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RheinbergerDigital HumanitiesEpistemes of Modern AcousticsExperimental History of ScienceHistorical Epistemology of the Final TheoryHistory of the Max Planck SocietyIMPRSITLibraryLise Meitner Research Group (China)Max Planck Research Group (ASTRA)Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)Modern Geometry and the Concept of SpacePractices of Validation in the Biomedical SciencesReading & Writing Nature in Early Modern EuropeResearch Communication and ManagementResearch Group (Data, Media, Mind)The Construction of Norms in 17th to 19th-Century Europe & the United StatesTwentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation December 2025 Dec 25, 2025 Feuerwerk – Es mal so richtig krachen lassen! Deutschlandfunk Dagmar Schäfer interviewed on "Der Rest ist Geschichte" by Deutschlandfunk on the origins of black powder Go to Podcast (GER) Dec 17, 2025 China and Mongolia are battling to control massive dust storms The Conversation Han Cheng in The Conversation on the impacts of dust storms on China and Mongolia Go to article Dec 11, 2025 ChatGPT’s Self-Serving Optimism The Atlantic Lorraine Daston is cited in The Atlantic on the objectivity of AI Go to Article November 2025 Nov 26, 2025 “The Secrets Glaciers Tell“ Harvard Magazine Harvard Magazine mentions "Metals, Minerals, and the Life Cycle” project Go to article Nov 12, 2025 „Wir können auf China nicht verzichten“ Süddeutsche Zeitung Anna Lisa Ahlers interviewed in Süddeutsche Zeitung on China and its global role in the sciences Go to article (German) Nov 2, 2025 India's First Socialist. The Untold Story of Dr Narayan Krishna India's World Ole Birk Laursen in India's World about the Indian socialist Narayan Krishna Go to article October 2025 Oct 23, 2025 "Kaboom!" and "Extinction, Fast and Slow" London Review of Books Lorraine Daston on images of extinction for the London Review of Books and on The LRB Podcast More Oct 22, 2025 'Java Man,’ the first Homo erectus discovered, is finally going home National Geographic Dyna Rochmyaningsih quotes Dwirahmi Suryandari in National Geographic on the restitution of "Java Man" Go to article Oct 17, 2025 Why China's waste incinerators are running out of trash ThinkChina Erik Baark for ThinkChina on why China's waste incinerators are running out of trash Go to article September 2025 Sep 1, 2025 „Wer besitzt Wissen? Globale Perspektiven auf Recht und Wissenschaft“ Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Dagmar Schäfer featured in the 2024 MPS yearbook with her article "Who owns knowledge?" Go to article (German) July 2025 Jul 29, 2025 Knowledge That Makes Waves Max Planck Society's MaxMag features MPIWG Journalist-in-Residence program and alumna Sahana Ghosh Go to article Jul 21, 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill: Is Trump’s Climate Rollback China’s Opportunity? ThinkChina Erik Baark on the "Big Beautiful Bill Act" and the implicit consequences for China in ThinkChina Go to Article Jul 14, 2025 Rules, A Conversation with Prof. Lorraine Daston Zukunft Denken Lorraine Daston on Zukunft Denken on rules, their history, and their ambiguities Go to Podcast Jul 7, 2025 Jacob Schmidt-Madsen on the Cultural History of Board Games 5 Games 4 Doomsday (5G4D) Schmidt-Madsen on how "Snakes & Ladders" served as a cosmic roadmap of fate and storytelling on 5G4D Go to Podcast June 2025 Jun 26, 2025 South Asian Games with Jacob Schmidt-Madsen International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Jacob Schmidt-Madsen interviewed by The Channel on games and their societal and ideological implications Go to Podcast Jun 25, 2025 Lässt sich mit KI unsere Vergangenheit besser verstehen, Matteo Valleriani? detektor.fm Matteo Valleriani talks to Jessica Hughes of detektor.fm about ways to employ AI in studying history go to podcast (ger) Jun 11, 2025 „Gelingt es den Unis nicht, sich zu wehren, müssen sie mit massivem Bedeutungsverlust rechnen“ WELT Rudolf Stichweh interviewed by WELT on the political situation facing American universities Go to Article (German, Paywall) Jun 3, 2025 Gehen auf dünnem Eis nd In nd, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger reflects on his German translation of Of Grammatology, 50 years ago Go to article May 2025 May 29, 2025 Die Frage nach Gott: Zu unpräzise für die Wissenschaft! radioeins vom rbb Alexander Blum on radioeins (rbb) podcast on the existence of God and its relationship to science Go to Podcast May 26, 2025 Large Language Models That Power AI Should Be Publicly Owned The Guardian Matteo Valleriani publishes open letter on large language models (LLMs) in The Guardian Go to Article Load More