The Garden Session
There are three good reasons to have garden sessions with PhD students. The first one is an obvious one. During most of our professional life we have to sit in mostly dull, occasionally functional but always overheated offices. This is terrible and after forty years I still have not adjusted to it. Fresh air is a relief. ‘Die Luft der Freiheit weht’ is the motto of Stanford University. This means ‘the air of freedom is drifting’ and there is deep truth in it. Even if the air outside is cold or hot the essential thing is that it moves. This is never found inside buildings and even if there is moving air, it is unpleasant. A second reason to have garden sessions is the possibility to shut off electronic communication and use much more indepth communication. Cell-phones, email, and the internet all increase the intensity of information and most of all speed. Simultaneously it makes work a lot more superficial. No time to think, no time to write, the next item is already waiting, without every previous announcement your mind has to switch again. Electronics make it almost impossible to concentrate and to work for several hours on one specific item.
国际会议
The 4th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology(第四届固体废物管理与技术国际会议)
北京
英文
202
2009-11-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）