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
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