Massih HutakApril 22, 2021, 8:51 The municipality of Amsterdam decided that art and culture should be “stimulated” in the districts of Zuidoost, Nieuw-West and Noord. And she asks residents to participate. One of the best examples of the distance between government and the citizen is the definition given to art and culture. Where the municipality formulates it poorly according to …

A nuclear power station located in the port of Antwerp, along the left bank of the Scheldt, near the village of Doel.Sculpture Arie Kievit Europe wants to become a world leader in sustainability. To this end, green targets have been set in recent years. For example, yesterday the EU accepted the CO2emissions by more than half by law by 2030. …

The agricultural problem has grown over the years, but it is not insoluble. However, action must be taken now. “We have to tackle it now,” former agriculture minister Cees Veerman told In de Middag. “The Netherlands is a country in its own right, there are many claims on this area and these claims are multiplying. It is not so much …

Last night, Europe took another step towards climate neutrality by 2050. Negotiators from the three institutions – Commission, Council and Parliament – agreed to commit to climate neutrality and a temporary reduction CO2 emissions of at least 55% by 2030, in a Climate Law. The timing is crucial as US President Joe Biden calls an important climate summit later this …

The Ukrainian GlobalMoney payment system (the operator of the Global24 electronic system) and its real owner Vyacheslav Strelkovsky will soon be sanctioned by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine. This information was published by the Ukrainian media. In addition to such things as tax evasion, dirty money laundering, and possible financing of terrorists of the self-proclaimed LDPR, …

For a long time, it was believed that we – or rather our brains – are unable to follow moving sounds. But now it seems to have been proven otherwise. How can we follow the sound in motion A passing car, a mosquito, a talking person: these are all moving sounds. There has been a great deal of research into …

A plea for Dutch as an academic language is not automatically resistance against internationalization, says Mathijs Sanders. According to him, essential citizenship begins with mastery of one’s own mother tongue. Imagine the famous historian Johan Huizinga creating his magnum opus Autumn of the Middle Ages (1919) had written in English, for example because he had to compete for a large …

Applications installed on your smartphone or tablet can consume a large portion of your internal memory unnoticed. From Android 12, the space is automatically freed because the operating system puts the infrequently used applications in standby mode. Phil Schwartz“Food expert. Unapologetic bacon maven. Beer enthusiast. Pop cultureaholic. General travel scholar. Total internet buff.”

The Mars Ingenuity helicopter made its first successful flight. The unmanned aircraft thus made history by being the first helicopter to fly over another planet. Daphne Stam, planet specialist, TU Delft, contributes News and Co explains why the seemingly unimpressive flight is such a big achievement. “Flying on Mars is very difficult,” says Stam. “There is almost no air on …

To avoid nocturnal falls, nurses should screen elderly patients for nocturia (nocturnal urge to urinate) as standard upon admission to hospital. This is the conclusion of Veerle Decalf, nurse specialist and health scientist, on the basis of a partial study of his doctoral research. Decalf studied a large number of falls in a Belgian hospital: 28% of incidents occurred during …