Kirsten Poortier, Erik Myin and Peter-Paul VerbeekWhat makes man? Our physicality in relation to science and technologyBoom Editor; 272 pages. €34.90★★★★★ Tjesse RiemersmaMarch 8, 202301:00 The writers Kirsten Poortier teaches philosophy and art. Erik Myin is a professor of philosophy at the University of Antwerp, specializing in perception, cognition and consciousness. Peter-Paul Verbeek is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of …

About the episode Some choices we make are good for us, but not so good for others. And some are worse for us, but better for others. How do we manage these choices? Are we perhaps learning to ignore the negative consequences when we make selfish choices? Or do we make these choices very consciously? To find out, Dutch researchers …

Publication date Tuesday, March 7, 2023 Public space is currently designed around the recently completed Lapis Lazuli and Coraal housing projects in the Stadshart Noord in Heerhugowaard. This makes the neighborhood “alive”. In the Woodstone project, which remains to be completed, great attention is also paid to the development plan for the public space. An important part of the aforementioned …

March 7, 2023 The Committee for Education, Culture and Science is organizing a round table on student well-being on Thursday 9 March from 2.00 p.m. to 4.15 p.m. Follow live The meeting will take place in the Thorbeckezaal of the House of Representatives. You can go live through this website watching Or listen or look through the practice Debate Direct …

Groningen must set up predation-free areas for grassland birds and actively manage them there. This is according to research carried out by Veldpost in the run-up to the March 15 Provincial Council elections. In total, fourteen of the nineteen parties participating in the legislative elections responded to the various statements presented to them by the editors of Veldpost. Ten of …

You keep hearing that Groningen is very far from The Hague. It’s true. I think that also applies to Limburg, and even to Zeeland, which is not so far from The Hague, but where the infrastructure is just as rare, if not rarer than in the North. And then there will be two other nuclear power plants in Borssele. “So, …

About the episode In 2012, while visiting a Walmart in Arkansas, a researcher at Penn State University’s Insect Identification Lab picked a large insect from the exterior wall of the supermarket. It looked a bit like a dragonfly, but according to the researcher, it had to be an ant-lion. With this label, the winged insect ended up in his personal …

Ionica SmithMarch 3, 202310:30 a.m. Everything that is said in scientific publications is always perfectly correct. Although such an article is sometimes less readable due to all the neat references and strong justifications. Or as Paulien Cornelisse wrote last Thursday: ‘[Ik] I was surprised how boring and endless I found it. Or wait, Cornelisse was talking about BFG by Roald …

About the episode In a major study of dinosaur shin bones, scientists show that even within the same family there can be vastly different growth strategies, some of which evolved into huge beasts like T. rex and others into small bird-like creatures. The idea has long been, and in many cases still is, that large-bodied animals are taller than smaller-bodied …

Venus, Jupiter and the Moon were clearly visible (photo: Joost Smits). Saturn and Jupiter are “approaching” each other. nextPrevious 1/2 Venus, Jupiter and the Moon were clearly visible (photo: Joost Smits). The Northern Lights that can be seen in Brabant and the rest of the Netherlands. Jupiter and Venus kiss in the sky. According to President Herman Vissia of the …