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Keeping up my drawing skills

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I always carry my sketching book and pencils when I travel, just in case I have time and opportunity to sit down and draw somewhere. Because I love it – and also to practise my drawing skills. I have just visited beautiful Lugano in the italian-speaking canton Ticino of Switzerland. There, I drawed this piazza […]

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Lise Meitner, Oppenheimer and the Matilda-effect

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Why is Lise Meitner ‘forgotten’ in the Oppenheimer film? The Matilda-effect in 2023 Article and illustration by Ann-Louise Bergström (alb@movingscience.dk) The makers behind this summer’s blockbuster film, “Oppenheimer“, have forgotten – or omitted on purpose – the person, who calculated and formulated the theory behind the atomic fission process (which is the scientific basis for […]

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AI generated images with Midjourney

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I have recently been on a course in Infographics on the Danish School for Journalism (Danmarks Medie- og Journalisthøjskole) where I learned a lot about infographics, data visualization and animation. I also got to play a bit with AI-generated images. It was very interesting, but also sometimes created some funny or nonsens-like results. I often […]