Photo: Gertjan Stads / Pix4Profs Last May, the Dongense Youth Council Foundation was unexpectedly informed that it (along with many other associations) had to leave the familiar space in the association hall with all the materials in both. weeks. With great luck, Autobedrijf Lion van Loon offered the Foundation a quick and temporary solution. For example, with the help of …
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Four passengers from ISS space station will return to Earth no earlier than Monday – Science
Frenchman Thomas Pesquet and three other astronauts will leave the International Space Station on Sunday and land “no earlier than” Monday at 12:14 GMT (13:14 GMT) off the coast of Florida. This is what the US space agency NASA reports. The crew of SpaceX’s second Crew Dragon – which includes Americans Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur and Japan’s Akihiko Hoshide …
Read More »open science? Good idea but it doesn’t always work
According to the vast majority of researchers, it is important to make scientific data freely accessible to everyone. In practice, however, only half of them work there, reports research funder NWO. More than a thousand researchers from the NWO database filled out a questionnaire in September to give their opinion on open science give: what do they think and what …
Read More »Steel Ros – Chronicle Carolien de Heer, member of the West District Management Board – News
West district photo What makes a city beautiful and pleasant to live in? Ask any Amsterdam resident what they would like to see changed in their city and the answer usually comes down to improving the quality of public space. In other words: less view of the street (cars, bicycles and scooters) and more quality greenery (trees and planting areas). …
Read More »The advantages of a sofa bed at a glance
Do you want to create additional beds, but there is not much space for it? Then you can place a mattress on the floor. Someone can sleep well on this, but it is by no means ideal. A mattress takes up a large part of the living space. That is why we can imagine that you are not waiting for …
Read More »This actor is the most beautiful man in the world according to science … we check everything!
The Beauty Phi Golden Quota is used in engineering, painting, music, math, architecture or archeology for business planning. Leonardo da Vinci used it to paint the Vitruvian Man and draw the ideal proportions of the man. For this, the distances between the different organs (nose, mouth, eyes and ears) are divided and the closer they are to the irrational number …
Read More »More space to live and work in De Ronde Venen thanks to regional cooperation
In recent years, De Ronde Venen has collaborated with 15 municipalities in Utrecht on the integral spatial perspective (PIR). This vision document describes the challenges facing the region until 2040 in the areas of housing, work, mobility, greenery, energy and health. The aim is to maintain and if possible improve the pleasant living and working environment. Ambitions to build 4,800 …
Read More »GroenLinks attacks the elderly by reducing parking spaces
If GroenLinks continues to be part of the (new) coalition after the 2022 municipal elections and current mobility alderman Judith Bokhove sees a chance to stay in her post, older Rotterdam residents who have difficulty walking will have to slow down their visits to the city center will certainly forget. Bokhove is working to cut 1,200 parking spaces there, and …
Read More »New entrance to the city center
At least 550 homes, a hotel and the Beurs metro station will be approached, according to the plan that the college of mayors and aldermen approved on Tuesday. The city council will later take a decision on the so-called memorandum of principles. Renovation Coolse Poort The De Coolse Poort office building (‘de Rode Kroot’) will be given new functions, while …
Read More »There are fewer and fewer birds in the spring
We hear less and less the magnificent nightingale singing.Image Sylvain Cordier / hemis.fr Since sound recordings have not been systematically made in fixed locations during these 25 years, researchers have developed a method to reconstruct the “soundscapes” of the past 25 years. They used “citizen science” sources, such as count data and sound recordings of individual birds (of about a …
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