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    insightLMU is the international edition of the LMU Munich newsletter. Supported by experienced education and science journalists, insightLMU provides up-to-date information on new University developments, and student and faculty achievements. It also features interesting people from across the institution and highlights latest research findings with appealing stories. It aims at LMU’s visiting fellows, partner universities and friends from around the world. insightLMU is published and emailed to subscribers on a quarterly basis. Please take a look at the current issue that LMU makes available below.
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    Episodes (22)

    The Mega-Megacity

    The Mega-Megacity
    Metropolitan Tokyo is the largest built-up area in the world. How does such an urban machine work? How does it deal with its own inevitable decay? Japanologist Evelyn Schulz has been studying how residents use its urban spaces and cope with the attendant risks.
    insightLMU - 2011
    enJanuary 09, 2012
    japan
    tokyo
    insight
    urban
    decay

    Interdisciplinary Insights: The Calculator of Truth

    Interdisciplinary Insights: The Calculator of Truth
    Hannes Leitgeb aims to push mathematics deep into the domain of philosophy. His goal is to uncover the logical rules governing the workings of the brain. This makes him a valued partner for neuroscientists. The internationally renowned expert was recently awarded one of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Professorships. He is setting up the first university-based Center for Mathematical Philosophy in Europe – which will explore the interface between logic, mathematics and cognitive sciences.
    insightLMU - 2011
    enJuly 05, 2011
    mathematics
    brain
    philosophy
    insight
    international

    Natural Sciences: The play of forces between core and crust

    Natural Sciences: The play of forces between core and crust
    Geophysicist Hans-Peter Bunge studies the dynamic interactions between the interior of the Earth and its surface. As part of a large-scale project he is now investigating the formation of the South Atlantic over the past 200 million years. The plan is to collect and analyze rock samples, survey the topography of the land surface and the seafloor, probe below the seafloor, and investigate the planet’s innermost structures using seismic waves that pass through or around the whole of the globe.
    insightLMU - 2011
    enJuly 05, 2011
    formation
    surface
    tectonic
    insight
    international

    Law, Economics and Social Sciences: The impulsive voter

    Law, Economics and Social Sciences: The impulsive voter
    The unknown voter is a difficult creature to pin down. What are his personal, social and political priorities? What kinds of information guide his voting intentions? Who gets his vote – and why? The unattached voter gives campaign managers sleepless nights and poses a real dilemma for pollsters. The number of German voters who remain undecided until late in the campaign is on the rise. Communication scientists would like to know why − and what factors finally tip the scale.
    insightLMU - 2011
    enJuly 05, 2011
    campaign
    voter
    international
    newsletter
    lmu

    Humanities and Cultural Studies: Architects of Doom

    Humanities and Cultural Studies: Architects of Doom
    Accused of being a major driving force behind the wars in Yugoslavia, Ratko Mladic eluded capture for 15 years. He now awaits trial before a UN tribunal in Den Haag. How did figures like the former military leader of the Bosnian Serbs come to wield such power? How could multiethnic Yugoslavia collapse within a single generation? According to Marie-Janine Calic, an expert on Southeastern Europe, the state was brought down not by ethnic hatreds, but by a deliberate policy of self-serving egoism.
    insightLMU - 2011
    enJuly 05, 2011
    news
    europe
    yugoslavia
    insight
    international

    Interdisciplinary Insights: Itchy arms, aching head

    Interdisciplinary Insights: Itchy arms, aching head
    Chronic illnesses often make their first appearance in early childhood. Recurring head- aches and neurodermatitis are two of the most common. Both of these conditions are due to a combination of genetic and environmental factors, and the lifestyles of patients play a significant role in their development. Researchers at LMU are actively investigating these links – in the hope of identifying the underlying genetic causes.
    insightLMU - 2011
    enApril 08, 2011
    childhood
    insight
    international
    newsletter
    chronic illness

    Life Sciences: Hidden Treasures

    Life Sciences: Hidden Treasures
    The domestication of the donkey, the genetic diversity of the cheetah and the ancestry of the cucumber. A pretty heterogeneous list – but the projects being pursued by the palaeoanatomist Professor Joris Peters and the botanist Professor Susanne Renner do have one thing in common. None of them would be possible without the many unique and irreplaceable specimens in the Bavarian State Collections of Natural History. And there is little doubt that the keys to many other scientific mysteries are slumbering in the storerooms.
    insightLMU - 2011
    enApril 08, 2011
    news
    insight
    international
    newsletter
    genetic diversity

    Law, Economics and Social Sciences: A delicate balacing act

    Law, Economics and Social Sciences: A delicate balacing act
    Multinational firms are the driving forces of economic globalization. They invest in emerging markets and establish subsidiaries far from their home bases. Where these subsidiaries are located and what form they take depends crucially on an assessment of the political risks that foreign firms may encounter. Professor Monika Schnitzer and Dr. Iris Kesternich of the Institute of Comparative Economics have studied how such risks may affect the financial structures of subsidiary companies in foreign countries.
    insightLMU - 2011
    enApril 08, 2011
    companies
    international
    newsletter
    emerging markets
    lmu

    Natural Sciences: Bone-hard evidence

    Natural Sciences: Bone-hard evidence
    Raging marauders or heroic warriors? What were the Vikings really like? How did they master a demanding environment? How did they form trading networks and what did they use as trade goods? Answers to these questions may be found at Haithabu, now a candidate for inclusion in the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites. The anthropologist Gisela Grupe has been using chemical methods to tease clues to Viking lifestyles from skeletal remains and organic materials found at Haithabu. Her results challenge some cherished interpretations.
    insightLMU - 2011
    enApril 08, 2011
    insight
    international
    vikings
    warrior
    newsletter
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