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Polykum Redaktion
44 articles
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People of ETH: How Do You Bring Order to Your Student Life?
We face challenges in our study life throughout our years in ETH. Sometimes everything gets entangled with each other. To keep everything in order is a difficult task.…
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People of ETH: A Knowledge Revolution
If you could launch a ‘knowledge revolution’ in your field of study, what is one established theory, concept, or required course you would completely abolish or fundamentally rewrite?…
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Post-Grad Blues, Who?
It may be hard to believe, but someday, your time at ETH Zurich will be behind you. That day will be too late to finally look up and…
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Could we dim the Sun?
We know that a change of more than 1.5 C in global temperatures would be disastrous. To even have a 50% chance of limiting the increase to the…
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Wider den Bewegungszwang
Warum das Universum aufhören würde zu existieren, wenn es die Wissenschaft nicht gäbe und über den schwachen Zusammenhang zwischen Paul Feyerabend und dem niederländischen Barock. Wer in nächster…
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Fantasy animation targets real life minorities
Despite being a storytelling medium empowering artist to delve into fictional worlds, animation is still heavily inspired by reality. Artists across the ages have reflected the political, sociocultural…
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Mensa Price Increase
We all know the feeling: you’re sitting in the last lecture just before lunch, feeling slightly (okay, let’s not lie and say very) hangry and conspicuously checking out…
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Satan on Tinder
Ben Sprenger, 24, pursuing a MSc in Robotics, Systems and Control. He’s practicing his drawing in the event someone ever asks him to “draw them like one of…
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They’re a 10, but…
Gabrielle Vance, 33, is a doctoral student in Earth Sciences who prefers peppers and sauces of 1 000 000 SHUs or fewer. Find more cartoons on Instagram @gabrielle_t_v.
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Metamorphic Facies of Hotness
Gabrielle Vance, 33, is a doctoral student in Earth Sciences who prefers peppers and sauces of 1 000 000 SHUs or fewer. Find more cartoons on Instagram @gabrielle_t_v