My weekends get curiouser and curiouser ;) This time I was visiting M.'s family and flew with a sail-plane! Almost everyone in M.'s family is involved in a glider club near Bremen (he himself has a glider licence!), so it was almost obligatory for me to try it at least once. Of cause not on my own, his step father flew me, but nevertheless - it was ( Read more... )

No, I’m not dead. Despite spending lots of time in the same room with quite sinister tombstones. Well, ex-tombstones. That’s what happens when a research-group is full of creative ideas but poor on financial support. They needed something big and stable, something to dampen the vibrations from the other rooms (which would disturb the measurements ( Read more... )