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The Atlantropa Project

20 February 2013 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: General, Berlin Reading Time:  8 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Atlantropa, also referred to as Panropa, was a gigantic engineering and colonization project devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s and promulgated by him until his death in 1952. Its central feature was a hydroelectric dam to be built across the Strait of Gibraltar, which would have provided enormous amounts of hydroelectricity and would have led to the lowering of the surface of the Mediterranean Sea by up to 200 metres (660 ft), opening up large new lands for settlement, for example in a now almost totally drained Adriatic Sea.   read more…

Portrait: Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Prince of Mathematicians from Brunswick

9 January 2013 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: Portrait Reading Time:  5 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (* 30 April 1777 in Braunschweig – † 23 February 1855 in Göttingen) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.   read more…

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The World Wonders Project

1 September 2012 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post From the archaeological areas of Pompeii to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Google’s World Wonders Project aims to bring to life the wonders of the modern and ancient world.   read more…

Recommended reading: “Managing Your Boss: Specifications”

29 June 2012 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: General Reading Time:  2 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post This book provides valuable insight and practical tips through case studies and examples based on real life experiences of middle and senior managers. While endless material (books, training workshops, seminars and studies) is churned out on leaderships skills, followership, the art of working effectively and harmoniously with superiors is underestimated. Valuable time and energy are spent (at the office water-cooler or family dinner-table) in crying, “Why can’t my boss be like me/like my ex-boss – more appreciative; more enterprising more considerate; more communicative; less rigid…” (the list is endless).   read more…

The “Welcome to Germany” Portal of the Qualified Professionals Initiative

6 June 2012 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: General Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post “Make it in Germany” shows qualified professionals from other countries the way to Germany – and what makes it worthwhile to live and work here. For the first time, the Internet portal bundles together all the key information about making a career and living in Germany. It tells you which sectors are in search of qualified professionals and what the terms and conditions are of being able to take up employment in Germany.   read more…

2. World Fish Bun Day on May, 12

12 May 2012 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: General, Events Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Today is the 2. World Fish Bun Day. The ostsee* is already looking forward again to the many visitors and fish stall owners, to worship the Fish Bun Day together. Special events are set up to celebrate and hail the fish sandwiches in some places of Schleswig-Holstein (Northern Germany). Lots of fun is waiting for you!   read more…

Building automation

15 October 2011 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: General, Building Automation, Living, Working, Building Reading Time:  3 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Building automation describes the functionality provided by the control system of a building. A building automation system (BAS) is an example of a distributed control system. The control system is a computerized, intelligent network of electronic devices designed to monitor and control the mechanical and lighting systems in a building.   read more…

Challenge Bibendum

12 October 2011 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: General, San Francisco Bay Area Reading Time:  4 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Michelin Challenge Bibendum is a major annual sustainable mobility event, sponsored by the French tire company Michelin. In 1998, executives at Michelin made the decision to host an event that would showcase technological research into “clean vehicles” and allow them to be assessed in real operating conditions.   read more…

Slow Food – more than just a lifestyle

28 September 2011 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: General, Bon appétit, Shopping Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Slow Food began in Italy with the founding of its forerunner organization, Arcigola, in 1986 to resist the opening of a McDonald’s near the Spanish Steps in Rome. In 1989, the founding Manifesto of the international Slow Food movement was signed in Paris, France by delegates from 15 countries. This was done not so much a protest against the restaurant chain as a protest against big international business interests.   read more…