Links and Recommendations

I would like to share some links and recommendations that I myself find very interesting or inspiring.

Language codes are listed according to ISO 639-2. Country codes are listed according to ISO 3166-1 ALPHA 2.

LinkedIn Follows

  • Agent Provocateur [en-GB]: It’s about aesthetics.
  • Atlantic Council [en-US]: New on my list. Seems to have some good analyzes.
  • Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) [en-US]: They visualize where there is war and conflict, and that’s in way too many places.
  • AVM [de-DE]: They have cool products, and their service is very helpful.
  • aws [en-US]: Amazon Web Services is simply an extremely innovative company.
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation [en-US]: Because they raise political and IT-related topics that noone else might tell us otherwise.
  • Expresso [pt-PT]: Connects me to Portugal.
  • Instituto Igarapé [en-US; pt-BR]: A think-tank from Brazil which deals with contemporary issues in Latin America and which offers excellent visualizations in their reports.
  • Le Monde [fr-FR]: Connects me to France, and sometimes, even to Africa.
  • NZZ [de-CH]: Their articles have the right size and depth, and there is one article per topic (and not an endless discussion).
  • RSF / Reporter ohne Grenzen [de-DE]: Because someone has to fight for press freedom. And they do.
  • sipri [en-US]: They really analyze military and armament topics worldwide in a scientific way.
  • Stratfor [en-US]: Good analyzes of and insights from international politics.
  • The Guardian [en-GB]: Because they helped to publish the Snowden documents.
  • understand.ai [en-US]: A very innovative company in the fascinating field of machine learning.

List of other Feeds or Sites

Audio Podcasts

Video Podcasts

  • auto motor und sport [de-DE]: That’s not philosophical, it’s simply about cars.
  • Instituto Igarapé [en-US; pt-BR]: A think-tank from Brazil which deals with contemporary issues in Latin America and which offers excellent visualizations in their reports.
  • International Crisis Group [en-US]: Stay tuned to the many crises in the world.
  • Learn Engineering [en-US]: While not deep into technology, it explains things in a simple way and has nice animations.
  • nextmove [de-DE]: News about electric vehicles and electro-mobility
  • SemperVideo [de-DE]: IT and sometimes, fun

E-Mobility and Electric Vehicles

For some time, I have owned a Plug-in electric vehicle (PHEV) , and I have started to familiarize myself with the technology and underlying operating concepts. Here are some interesting documents for those who would like to gain more knowledge:

Universities

I am grateful to have been able to assist studies and courses at the following universities which I can highly recommend: