Experience science in a different way at the Science Slam! Students present exciting and funny insights into their day-to-day studies. From fascinating research results to bizarre anecdotes - knowledge is conveyed in an entertaining way here. Join us and be inspired by the creativity and humour of your fellow students!
Did you know that ants collect gold? Or that a person struck by lightning can become immortal? No? Pliny the Elder did - or at least he thought so. In his mammoth work Naturalis Historia he collected everything the Romans knew about the world... or thought they knew. Between real knowledge, hair-raising nonsense and hilarious anecdotes, this slam presents you with the highlights from what is probably the first science YouTube channel in history - only without Wi-Fi, but with togas and a tragic lava catastrophe. Spoiler: It gets wild.
Conspiracy narratives, esotericism and psedu science seem to have become more and more popular in recent years. It's time to become sceptical again and ask critical questions, but not bitterly, but with humour. We take a look at pseudoscience or mysticism and what sceptics have to say about it; from radosophy, to UFOs, to "sleeping sheep".
What makes a computer fast? A high frequency? More operations? More cores? Or just black magic and marketing?
We uncover the sneaky tricks behind the performance numbers - from GHz that never go up, to floating point formats so tiny they barely count, to bandwidth bottlenecks that leave your superchip gasping for data like a Bugatti with an empty tank.
