COVID-19 and memories

For millions of Europeans, COVID-19 containment measures created a longing for activities and daily routines previously taken for granted. Unfortunately, in Austria current infection rates are raising the specter of a second lockdown. During the initial lockdown, one of the hardest separations for me was the closing of my university's campus. I especially missed not …

Put that on my tab

The above social media post – recently republished in my university’s student magazine – made me consider how academic research has changed since my undergraduate days in the 1980s. Back then, we didn’t have any tabs open when working on assignments because the Internet and web browsers didn’t exist. When you wanted to know something, …