Ingenting kommer ur ingenting – vad medeltiden kan lära oss om framtiden

Shakespeare byggde sina dramer på medeltida krönikor. Astrid Lindgren lånade motiv från gamla riddarromaner. Medeltidsforskaren Sofia Lodén återvänder till latinets ex nihilo nihil fit – ingenting kommer ur ingenting – för att visa hur äldre berättelser kan

Sammanhang: ...Repliken Nothing will come of nothing anspelar på den latinska frasen ex nihilo nihil fit, ”ingenting kommer ur ingenting”. ...

Omnämnda platser: Normandie, Barnbiblioteket Saga, Europa. Omnämnda personer: Kung Magnus Eriksson, Kung Lear, Hertig Fredrik.

”Scientists Portrayed as Mass Murderers”

For a Swedish version, read here. Outside an underground lecture hall at Tokyo University a crowd is bustling. Neuroscientists, psychologists, physicists, computer scientists and other experts have gathered here to discuss consciousness – the elusive inner

Sammanhang: ...In hindsight, he thinks it might have been better to initially release the results more quietly rather than presenting them on a theater stage. In his written responses, he says nothing about his post on X regarding nuclear weapons. I write to him, mentioning that Hakwan Lau believes the tweet equates the signatories of the open letter with mass murderers and that it intensified the conflict. ...

Omnämnda platser: Photo, Conducting, Venice. Omnämnda personer: John Lennon, with questions, Philip Goff.