. One of my students tried to find out what ChatGPT had to say about my early life. Below is the answer, annotated by me. I found 10 major mistakes. For example, it freely invented names and professions of my parents, and placed the city of Munich into the USA. “Joachim Frank was born on … Continue reading
. I recently found this image on Twitter — sorry, I didn’t keep track of the source. It reminded me of a stone I once found in Ierapetra, in the 1960’s, a blue-green stone with quartz inclusion marking an exact letter ‘Z’. I called it Z-stone and carried it around with my possessions for years. … Continue reading
Portrait of Sylvette David in green chair, 1954 . I just saw this painting again on twitter. It always gives me a jolt of recognition; it transports me back into high school (the Fürst Johann von Moritz Gymnasium) in my home town in Germany. Some works of contemporary artists were reproduced in our history text … Continue reading
. This is what I found out as I recently visited the University of Freiburg in Germany, my Alma Mater: Herr Waldseemueller was a cartograph in Freiburg who in 1507 published an updated map of the world, which included the New World, a mere sliver on the left. It was made from several large woodcuts … Continue reading
