Here we go again with the topics of the day. This time it was Thursday. The links lead to the german language blogsites. But you might also get a clue of what was going on today by reading this short and funny report.

Florian Freistetter was our chief of astronomy today, and blogged about the day’s astronomy lectures by laureates: 435,457,355 Stars 435,457,355 stars had to be measured for the Hubble Space Telescope to function properly. Riccardo Giacconi began today’s lecture series with the history of X-ray astronomy and the Hubble telescope. And he said that, concerning astrophysics,…

Dancing Physicists – It was around midnight, the band played “Sex Bomb,” and all were shaking. Physicists dance as long as they can. We have fact-checked this. Even after the band stopped playing, some didn’t want to leave. The get-together-evening was a lot of fun. Dancing physicist photos here.

They come from all over the world to join this meeting and to communicate with each other. And what happens? They stare at their computers, read emails and Skype. But good luck–some of them are still used to the usual way of communication.

It was a sunny day and we only saw happy people in Lindau. Here in the Inselhalle Congress Center, Countess Sonja Bernadotte started the Meeting with an opening ceremony. Personalities from the worlds of science, politics and industry took part as well.