerInnen aus Deutschland, Israel und anderen Ländern über die historische Verbindung von Wissenschaft und moderner Kriegstechnologie. Lassen sich aus Kriegen Erkenntnisse für den Frieden gewinnen? Kann die Wissenschaft vielleicht sogar den Weg zu einer friedlichen Welt ebnen?

Schriftstellers erstmals vollständig. "The principal view of our expedition, the search after a southern continent within the bounds of the temperate zone, was fulfilled. Upon the whole, nothing appears more evident [...] evident, than that additions to the stock of human knowledge which have been made during this voyage, however considerable they may be when put in competition with what was known before, are of small moment [...] moment when compared with the immense variety of unknown objects which, even in our present confined situation, are still within our reach, and which, for ages to come, will probably open new and extensive