Martin Schulz

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What can make you change your mind in your professional life?

1. While you are working on a project 2. Before you start a new project 3. Have there been important strategic shifts in your professional life? 4. Do you have the impression that you change your...

08 August 2014 7,186 13 View

In a brain scan, what can be uncovered by the interpretations and what cannot?

Can the decoding of the details reveal something about our shared world? Assumed the brain scan would be reliable and decoded so that it tells us that the test person is thinking of the sentence...

07 July 2014 6,799 54 View

Soccer: „The modern ball takes a different flight path.”

There was a sports interview where a player told the audience that the ball as it is construed nowadays “flies curves that are different” because of its geometry. I would like to know more about...

07 July 2014 8,740 2 View

Is it a coincidence when we meet the right people in our lives?

Have you ever met persons who were particularly important for you at a special moment or situation of your private or professional life? I am not thinking of magical circumstances but of something...

07 July 2014 2,942 37 View

Non-payment culture – will it shrink the economy?

Jaron Lanier, in his new book “Who owns the future?” (2013) proposes the thesis, that the non-payment culture of free information and reduced transaction costs provided by the internet will shrink...

05 May 2014 9,320 18 View

Social media: Downvoting and degrading in social networks – What are the reasons? - What are the reactions?

We have recently seen a lot of down-votings in some threads. We also saw different kinds of reactions on this phenomenon. I would like to ask a question about these reactions. First I assume that...

05 May 2014 4,973 88 View

Is our talk of facts redundant? – Do we need facts in addition to causes?

The British logician Peter Geach wrote that “facts” found their way into literature by the end of the 19th century via the fashion journal “Strand Magazine”. In former times one could do without...

05 May 2014 3,780 15 View

Can we learn from our own imagination? Can someone move a slide rule in the head and get new results?

There are anecdotes about people with a special talent who can move a slide rule (a slipstick) in their head and get a result which they had not had before. I doubt this for a number of...

03 March 2014 4,181 39 View

Are there infinitely many possible sentences in a natural language?

Most authors seem to think so. Frege, one of the few mathematicians who worked on that problem spoke of “unpredictably many” (or uncalculably many; “unabsehbar viele”) - not an infinite number of...

02 February 2014 10,095 99 View