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• It was founded by journalists Armin Medosch and Florian Rötzer and deals with privacy, science, culture, internet-related and general politics and media
• Other authors are Mathias Bröckers, Gabriele Hooffacker or Burkhard Schröder
• Telepolis received the European prize for online journalism in the category "investigative reporting" in 2000 for its coverage of the Echelon project; in 2002, it received the Online Grimme prize
• It periodically releases special issues, the first printed edition (01/2005) being on "Aliens - how researchers and space travellers want to uncover their presence
• " One of the articles in this edition, perhaps the most daring, described the so-called theory of everything (TOE) proposed by Burkhard Heim and its alleged applications to spacecraft propulsion
• (Heim theory is not part of mainstream physics, and few physicists would describe it as a TOE
• ) Others deal with SETI and exobiology