And that's why I think that an academic environment is a great place for trying new things and experimenting with new things.

One academic, Jürgen Habermas, even says without coffee we might not have had the Enlightenment.

So the better your executive function abilities are, the better that your academic abilities seem to be during the school years.

As a result, they score higher marks on average, and, by the time they end school, they can be more likely to attend higher education in academic schools over vocational schools.

This is regardless if you're on a two-week intensive course or a nine-month academic year abroad program.

Chung Kim Hwa, an academic and a pollster.

Universities emphasize the academic, while colleges or polytechnics focus on practical skills, but the degrees have equal standing.

That means a very large-scale piece of academic research.

Rachel Greenwald, a matchmaker and an academic, has this wonderful saying.

Realism, and with reference to Socialist Realism, but also a label Richter wasn't too satisfied about. Richter was interested in current affairs, consumer society, new media and popular culture. He incorporated these elements into his painterly practice, depicting for instance televisions, design magazines, advertisements or political figures and events. This was the genesis of Richter's professional oeuvre, and photography was the starting point, something which used to be impossible with his academic background. He combined photography with his characteristic blurred effect, and immediately started to examine the relationship between both media, photography and painting, a true pillar within his artistic practice. The German artist was interested and fascinated by the dialectic relation between the objectivity and the subjectivity when painting photographs. For Richter, the photograph was the most perfect picture. He could eliminate conscious thinking, as the picture does not change, it is absolute, autonomous, unconditional and not linked to any style. With his blurred effect, he made everything equal, equally important and simultaneously equally unimportant. He was strongly drawn to depicting certain subjects from found photographic material. Think of military subjects, family portraits, images from newspapers or magazines. These selected images all have their very own narrative and motive to be painted, most often combining death or suffering, and its exploitation of death and suffering in media. From 1963 until 1964, Richter had his first exhibitions and commercial successes, collaborating with several galleries, and also collectors were starting to get really interested in his work and career. A landmark year for Gerhard Richter was 1966, for many reasons. The first, the birth of his daughter, Betty, whom he iconically painted in 1988. He also painted his wife