History
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Visit Labiomista: Art, Animals, and Ecological Insights
While staying at Stiemerheide we also visited Labiomista. This is a special kind of park, a mix of zoo, art exhibition with work from Koen Vanmechelen and park. Originally the villa of the mine director was located here. The villa still exists and a number of works of art are on display there. After the…
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Turning point. The bomb and the Cold War
I recently was tipped about this Netflix series about the atomic bomb and the Cold War so I decided to give it a try. It fitted with much of my recent reading about Oppenheimer and the making of the atomic bomb by Richard Rhodes and Leslie Groves. The series has 9 episodes of roughly 70…
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb : 25th Anniversary Edition, Richard Rhodes (ISBN 978-1451677614, Simon & Schuster)
Last year ‘revolved’ about the history of the atomic bomb with the Oppenheimer movie being released. To brush up on my Oppenheimer I read 2 biographies, one by Abraham Pais and the other one the Pulitzer Prize winning American Prometheus. And then I decided to finally read book by Richard Rhodes about the making of…

