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Wednesday evening October 27, Kester Freriks will be the guest of the Zwolle and Surroundings department of the Humanist Association. Kester Freriks (1954) is an award-winning and versatile writer of nature novels, essays and books. With richly illustrated books such as Bird Watching. The three hundred Dutch bird species (2009), De valk (2010), Along the IJssel. Nature and culture in …

As the third largest city in the Netherlands, Leiden has a pedestrian policy! The city council recently approved it. Good news, we think, because this way it will be more pleasant and safer to walk and run in the city. An improvement for all of us! Because everyone walks every day: from home to your bike or car, to a …

Millions of rocks fly near the planet Jupiter. They orbit the sun and are remnants of when our solar system was formed billions of years ago. For the first time, a space probe is now going there, the American capsule Lucy. It will be launched on Saturday. The launch is scheduled for 11:34 Dutch time. The Trojan asteroids are called …

Photo: Wutsje / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17987351 The University of Groningen is looking for a new carillonneur for the Academy Tower carillon. The future Carillonneur must have the necessary diplomas. “I will indeed stop,” said Carillonneur Auke de Boer. Last summer De Boer performed the carillon for the last time at the Martinitoren, in December he performed for …

Leading climatologists warn that 2050 is too late to reduce CO2 emissions to virtually zero. The year mentioned in the European Green Deal and the Dutch climate law should actually be brought forward by ten years, to 2040 at the latest, scientists involved in the Climate Expert Group told NOS. ‘UN, IPCC. In two weeks, a global climate conference will …

Vincent Icke takes up the thread that Christiaan Huygens woven three centuries ago and describes the true nature of science. Willem SchoonenOctober 16, 2021, 01:00 “We will see here such demonstrations, which do not offer as much certainty as those of geometry, and which differ greatly from it; for where the geometers prove their propositions on certain and indisputable premises, …

The new House Modernes bicycle garage on Lange Viestraat in Utrecht is open today. With space for 900 bikes, it is the largest municipal car park in the city center. Alderman Lot van Hooijdonk was present for the opening of the car park. She called the new parking lot a “beautiful place”. Inside there is not only room for regular …

In recent years, much attention has been paid to ethnic profiling by the police. But it is certainly not only the migratory origin of a person that can lead the police to identify certain people as suspects. This is what emerges from a report by the Police and Science research program. What about the level of education, for example? Research …

Creating factories in space is not a whim of billionaires detached from reality, but rather projects that develop and materialize little by little. Like Jeff Bezos, president of Blue Origin, which aims to send polluting industries into space, the space research company Varda Space aims to be the first to build a factory in space by teaming up at SpaceX, …

The risk of young people with an immigrant background being suspected of a crime is two to three times higher than for young people of Dutch origin. This emerges from research carried out by sociologists from Erasmus University commissioned by the police, police and science research program. “There are a lot of young people who have done something wrong, but …