Many of us wish that we'd live in a meritocracy, where the experts have the last say and help the society take the right choices. After all, that's part of the reason we love the internet, and the biggest reason why we would like the media to present information and science accurately, and not dumbed down. But believing the data is different than by reason of them being authority.

In February, Germany's Highest Court, the Bundesverfassungsgericht ruled on the motion of a German residing in the Swiss city of Zurich, to pressure the German government into trying to stop the operation of the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest machine ever built, and that also has an easy to misspell name.

Part 1: Hedy Lamarr, Engineer

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

- Brian Cox

Whenever I hear a politician harp on about how much he favors education, I just roll my eyes, because every politician that's ever lived has harped on education, and very few have done anything to improve it.

- Statler N Waldorf, on fivethirtyeight.com

You're looking forward to finishing you degree in Mechanical Engineering? Then there's a strong probability that you're not German.

As they say, "The truth will always come out. You just might not be alive anymore when it finally happens."

You can claim that your security policy has never been breached, as long as your policy is to not check security.

Germans are known for their high degree of organisation, their bureaucratic mentality, and, of course, their Autobahn (which, in fact, did not originate with Hitler). When these three things come together, what do you get? Flensburg, that's what.

Most connoisseurs of Science Fiction would agree: Orson Scott Card is a master of his art (even though some if his short stories are a big heap of WTF[1]). The Ender's Game series[2] is a comprehensive and quite realistic depiction of what the future might hold for us, and what a contact with an uncomprehensible alien race could be like.

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