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YouTuber DoktorWhatson spoke to winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, Reinhard Genzel, about Einstein, black holes and having the courage to take risks.
 

Black holes, singularity, 5th dimension? YouTuber Doktor Whatson talks to Dr Silke Britzen (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy) and Dr Frank Ohme (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) about how realistically the plot and individual scenes are portrayed in the film.

Do the events of the Universe just follow the laws of nature, or is there maybe a will, a consciousness that controls everything, behind it? What can be inferred from the movements of the stars? Harald Lesch takes a trip into the world of metaphysics.

In this video MrWissen2go and Johannes Krause from Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History show that Europe was occupied in several migratory waves. For this reason scientists have concluded that we’re all migrants.

Svante Pääbo, Director at the Max Planck Institut for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, was awarded the Körber Prize for his pioneering work in the field of paleogenetics on 7th September 2018. He is considered the founder of this research focus.

Humans have been on the Earth for around 300,000 years. But how did we become what we are today? 
Mirko Drotschmann & Harald Lesch – The history of humans Terra X

Geoengineering or Climate Engineering is an attempt to mitigate the greenhouse effect through technological solutions. But is that a good idea? What approaches are already realistic today? What are the pros – and the cons? 

In the Amazon region there are terrible forest fires every year. Many of these fires are started deliberately. The situation is worsened by climate change and deforestation in the past. Inactive politicians and consumer behaviour have also contributed to the destruction of rainforests. How has the situation developed in the Amazon over the past few decades? 

The Arctic is warming up because of climate change. What does that mean for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere? Friedemann Reum and Mathias Göckede from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry are measuring greenhouse gas concentration in the air on location – in the remote Ambarchik, on the Siberian coast of the North Polar Sea. With the data they obtain there, they can calculate how much carbon dioxide and methane is escaping from the permafrost ground into the atmosphere.

Just imagine that music is colourful – if a particular song is played, you can just see everything in red and yellow. Sunday tastes like strawberries. And if someone says the word “mud”, you feel cold. Sounds a bit weird? Many people actually do perceive the world in same way or similarly – people with synaesthesia?

Humans are incomplete, they often act for reasons of convenience and self-indulgence. Some politicians would like to change that, especially if that behaviour costs public money, or is detrimental to health or the environment. “Nudging” describes the attempt to guide human behaviour in a specific direction without specific rules or prohibitions by making a supposedly better alternative more attractive. One major topic in this context is organ donation. 

Synapses not only transmit electrical signals from one nerve cell to the next, they can also amplify or weaken the intensity of the signal. This so-called synaptic plasticity is the basis of learning and memory.

Artificial intelligence is a huge topic. The Doktor Whatson team got together with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems to make a big video series on the subject of “Artificial Intelligence”. 

Ranga Yogeshwar travels to the research hotspots in the field of artificial intelligence in Europe, the USA and China. What’s coming our way next? How will artificial intelligence change our working environment and our everyday life?

This custom explainer video explains what artificial intelligence is – AI for short. youknow is one of the leading providers of explainer videos and e-learning solutions in German-speaking countries.