They were new. They were literally the hot new thing. Germany wanted to replace all their gas street lights with electric light bulbs. So an important question was how do you maximize the visible light given off by a hot filament?
This wasn't the first time someone had tried to make a scanning version of the TEM. German researcher Manfred von Ardenne built an early prototype in the 1930s, but it was destroyed during WWII. When Crewe revived Ardenne's design, he made several drastic improvements, and by 1970 he had this.
that this is all pre-internet, pre-digital, all this kind of stuff, but he's talking about things that morphed into the now. And that's when you realize how long some of these trends have been germinating. That's maybe a good way to put it. I would suggest that what we have now is the logical end result, but being a continuum, we're not at the end. We're getting farther down the road. This is all stuff that to me, we were talking about, and this gets to what you were saying earlier, in an amorphous sense. That we're on our way to something. I'm not going to talk about what to do
to examine how it actually started is a very complex, you know, story, and there's many factors to it. But the Versailles Treaty just said it was Germany's fault, and then Germany had to do all these payments to the allies. It couldn't create a new economy.
with your novelistic style, but based 100% on the facts." And that is like... In German we say "Spagat." How do you say that? A split, like when you do with your legs, like... It's hard, you know? Because with a very fluent, sophisticated language, you can easily overpower the reader.
time quite a bit, and then it's not easy to write about it, but it's very interesting to think about. And I would love to find the Germany. Because they really cared, you know? If you're High Command, you don't want to start a war that you're going to lose, you know? Very bad.
time quite a bit, and then it's not easy to write about it, but it's very interesting to think about. And I would love to find the German." You know, even though he's not even German, he's Austrian. But that was a problem.
will bait the Soviets into overexpansion Now, we don't want them to invade West Germany, but the Afghans are expendable. So, if we can bait the Soviets into Afghanistan and bog them down, we will be adding straw to the camel's back.
You know, Germany needs that too. Germany is stuck in Europe. It doesn't have access to the world's oceans.
It's a seaborne empire. Germany is so weakened by the invasion of Poland, there is literally nothing left.
into the phones of all of our allies, prime ministers, Chancellor of West Germany, prime minister of England, president of France. This is a game that's going on all the time. And and privacy is just not part of the new world. Why would a government want to hack the founder of Amazon's phone?
good against cruise missiles but not necessarily haven't proven effective against ballistic missiles so far. So Germany's also working hard to see if this capability can be developed but uh you know it takes time to develop this system to test them and to make them effective and produced at you know at at
German authorities say that they are seeking the extradition of a Ukrainian man suspected of helping sabotage the Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. He has been arrested in Croatia. The arrest revives a
Croatian police detained Volodymyr Z on a European arrest warrant. Germany issued the warrant for his alleged role in sabotaging the Nord Stream pipelines. Based on the current state of the investigation, we believe he's one of the suspects that divers who attached
We're seeing the government in Israel shifting farther and farther to the right with comments like these. German support for Israel right now, do you see it eroding? Well, I think we are now waiting for a new government. We are waiting for elections. This is a democracy and I
terrible and I wish for another coalition in which these two parties and these radical extremes from both sides do not play a role. As well as in Germany all over the place with extremes, you have very bad results, but you should not you should go for a midstream and and and and and centered positions. This is, I think, a Christian
think it was easier for me to come to Germany than to stay in Turkey. Germany has more than 420 universities and colleges. So picking one from abroad can be a challenge. I had many countries in my mind. Austria was one, Australia was one, Germany was one, United Kingdom was one. I finally
Most non-EU international students in Germany are required to have a blocked account. That's called a conto in German. The requirement is €11,94 a year from which a student can withdraw €992 a month for their living expenses. But that amount doesn't go very far in many
extracurricular activity to work out. We speak English like most of the people they know that I'm not so good in German. Of course they speak a bit in German as well so that I can learn German as well. So that's one good motivation that I get to learn German.
And so we were able to add onto that that do these mother trees not just provide seed but they also helped the seed succeed. Germinate and succeed. Right. Yeah. I was kind of really struck by one of the examples in your book about how the then forest management
After an incredible series of a process to try to seek the papers to get to America, his family was able to eventually immigrate and escape Germany. But this was the moment people often say, why didn't more Jews leave, or why didn't they get out? We can look back at history and see how it unfolds, but they couldn't at that time.
Any question? Yes. So you mentioned about countries and governments taking the lead on AI, and the examples you gave, Germany versus China, are very different-- US. --sorry, US versus China.
So I talked about chicken-- either fried or smothered. German immigrants come to Pennsylvania, take root in the countryside, and they had a creamed chicken and waffle tradition.
German communist who's working with Sorge.
Germans never-- they suspected, but they never knew.
Germans obviously are so green they have a actual successful environmental party with that name.
Germany-- and this is only the time of the 1960s-- had a very productive post-war period,
Germany was on the height of its business cycle last year.
Germany is an interesting contradiction, because Germany is now a full employment society.
Germany is always slower in adapting to new economic circumstances.
German officers were encouraged to go to brothels.
Germany declares war on us several days later.
Germany-- the most populous country in Europe-- has 237 people per square kilometer.
German customs officials were wondering why he had so much money when they saw him on a train.
Germany's very good. And I think it will probably be one of those two.
Germs . Don't go near my child.
Germany was, we thought, the most cultured nation in Europe.
Germany is so strong and so good and so perfectly administered.
German parents are much more moderate than that extreme.
Germans are much more open with difficult topics with their kids than we are.
Germans have a much lower rate of teen pregnancy, a much lower rate of teen abortion, and a much lower rate of HIV incidence.
Germans have a sense of community in the sense that, if their kids gets in trouble that people will help them.
Germans sort of run the International Federation, and there tend to be three or four World Cups on German tracks every year.
German Shepherds sniff us when you get on the train.
Germany is another. Some in Japan.
germs before you got there.
German technology, we won't say anything about.
Germany already has over 1,000 miles.
Germany for example um uh so so so there definitely places where it's more
Germfree animals their immune systems are really whacked. And what we realize there's several studies now coming out.