What's the best way to teach participation techniques? Here's a workshop story about the power of experiential learning…

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2011/07/a-story-about-the-power-of-experiential-learning

#facilitation #learning #workshop #story #ExperientialLearning #MPI #eventprofs

New route into #2D materials: Research team from #TUD, #MPI-MSP and #HZDR produces ultra-clean #MXenes with outstanding electrical performance, opening the door to next-generation electronics, sensors, and energy technologies.
▶️ https://www.hzdr.de/presse/ti3c2cl2

Image: B. Schröder/HZDR

That is interesting. Expected AI to do the job (entirely).

Good work AEI MPI.

""There's no way that you can do a full investigation of every possible signal that you detect, because doing that still requires a person and eyeballs"[...].

Eventually, at the supercomputer facilities of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany, algorithms designed to spot RFI sorted the wheat from the chaff, reducing those 12 billion to [...] 1,000."

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/search-for-life/this-seti-program-is-chasing-down-its-final-100-signals-could-one-of-them-be-from-aliens

#SETI #AEI #MPI

Over the Moon landfill cheese sold in Waikato sparks food safety warning https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/over-the-moon-landfill-cheese-sold-in-waikato-sparks-food-safety-warning/4HQF2YD5ZVFX3OGO2D7YQVQPEE/ 22 Dec, 2025.

"The cheese was supposedly taken from Putāruru Landfill and found for sale in the Waikato town on Sunday.

NZFS said the cheese is not safe to eat as it was not refrigerated."

Serious food safety warning – dumped cheese being sold. Press Release: MPI / New Zealand Food Safety. https://www.mpi.govt.nz/news/media-releases/serious-food-safety-warning-dumped-cheese-being-sold or Scoop https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2512/S00668/serious-crash-mount-eden-auckland-city.htm 22 December 2025.

Special Notice: Deleted Batches https://overthemoondairy.co.nz/pages/special-notice-deleted-batches Over the Moon Dairy. 22 December 2025.

Safety concerns after cheese dumped at Waikato landfill, taken and re-sold https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/582482/safety-concerns-after-cheese-dumped-at-waikato-landfill-taken-and-re-sold RNZ. 22 December 2025.

#Cheese dumped in #Waikato landfill being resold, #MPI says https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360917865/cheese-dumped-waikato-landfill-being-resold-mpi-says Stuff. December 22, 2025.

#Aotearoa #NewZealand #foodsafety #NZ

Haben #Tiere Gedanken und Gefühle?

Ein internat. Forschungsteam unter Leitung der #UniLeipzig und des #MPI-EVA hat herausgefunden, dass sich Menschen aus verschiedenen kulturellen Kontexten in dieser Frage überraschend einig sind: Sie nehmen an, dass Tiere grundsätzlich denken und fühlen können, sie schreiben ihnen aber keine menschenähnlichen Gedanken zu. Das hat Implikationen für den Umgang mit Tieren.
https://www.uni-leipzig.de/newsdetail/artikel/wie-menschen-tiere-sehen-sie-denken-und-fuehlen-aber-nicht-wie-wir-2025-12-17
#Psychologie
Foto: Colourbox

#IMTEresearch: 𝗗𝗙𝗚 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 €𝟰.𝟯𝗠 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁-𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗣𝗜 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿

The @dfg_public has approved a major research proposal submitted by the University of Lübeck, UKSH, and the @fraunhofergesellschaft providing approximately €4.3 million for funding a novel Magnetic Particle Imaging (#MPI) scanner.

Purchased (from a major retailer, not proud of that but it is what it is) four Mini PCs each for $129 U.S. Intel N150, 12gb ram, 2.5gbps nic, for substantially less than a 32gb #dram #sodimm kit alone! 4 whole computers (without storage or OS. The version with a 128gb ssd and Windows is $169.) These for a #cluster, so 16 cores, disturbed 48gb memory. Yes, existing old 10gbps nfs server and a small 10/2.5gbps switch.

But with #RAM prices out of control? ~$60 per core and 48gb #MPI #compute!