Jan Gunneweg

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Reinstalling cloud seeding using silver iodide to prevent the wild fires in California?

The cloud seeding that started in the 1950s using silver iodine was good for watering the crops of the farmers. Nevertheless, it can also be used to wet the undergrowth in plains and mountains...

13 September 2020 9,136 6 View

Can we retrieve sound from past catastrophic events left as traces in rock & metals?

A gramophone gets music or the spoken word back from incised grooves in a disk. The grooves were made by vibrations laid down as sound in matter. Is it possible that Nature left its imprint in...

21 May 2019 2,008 6 View

Thousands of patients die yearly in hospitals due to virus and bacteria, Why not return to the 20th Century use of LYSOL cleaning surfaces & fabrics?

Thousands of people die every year in hospitals due to the infected hospital floors and textile- and plastic fabrics. In the 1950s-1970s Lysol was used that was highly disinfectant. In spite of...

09 February 2019 8,749 8 View

Where are the human remains of the Minoans from the destroyed city of Akrotiri in Crete?

The Thera eruption destroyed most of the island today known as Santorini. Akrotiri, located on the eastern tip of the island, was destroyed as the archaeological excavations show at...

05 October 2015 653 5 View

How do you see the integration of Archaeology and Archaeometry?

The idea of a collaboration between scientists and geologists and archaeologists saw light 1954 at the Princeton Institute of Advance Studies, when Oppenheimer, previously the Head of the...

02 July 2014 7,436 22 View

Would transparency in museum matters stop illicit trade in Cultural Heritage remains?

After my initial Q&A topic of “what is the future of our Cultural Heritage” of some months ago it is almost a follow-up by asking the next logical question “Would transparency in museum matters...

25 May 2014 7,291 14 View

What is non-destructive sampling in Cultural Heritage?

According to my view, even the mere opening of a drawer or a cupboard is already damaging to cultural remains. The shock of opening a drawer, the changing environment between the inside and the...

09 May 2014 137 9 View

Is the feudal era returning? And what can we do about it?

During the Karolinger and Medieval periods, there was a system of Nobility, Clerics, Peasants and Builders, in short a system of “the Lords” and “the Others”. The “Lords” consisting of clerics...

16 April 2014 1,463 6 View

What is the future of taking care of our Cultural Heritage?

Cultural Heritage has grown over the past decades to become one of the most pending questions to mankind. Individuals continue more than ever before to look into the very roots of their existence,...

24 March 2014 3,035 95 View