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Sep 12, 2026

Dominic MooreNARRATOR
76:17
In age and in reputation he was on the same level as his English companion, but his life and his work had both been far more arduous.
Dominic MooreNARRATOR
76:25
Twelve years before he had come as a poor student to Rome, and had lived ever since upon some small endowment for research which had been awarded to him by the University of Bonn.
Dominic MooreNARRATOR
76:36
Painfully, slowly, and doggedly, with extraordinary tenacity and single-mindedness, he had climbed from rung to rung of the ladder of fame, until now he was a member of the Berlin Academy, and there was every reason to believe that he should shortly be promoted to the chair of the greatest of German universities.
Dominic MooreNARRATOR
76:56
But the singleness of purpose which had brought him to the same high level as the rich and brilliant Englishman had caused him in everything outside their work to stand infinitely below him.
Onder AlbayramGUEST
6:58
You say, wow, what is the meaning of molecular psychiatry? We don't know much about psychiatry yet.
Onder AlbayramGUEST
7:03
How can we know about molecular, you know? It was in Bonn, University of Bonn, Germany.
Onder AlbayramGUEST
7:07
I joined as a PhD student in 2009.
Onder AlbayramGUEST
7:10
Then I met with my current curriculum, part of my current curriculum, because I had a chance to work on endocannabinoid signaling system in the brain.
speaker_1NARRATOR
31:47
It is necessary to have lived through it in order to believe that such careless self-lulling and comfortable indifference to the moment or to time in general are possible.
speaker_1NARRATOR
32:00
In this condition, I and a friend about my own age spent a year at the University of Bonn on the Rhine.
speaker_1NARRATOR
32:08
It was a year which in its complete lack of plans and projects for the future seems almost like a dream to me now, a dream framed as it were by two periods of growth.
speaker_1NARRATOR
32:20
We two remained quiet and peaceful, although we were surrounded by fellows who in the main were very differently disposed, and from time to time we experienced considerable difficulty in meeting and resisting the somewhat too pressing advances of the young men of our own age.
Jack PosobiecGUEST
45:05
Oh, yeah
Seth GruberHOST
45:05
... professor at the University of Bonn.
Seth GruberHOST
45:08
Um, and kind of your progressive Christian, you know, like, just studies Jesus as a historical figure, and they, they went to have a evening of amusement, uh, in a nearby village, um, I think it was called Gottes- Gottesberg or something, and th- it- they basically paraded through the streets reenacting Jesus's entry into Jerusalem [laughs] um, on donkeys, uh, in, in, in almost this, uh, you know, final sneer, uh, at the faith that, that he was leaving behind.
Seth GruberHOST
45:40
And, uh, it, it, it- I remember studying that the first time, Jack, and being like, "Oh, interesting.

Unknown podcast

Could Your Entire Life Be Happening Inside a Simulation?

Sep 10 · 1 Mention

Ben CarterHOST
17:06
Could physics help? In October 2012, Silas Bean, Zohra Davoudi and Martin Savage submitted a paper titled Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation.
Ben CarterHOST
17:18
Their institutional affiliations included the University of Washington's Institute for Nuclear Theory, the University of Washington Department of Physics and Universitat Bonn.
Ben CarterHOST
17:27
Their paper did not announce evidence that spacetime is a computer grid.
Ben CarterHOST
17:31
It began with a conditional.
Emmanuel MwambaHOST
25:57
He's a cleric based in Kitwe.
Emmanuel MwambaHOST
26:00
He also holds a Master's of Arts in Communical Theology from the University of Bonn in Germany.
Emmanuel MwambaHOST
26:09
He also has a Bachelor of Theology from the University of Western Cape Town in South Africa and many other qualifications relating to the role as a man of God and also as an academic.
Emmanuel MwambaHOST
26:22
We bring him in here because I saw his comments in one of our chats where he was troubled by what and the role of the church played just the other week when they handed over Brian Mundwil and Mackey Bizul, who were sheltered at the United Nations, and the role of the church.

25 MINS LATER

Emmanuel MwambaHOST
51:57
That was Reverend Dr. Derek Kalanga.
Emmanuel MwambaHOST
52:00
He holds a PhD in Philosophy in Peace and Conflict Studies from the Dagamashot Institute for Peace and Conflict of the Copper Belt University.
Emmanuel MwambaHOST
52:10
He also holds a Master's of Arts in Ecumenical Theology from the University of Bonn in Germany.
Emmanuel MwambaHOST
52:16
He's a cleric based in Chingola, member in the United Church of Zambia.
Thomas KaratHOST
1:47
What happened next is worth watching closely, because it's the template.
Thomas KaratHOST
1:53
In February 2023, the University of Bonn fired her, officially over plagiarism in a book.
Thomas KaratHOST
2:01
A charge she has fought vehemently in court ever since and still contests.
Thomas KaratHOST
2:09
But notice the timing and notice what preceded it, because it was not a quiet academic inquiry, but a complaint that she was damaging the university's reputation with her positions on Ukraine.

7 MINS LATER

Ulrike GuérotGUEST
9:05
Well, perhaps we come back to your initial question about me being cancelled.
Ulrike GuérotGUEST
9:10
Because there is a link to the, say, Atlanticist orientation.
Ulrike GuérotGUEST
9:15
For those who don't know me and for those who don't know the case, I was professor at University of Bonn, which is a quite distinguished German university.
Ulrike GuérotGUEST
9:25
called Excellence Universities.

Unknown podcast

The Most Extreme Star Ever Found... And It Shouldn_t Exist

Sep 3 · 1 Mention

speaker_3NARRATOR
84:16
N-body simulations of dense young clusters have explored this pathway in detail.
speaker_3NARRATOR
84:21
Groups including those led by Samba and Banerjee at the University of Bonn ran simulations tracking the gravitational interactions of thousands of massive stars within cluster potentials matching R136.
speaker_3NARRATOR
84:34
They found that in approximately 30-40% of simulations, at least one merger event occurred within the first million years involving two stars each above 50 solar masses.
speaker_3NARRATOR
84:46
In roughly 10% of cases, the merger product exceeded 150 solar masses.
Gareth CliffHOST
3:38
While we're talking about men, here's some counterintuitive science that's worth paying attention to.
Gareth CliffHOST
3:43
Researchers at the University of Bonn and Maastricht took ninety-one healthy young men, gave forty-six of them fifty milligrams of testosterone gel.
Gareth CliffHOST
3:52
The other forty-five got a placebo, and then they let each man answer a few questions and report the results.
Gareth CliffHOST
3:59
The testosterone group lied significantly less than the placebo group.
Richard ShottonHOST
30:32
So the experiment that's quite interesting here, it's a 2004 study.
Richard ShottonHOST
30:36
Uh, it comes from Armin Falk at the University of Bonn, and again, it is a real-world study with real-world money.
Richard ShottonHOST
30:43
He sent out 9,846 letters asking for donations.
Richard ShottonHOST
30:49
Sometimes people just got a letter with information about the charity.

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