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Florian Jenn, Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Umweltgeologie der Brandenburgischen Technischen Universität (BTU) Cottbus.
Weitere Interessen nebst Geologie und Wissenschaft allgemein: diverser Blödsinn, der einem im Leben übern Weg läuft, und kochen, vor allem Thai.

Happy new year!

Silvester 2011 Feuerzangenbowle

I wish everyone who is still reading my blog after the long stretch of silence a happy new year!

Igneous cats!

Igneous cats.

I've seen this ages ago and finally found it again: the igneous cats, from mafic to felsic:

All my WoGEs

WoGE 274

These are all the WoGEs I posted, nicely collected, without any hints (sometimes I give some clues in the introduction) and direct links to the JPEG file, so there is no danger of accidentally reading the solution. (This may be an advantage over the category archive.) This page is also linked in the sidebar to […]

Corundum fibre materials

A company, the name of which I withhold because of the ongoing innovative product development, is currently testing their new product “corundum rapid abrasion paper” (c.r.a.p.) at our university. This paper has several special properties: The fabric can be produced to be equivalent to sand paper grit sizes of >120, but is considerably thinner. Thus, […]

Geologist(s) and engineers in the German Parliament (Bundestag)

Bundesadler (Bundestag)

Christian Reinboth on Frischer Wind has collected data on the profession and educational background of the members of the German Parliament (Bundestag) and presents some statistical evaluation (sorry, German only). That's just an overview for now, and he's asking his readers what else could be extracted from the data base. There are some interesting results […]

Central Intelligence and Media Centre?

Skulptur „Kryptos“ (CIA Headquaters, Langley, VA). Quelle: Jim Gillogly

Recently, I browsed the archive of Mathlog and found a nice article about the still not completely solved cryptographic puzzle sculpture “Kryptos” (sorry, German only; you may find more info on Wikipedia).

Where on Google Earth #274

WoGE 274

It seems I'm back on track with playing WoGE, although not always successful. (For a description what this is, see below the fold. Previous WoGEs are collected on Felix Bossert's blog and in Ron Schott's KML.) But this time I was lucky and found Felix Bossert's remake of WoGE 122, a close-up view of dunes […]

Rockslide at Hirschsprung in Obermaiselstein, Germany

Felssturz am Hirschsprung, Obermaiselstein, 2011.

On 14 January 2011 there was a rockslide at the “Hirschsprung” cleft near my home village of Obermaiselstein. I happened to visit Obermaiselstein a few weeks ago and had a look at it. These are some photos from 06.02.2011.

In Parliament: Sigmar Gabriel about the minister of defence

In this whole gruesome affair about our beloved impostor, opposition leader Sigmar Gabriel made a interesting observation in his speech about the impending army reform (at 11'50" in this YouTube video; German of course): There was no call to order by the president [of the Bundestag], not even all too loud uproar or protest on […]

Where on Google Earth #270

Where on Google Earth #270.

For several months now I didn't get round to try solving WoGE puzzles (For a description what this is, see below the fold. Previous WoGEs are collected on Felix Bossert's blog and in Ron Schott's KML.) or was just too slow to find the current page on the web (and the location, of course). Now […]

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