From Bioblast
Oroboros 25 years - since 1992
A celebration in the spirit of Gentle Science
A celebration in the spirit of Gentle Science
Impressions
Programme 2017-12-12
- Filou, Stiftgasse 12, Innsbruck
- 18:18 Xmas Glühwein at Filou - glowing art by Winfried Platzgummer
- 20:00 Percussion by Engelbert Gagl – |serial music with bronce art by Richard Agreiter: alfred peschek: poésies lyriques 16 pur rythme
- 20:20 Oroboros 25: Science with thoughts
- 24:00 Midnight special
Science with thoughts - a brief reading list
- Nietzsche F (1886) Die fröhliche Wissenschaft. A Kröner Verlag Stuttgart:330pp. - »Bioblast link«
- Friedrich Nietzsche gave an answer to the question What is life?: Life, that means for us to transform all that we are continuously into lights and flames.
- Schrödinger E (1944) What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell. Cambridge Univ Press (1st edition). - »Bioblast link«
- What is life? is a good question to ask. For all of us, in biology, physics, economy, arts. Life is the economical processing of resources: energy, materials, information. We all learn from asking the question What is life - finding answers in our own variation and context.
- Hofstadter DR (1979) Gödel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid. A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll. Harvester Press:499pp. - »Bioblast link« - Douglas Hofstadter, the son of a physics Nobel laureate, gives us a 500 pages (or approximately 800 pages translation into German) explosion of relationships - isomorphic worlds - of music (BACH), pictures (ESCHER), and mathematics (GÖDEL). In the middle is the Ouroboros by ESCHER (1952).
- Ende M (1979) The neverending story. Firebird (translation 1983):445pp. - »Bioblast link« - The neverending story takes us with the Ouroboros into a world of fantasy. To quote Nietzsche: These people from past times hada sense for dreaming and did not need primarily to fall asleep.
- Talsma WR (1980) Wiedergeburt der Klassiker. Anleitung zur Entmechanisierung der Musik. Wort und Welt Verlag Innsbruck, Thaur 1980. - »Bioblast link« - Rebirth of classics. A guide to the demechanization of music. To be seen in the context of society, science, engineering, energy and life style.
- McDougall C (2009) Born to run: the hidden tribe, the ultra-runners and the greatest race the world has ever seen. Profile Books London:287pp. - »Bioblast link« - We met in Norway: 2013 Man in Extreme Environments. In this book, mitochondria were perhaps never mentioned, but the book is full of mitochondria and cell research.
- Schatz G (2011) Feuersucher. Die Jagd nach dem Geheimnis der Lebensenergie. Wiley-VCH Verlag, Verlag Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Zuerich:221pp. - »Bioblast link« - Schatz G (2012) The fires of life. Annu Rev Biochem 81: 34–59. - If you think of fire engines, heat engines: Yes - in our cells. A pioneer, ex-Austrian (like Schrödinger) and Gentle Scientist.
- Lane N (2002) Oxygen: The molecule that made the world. Oxford Univ Press:374pp. - »Bioblast link«
- Lane N (2005) Power, sex, suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life. Oxford University Press. 354 pp. - »Bioblast link«
- Coopersmith J (2010) Energy, the subtle concept. Oxford Univ Press:400pp. - »Bioblast link« - Power, energy, force, (pressure ?) .. some alchemy is missing, but: a great treatise of the difficulties of finding the right words. In the tradition of alchemy, the Ouroboros is present but hidden.
- Kahneman D (2011) Thinking, fast and slow. Penguin Books 499 pp. - »Bioblast link«
- Silver N (2012) The signal and the noise. The art and science of prediction. Penguin Press:534 pp. - »Bioblast link« - 85% of biomedical science is not reproducible - a message included in MitoEAGLE.
- Perteck D (2017) Das Buch Ouroboros. Gesammelte Legenden von Zauberern und Dämonen. Books on Demand Norderstedt:609pp. - »Bioblast link« - Perhaps, just forget this book and go back to the beginning - there is no end.
Some links
- Oroboros and Ouroboros
- MiPart - For many years Mitochondrial Physiology and Art - MiPArt gave us a series of opportunities to meet with colleagues and friends on topics beyond the daily struggles of science and business.
- MiPArt and tempo giusto
- Engelbert Gagl - download pdf: Using bronce sculptures and steel statues as musical instruments, Engelbert Gagl gives a different meaning to instruments. When we were travelling to symposia, workshops or expeditions with our instruments packed in aluminum boxes or Pelicases, many people thought of Oroboros Instruments as a muscial band.
- MiPArt_10#Willem_Retze_Talsma Willem_Retze_Talsma
- Uwe Kliemt
- MiPart at Oroboros
- Agreiter Richard
- Odra Noel
- Kirchebner Harald
- Weinberger Hannes
- Platzgummer Winfried