The Filth and the Fury - The Sex Pistols

Die in THE FILTH AND THE FURY geschilderten Ereignisse um die Sex Pistols und die Punkszene im London der späten 1970er Jahre gehören mittlerweile zu den Standards der Popgeschichte – von ihrer Performance der Nummer 1-Single God Save the Queen (The Fascist Regime) auf einem Boot auf der Themse parallel zu den pompösen Feierlichkeiten des Krönungsjubiläum 1977, bis hin zum Tod der „No Future“-Ikone Sid Vicious und seiner Freundin Nancy Spungen in New York. Der Poptheoretiker Greil Marcus hat in seinem Buch Lipstick Traces detailliert die Verbindungen zwischen Punk und avantgardistischer Aktionskunst erläutert, und Jon Savage verfasste mit England´s Dreaming eine epische soziokulturelle Chronologie der Szene

Two effects relevant for the study of astrophysical reaction rates: gamma transitions in capture reactions and Coulomb suppression of the stellar enhancement

Nucleosynthesis processes involve reactions on several thousand nuclei, both close to and far off stability. The preparation of reaction rates to be used in astrophysical investigations requires experimental and theoretical input. In this context, two interesting aspects are discussed: (i) the relevant gamma transition energies in astrophysical capture reactions, and (ii) the newly discovered Coulomb suppression of the stellar enhancement factor. The latter makes a number of reactions with negative Q value more favorable for experimental investigation than their inverse reactions, contrary to common belief.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, to appear in the proceedings of CGS 13 (Int. Conf. Capture Gamma Ray Spectroscopy and Related Topics

A thin film model for corotational Jeffreys fluids under strong slip

We derive a thin film model for viscoelastic liquids under strong slip which obey the stress tensor dynamics of corotational Jeffreys fluids

A thin-film equation for viscoelastic liquids of Jeffreys type

We derive a novel thin film equation for linear viscoelastic media describable by generalized Maxwell or Jeffreys models. As a first application of this equation we discuss the shape of a liquid rim near a dewetting front. Although the dynamics of the liquid is equivalent to that of a phenomenological model recently proposed by Herminghaus et al. [19], the liquid rim profile in our model always shows oscillatory behaviour, contrary to that obtained in the former. Our finding supports recent conclusions, based on calculations for Newtonian liquids, that the monotonely decaying rim profiles are a consequence of large slip effects in thin polymer films

The 85$Rb(p,n)85Sr reaction and the modified proton optical potential

The cross sections of the astrophysically relevant 85$Rb(p,n)85Srg,m reaction have been measured between Ec.m. = 2.16 and 3.96 MeV. The cross sections have been derived by measuring the gamma radiation following the beta decay of the reaction products. A comparison with the predictions of Hauser-Feshbach calculations using the NON-SMOKER code confirms a recently derived modification of the global optical proton potential.Comment: CGS XIII conferenc

Playin’ the city : artistic and scientific approaches to playful urban arts

An Theorien und Diskussionen über die Stadt mangelt es nicht, denn Städte dienen uns u.a. als Projektionsfläche zur Auseinandersetzung mit unserer Vergangenheit, der Gegenwart und unserer Zukunft. Diese Ausgabe 1 (2016) der Navigationen untersucht spielerische Formen dieser Auseinandersetzung in und mit der Stadt durch die sogenannten playful urban arts.The city has been discussed and theorized widely, and it continues to serve as a space in which our sense of the present, past, and future is constantly negotiated. This issue 1 (2016) of Navigationen examines new ways of engaging with cities through what are called the playful urban arts. Playful engagements with the urban environment frequently strive to create new ways of imagining and experiencing the city. In and through play, city spaces can become playgrounds that have the potential to transform people’s sense of themselves as human actors in an urban network of spatially bound and socio-economically grounded actions. Emerging from the playin’siegen urban games festival 2015, the essays and panel discussions assembled in this issue provide an interdisciplinary account of the contemporary playful urban arts. Wiht contributions by Miguel Sicart, Andreas Rauscher, Daniel Stein, Judith Ackermann and Martin Reiche, Michael Straeubig and Sebastian Quack, Marianne Halblaub Miranda and Martin Knöll, and Anne Lena Hartman