"Mein Naturwissenschaftsblog" by Erwin Schmidt is an online diary on science, thought, and culture that has been running for over a decade. The blog is hosted on the Blogger/Blogspot platform and, at a rapid pace, combines short entries, quotations, and comments on scientific, psychological, and philosophical subjects. Schmidt writes bilingually—many posts appear in German, numerous others in English—deliberately positioning the blog at the interface between a German-speaking readership and an international scientific culture. Since at least 2013, he has been documenting almost daily finds from scholarly literature, media, or blogs, often in the form of pointed notes, thereby building up an archive of several thousand entries.
In terms of content, the blog covers a wide range. Core topics include psychology, cognition and consciousness, evolutionary and behavioral biology, as well as adjacent areas of philosophy. Time and again, it also sheds light on political, cultural, and epistemological questions—for example, when Schmidt takes up discussions on evolutionary psychology or "human biodiversity," debates that remain controversial both in scholarly and public contexts. He frequently quotes from original sources and places short personal comments alongside them, so that the posts serve more as fragments for thought and reading than as classical essays. The tone is sober and curatorial, sometimes briefly ironic or pointed, with a clear focus on the scientific perspective.
One distinctive feature is the sheer frequency: in some years, several hundred posts have appeared, making "Mein Naturwissenschaftsblog" a kind of digital notebook that continuously reflects its author’s reading and interests. Alongside scientific content, up until mid-2025 the blog also included literary elements—short poems, aphorisms, and poetic miniatures. These literary insertions were later increasingly shifted to the side blog "Gedichte und Aphorismen," while the main blog concentrated on its scientific-philosophical core.
All in all, "Mein Naturwissenschaftsblog" comes across less as a conventional popular science blog and more as an open journal of a scientifically minded reader and curator. The mix of brief notes, quotations, observations, and at times provocative insertions makes the blog a large, continuously expanding knowledge archive. Visitors to the homepage immediately sense this variety: densely packed posts, sometimes just a few sentences, sometimes a longer quotation, but always with a clear connection to science and the questions of how people think, feel, and act.
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