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Giorgio de Santillana was professor of the history of science at MIT.

Hertha von Deschen was professor of the history of science at Frankfurt University.

So they're no lightweights.

They refer to the fact that a series of numbers keep cropping up in ancient myths all around the world associated with imagery.

We'll be coming back to that as well.

Later, turning our attention now to molecular biologist Peter Duisburg, he is a German-American who completed a PhD at the University of Frankfurt before moving to the US and performing acclaimed work at the University of California.

Duisburg insisted, until his death in January 2026, that HIV does not cause AIDS and, above all else, that the antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV are a big part of what is causing immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, in the first place.

He specified that HIV is a harmless passenger virus, not meeting the definition of a microbe that causes a specific illness.

So Futury is our startup factory in the Rhine-Main area, which was established in October 25 within a federal program and as a joint endeavor between the Frankfurt School of Finance and management, as well as the Rhine-Main universities.

And the Rhine-Main universities are the University of Frankfurt, the University of Mainz, and the Technical University of Darmstadt.

And so Futury allows us to bridge exactly what you said, the gap between the post-university phase and helps us to leave a purely research-oriented mindset behind.

and move towards a more business-driven environment with a focus on market, customer, and investor perspectives, and scaling at the end of the journey of the startup.

It's a gut feeling that operates outside of direct awareness and can only be measured with indirect tools like implicit association tests that measure how long it takes us to sort low self-esteem descriptors like bad or stupid and high self-esteem descriptors like smart or valuable into categories of self like I, self, et cetera.

But in a study out of Goethe University Frankfurt, researchers did just that.

They measured both the implicit and explicit self-esteem of teenagers with and without social anxiety.

Then they told them, "Now you have to give an impromptu speech, and we're gonna video you and evaluate you.

and you'll see many more.

This is a PhD plastic surgeon, oral surgeon from the University of Frankfurt, Dr. Sharm Ghanati.

We're lucky to have those people to be able to actually show hard evidence of why.

Now, I'm not here to say I'm anti-root canal.

Vardesha.

Professor of Ministry of Science at the University of Frankfurt, who published a book way back in the 1960s called Hamlet's Milk, which was the first book to draw attention to this phenomenon, that numbers in ancient myths not appear to be random.

They appear to encode the procession of the equinoxes.

And they suggested, derrily for their time, that this was the work of what they called some almost underlievable ancestor civilization.

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Hallo und herzlich willkommen zu einer neuen Folge Talk Social Science to Me, der Podcast für Sozialwissenschaften an der Goethe Uni in Frankfurt.

Mein Name ist Carlotta und ich möchte heute darüber sprechen, inwiefern generative KI-Technologien anschlussfähig an patriarchale sowie faschistische Gesellschaftsentwürfe sind.

Dazu werde ich später noch mit Josef Bahler, Philosoph und Mitarbeiter am Schwerpunkt Biotechnologie, Natur und Gesellschaft sprechen.

Isn't Alex Karp have both Black and Jewish heritage? And I guess we're getting at people have identities that seem out of line.

Alex Karp, Black mother, Jewish father, grew up in a socialist household, has a philosophy PhD from Goethe University, spent his formative years intellectually in Europe, in Germany and other places.

Somebody who, when he was brought on to Palantir politically, was kind of a milquetoast centrist.

He actually donated to Joe Biden in 2020.

That's why the better term is actually FDOJ or fatty degenerative osteonecrosis of the jawbone or simply cavitation, basically just a hollow space where no bone formed.

And the interesting thing is, even though it's controversially debated, we've actually been working with the University of Frankfurt for a long time now with Professor Ghanati.

And through biopsies, by analyzing those tissue samples, we've already been able to demonstrate this pathology.

So it's no longer just someone thinking there might be something there.