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Borderless View into the Universe

Professor Christian Stegmann Uses Gamma-Ray Telescopes to Look for Cosmic Accelerators

There is one appointment after the other. Christian Stegmann hurries down the corridor, a hard hat under his arm. There is a lot of construction work …
Image: Anne Springer

Why Love Hurts

About the Relativity of Pain

Pain is a reaction of the body to an objectively measurable stimulus. How we sense pain subjectively, whether we rate it as merely unpleasant or as …
Pic.: Andreas Klaer

Politics Upclose

The Institute of Local Government Studies

They decide where to build new bike paths and how many places to create in day-care centers for children. They also decide about the opening hours of …
Pic: Kerstin Littke

Caribbean Kaleidoscope

The Fascination of Moving Non-Centers

The Caribbean? Gorgeous. Who has not envisioned himself/herself lying in a hammock under palm trees at the ocean watching the sunset? Who has not …
Photo: Karla Fritze

Scattered Heritage

German-Jewish Culture around the World

A chipped cup with a faded golden rim. An old teddy bear, a yellowed, shabby tablecloth. A poem, a letter, a historical Goethe edition – all these …

Mental Number Line

The role of finger counting and the significance of embodied cognition

Is our brain a computer? A calculating machine? A processor of information with memory capacity problems? For a long time neuroscientists thought so. …

Who Ate the Mouse?

Psycholinguists from Potsdam examine how the human brain processes language

We can understand what we read and hear without any difficulty. We do this without ever really thinking about the high performance of our brain. It is …
Source: Stieglitz, S. & Dang-Xuan, L. (2012): Social Media and Political Communication - A Social Media Analytics Framework. Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM)

Needles in a Haystack

Project Group: Analysis of Opinion-Forming on the Internet

Social media have changed the world of public communication. Through applications such as Twitter, Facebook, and blogs, the opportunities for public …
Foto: Fabian Frenzel

Education or Voyeurism?

Potsdam geographers study what slum tourism changes in visitors and visited

 

Museums and markets, animals and temples, picturesque landscapes and friendly people – these are the things that most people want to experience when …
Potsdam - Capital of Brandenburg, Photo: Karla Fritze

Crossover

Political scientists from Potsdam are dealing with the challenges of climate change

Climate change is among those topics that are discussed the most intensively all over the world. Even if it is not evident at first glance, these are …