Stephan Matthiesen

The Open Studies course "Climate and Human History" at the Office for Lifelong Learning, the University of Edinburgh, looks at the impact of climate and climatic variations on certain periods of world history. It runs for 10 afternoons from 12 January 2010, each week on Tuesday at 2pm-4pm.

13. November 2009: Why shouldn’t parents have perfect babies? (Press release, ESRC Genomics Forum)

Pressemeldung des Genomics Forum der Universität Edinburgh zum Biomedical Ethics Film Festival (20-22. Nov.). Als einer der Organisatoren werde ich mit der Stellungnahme zitiert, dass unser zunehmendes biomedizinische Wissen fundamentale Fragen über die Natur des Menschen, die Individualität und die Freiheit bzw. Determiniertheit des Lebens aufwirft.

"... he noticed the green liana which had grown from the pot plant and reached his body. Every movement became impossible, and every scream was smothered by the plant material that was growing around his mouth and throat. ... Were the plants taking revenge on humankind, or had aliens conquered the planet? Dr Stephan Matthiesen ... personally experienced this terrifying scenario and lived to tell the tale." This appeared in today's Guardian, one of the biggest British quality newspapers. What's going on here?

With new content and new technology, we have relaunched the website of our editorial team science-texts today. Unlike the old static page, the new site contains not only detailed information about Andrea Kamphuis' and my work, but also texts and news about topics that we are interested in - in particular about the formation of structures and patterns in Nature.