Links

My Sites

• Juergen.rarey.net
  blog, mixed professional and private.
• tec.rarey.net, our new company
• courses.rarey.net
  course overwiew
• Material website of the textbook “Chemical Thermodynamics for Process Simulation”
• Uni Oldenburg
• Researchgate
• DDBST GmbH (co-founder, co-owner and managing director1989-2018)

Recommended Sites

Video Sites

In their first years, I watched most videos at TED.com and could fully recommend the site.
They changed a lot and I find it no more interesting but can still recommend the older talks. Here are some interesting highlights:

• http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hans_rosling_at_state.html
  http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html
  Scientific theory and ethics
  http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_harris_science_can_show_what_s_right.html
  http://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain_explanation.html
  http://www.ted.com/talks/kary_mullis_on_what_scientists_do.html
  http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html
  Engineering
  http://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grosser_and_his_sustainable_fridge.html
  http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pritchard_invents_a_water_filter.html
  Biology
  http://www.ted.com/talks/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate.html
  Politics
  http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_unplugged.html

I also recommend:

• Chemical Engineering Screencasts
  LearnChemE – Youtube Channel
• Anything you feel you missed in school and much more: Khan Academy
  http://www.khanacademy.org/

Music Sites

• www.deeredradio.com

Books

Absolute Favourites

• The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  Everything that really matters and that we tend to forget in our daily lives – read every one or two years!
  Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman – Richard Feynman
  A must read ….

Enjoyed Non-Fiction

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress – Steven Pinker (must read)
Summa Technologiae – Stanislaw Lem
Beginning of Infinity – David Deutsch
The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human – V.S. Ramachandran

Enjoyed Fiction

• Snow Crash – Neil Stephenson
• Golem IV – Stanislaw Lem
• The Diary of a Drug Find – Aleister Crowley
• Moonchild – Aleister Crowley
• Sexus – Henry Miller

Movies

• American Beauty
• Human Traffic
• Secretary
• Shortbus