Two guises of racism, disdain as well as envy Anne-Ruth Wertheim Discussions still focus on who can and who cannot be called racist, while the question of what racism actually is, is posed much less and is often fobbed off with vague descriptions in […]
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When politicians get involved in science
When politicians get involved in science It is 2022, the bicentenary of the birth of the Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, and this is being celebrated in all kinds of ways. In 1955, as a biology student, I […]
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Mendelian statue My article about what happened to the white marble statue of Mendel in the monastery garden of Brno in the Czech Republic has now also appeared in the magazine “Folia Mendeliana” of the famous Mendel Museum there!
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German translation of my Goosebook In April 2023, the Swiss children’s book publisher Baobab will publish the German translation of my book “The goose snatches the bread of the ducks, my childhood in a Japanese internment camp on the island Java”. Baobab Books is […]
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