Screenshot of the TimeRide Cologne Website


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Technology

Going back in time with VR and TimeRide Cologne

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2022-05-27

So today, I was in the lucky position to test-ride a service called TimeRide Cologne. The company promises you a thrilling journey through time and in my case a view of Cologne in 1926. The ride is in VR, but the experience was much more than that.

How it all…

An elephant is playing with paper planes and trumpets are playing in the clouds. The Mastodon logo is in the centre of the image.


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Technology

Mastodon – A Twitter alternative

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2022-05-20

So a couple of weeks ago, I wrote that Elon Musk is about to buy Twitter and that I will look for an alternative. Although it seems the buy is on hold at the moment, nobody knows what will happen. I am using a new service for a couple…

The image shows the title of my dissertation: "From Layard to Lara Croft"


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Academia Personal

The defense of my PhD

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2022-05-13

Last Wednesday, I actually had my PhD defense. It was intense, but I am very very happy, that it is over now. I usually don’t get nervous anymore when I speak in front of people, but this was something else. It lasted 1,5 hours, but after that, I got…

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Movies

Why “Eternals” IS a bad movie

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2022-05-06

Nearly one year ago, I wrote an article called Why “Eternals” will be a bad movie. After finally watching it, I can confidently say, that I was not wrong. In this article I want to describe the movie from my perspective and illustrate wider implications movies like Eternals have.

What…

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Academia Personal

Musk will buy Twitter – Where will we meet next?

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2022-04-29

So Elon Musk will buy Twitter. Who cares you ask? I actually do and I do care for several reasons. It is not about granting free speech or flexing with his unbelievable amount of money. It is about much more and this holds true especially for academia in my…

A coffee cup on a desk showing work to be done. Photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash


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Academia Personal

Looking back at writing my PhD

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2022-04-22

So I finished writing my PhD last December and it was in evaluation until recently. Now, I am preparing for my defence, which will take place in mid-May. I was thinking about how my PhD was determining my life in the last couple of years and how one simple…

Computer on a desk showing the text "Do more."


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Productivity

The Eisenhower Matrix

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2022-04-15

Today, I would like to talk about a VERY simple concept for time management. It is called the Eisenhower Matrix and it is supposed to help you with deciding which tasks need your attention and which don’t. I also want to talk about how this method can help in…

Screenshot from the game "Detroit: Become Human" showing hundreds of Androids. © Epic Games


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Games

Detroit: Become Human – One of the best games I ever played

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2022-04-08

Believe it or not, but I am playing videogames for over 36 years now. There were times in my life, where I played a lot and I therefore know also a lot of games. Recently, I played Detroit: Become Human and it was one of the best narrative games…

Point Cloud of a lithic artefact. Screenshot by Gianpiero di Maida.


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Academia Archaeology

New publication: Structured light, Structure from Motion and lithic artefacts

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2022-04-01

So recently, I have published a new article together with Gianpiero di Maida of the Neanderthal Museum in Germany. The article is about his project called DISAPALE, but also about the comparison between a Structured Light Scanner and Structure from Motion. Wait, what?

Structured Light Scanner

So a structured light scanner…

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Academia Archaeology

Cancelling our workshop and moving on

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2022-03-25

A while ago, I announced that I will be co-organising a conference on decolonising orientalist narratives of the past and present. Our idea was a dialogue between “the West” and West Asia. We got many great applications, but only a few from West Asia. So we are cancelling the…

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Germany

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