Goethe developed a new method for studying nature, both inorganic and organic. His intention was to uncover the natural law—the...
One hundred years ago, only a small percentage of the population believed in an afterlife; today, that number has risen...
Is the earth just a collection of lifeless matter—a solid rock floating in the vast cosmic void? Is life just an accident—an anomaly in a mechanical universe? A materialistic view hypothesizes about “abiogenesis”: how life could have emerged from a mechanical and dead world. It places the lifeless at the...
Cognition is a function of temperament. First, you seek in all directions—you need sanguinity, air. Phlegmatism, fluid, gives you perseverance,...
For several centuries, scientific materialism neglected the experiential presuppositions of its own research activities, striving to achieve an outside, disembodied,...
Johannes Kronenberg has been researching and working on sustainable development and its spiritual and anthroposophical dimensions for seven years. Now, he’s establishing a field of work for this within the Section for Agriculture. Wolfgang Held joined him for a conversation. Wolfgang Held: What does sustainability mean? Johannes Kronenberg: Sustainability or...
The more diverse a meadow is, the more stable its identity. That makes sense to us. But what shapes our...
Separate entities can either compete or develop strategies to cooperate. In either case, the starting point is separation. This is...
When art helps us deepen our understanding of nature, art becomes research. Eduardo Rincón, co-leader of the Agriculture Section, engages artistically and scientifically with his objects of study and talks about his oscillation between the two. He tells his story with science and art. We grew up on a large...
Biodiversity is a hot topic in academia today. It seems that wherever civilization spreads, species diversity dwindles—natural habitats are lost,...
Picture-forming methods like copper chloride crystallization, capillary dynamolysis, and round picture chromatography are now entering the era of computerized image...
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