Seeing: * my supervisor defend her habilitation, which is something that doesn’t exist in academia in the U.S. But basically, once you have a doctoral degree, “the habilitation requires the candidate to write a professorial thesis based on independent scholarly accomplishments, reviewed by and defended before an academic committee in a process similar to that for …
Tag: Five Senses Friday
Five Senses Friday no. 7
Seeing: * the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in medicine, Harald zur Hausen, give a lecture on the links between infectious disease and cancer. The discovery of the link between HPV and cervical cancer? Yeah, that was him. * lots of dear friends at a double baby shower in D.C. We attended for a few minutes …
Five Senses Friday no. 6
Seeing: * my Mom in Germany! * the red cliffs of Helgoland. * the Herrenhäuser Gärten of Hannover. * views of Hamburg from the top of the St. Michaelis Kirche. Hearing: * the waves crashing against the shore from our hotel balcony. Tasting: * baked potatoes. * Alsterwasser = beer + Sprite. Don’t knock it …
Five Senses Friday no. 5
Seeing: * thousands of bejeweled, be-feathered, and be-leathered LGBT folks gathered in Hamburg last weekend for the Christopher Street Day festival. I somehow find it touching that Gay Pride here is named after the street in New York City where the Stonewall Riots occurred. Hearing: * Hindi from the movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, …