the origin of life

this tuesday, i got a chance to peek at what some of innsbruck’s chemists are doing: right now, there’s an ongoing experiment based on the miller-urey-experiment [wikipedia: de, en] at […]

photo update

new photos are online! first of all, some more bat photos: it’s the first time i’ve …”hosted” a noctule bat (nyctalus noctula)- a good opportunity to take photos of the […]

bruno brown bear

i’m not sure if it actually made it to international news, but there’s a brown bear (ursus arctos arctos) called bruno [wiki] roaming through tirol and bavaria. the first wave […]

biodiversity day 2006

last weekend, this year’s GEO Tag der Artenvielfalt (biodiversity day) took place in kufstein [G] and the kaisergebirge region. the goal was to identify as many species as possible within […]

…classified!

about 1.5 years after i took these two photos, i met an expert who, when talking to, reminded me of the never-answered question for the wasp’s scientific name. he immediately […]