Biodiversity is a hot topic in academia today. It seems that wherever civilization spreads, species diversity dwindles—natural habitats are lost,...
The leadership of the Natural Science Section changed in the new year. Johannes Wirz handed along his position to Vesna...
Matthew E. Kenyon is a lifelong student of Rudolf Steiner as well as a Ph.D. physicist who has worked for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for over twenty years on various projects including next-generation technology for future space telescopes beyond the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope. This essay reflects his...
Plant observation and its healing effect on the human-social. In July 2024, a seminar week on Goetheanistic plant observation took...
Humans have started to incorporate their intelligence into machines and will be left standing on the sidelines as fools, with...
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...
A quantum physicist annotated one of his talks with the following words: «I will tell you things that you understand...
Antarctica is under human protection, but human-induced climate disruption is undermining this endeavour. The melting of the ice-shelf, now categorised...
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...
For 35 years, Johannes Wirz supported and significantly shaped the work at the Research Institute at the Goetheanum. With his...
Self-education is a recurring theme in Goethe’s work, for example in his Bildungsromane and plays. However, this dimension of inner...
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