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I highlight a few talks here which I made for the general public.

## [2022 June: Faszination Astronomie online (german)](https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/HDembinski/HDembinski.github.io/main/talks/2022_06_Faszination_Astronomie.pdf)

A talk in German for the interested public that I gave about my scientific work: resolving the Muon Puzzle in air showers initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The talk contains animations which do not work in the PDF version. You can [watch me presenting it on Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STyvUC_-68w).

## [2024 May: On the origin of life on Earth](https://media.githubusercontent.com/media/HDembinski/HDembinski.github.io/main/talks/2024_05_life_on_earth.pdf)

I prepared this talk as part of my habilitation duties. It is about the puzzle around the origin of life on Earth: how could it evolve so quickly out of non-living matter? Many people expressed how much they liked the talk and topic, so I am sharing it here.