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Legal counsel Gouden Zandloper 2022 is for Mirjam van der Sluis. The lawyer leads the Knowledge, Innovation and Technology team of the Legal Office of the Municipality of Amsterdam, and innovates and improves the office’s legal services to residents of the city. Photo: Julia Peleaulu It is no small task, the job that Van der Sluis faces: the Legal Office …

There were once two types of natural scientist, wrote the British philosopher Francis Bacon in 1620. One type tried to capture the world in theoretical schemes and got stuck in fantasies. The other guy, diligently and thoughtlessly like the ants, collected data on all sorts of things. Modern natural scientists have done things differently, according to Bacon. They worked with …

About the episode With their half a millimeter, the tardigrades can be barely visible, but they continue to attract attention with their strange survival skills. Researchers are now on the trail of another. Tiny, multicellular animals survive situations in which virtually all other life forms die. For example, being launched into space or living for decades without water. Of course, …

Photo: Gheorghita Constantin/iStock Will the metaverse, a possible next step for the Internet, change the layout of the physical living environment? City Affairs Summer Session attendees have no doubts about whether the Metaverse will have an impact, but how. Virtual environments can support many functions of the physical world. This provides opportunities for a greener, more accessible and cleaned public …

The public prosecutor closes the criminal investigation into the Auxiliary Forces Alliance foundation. The new board of directors of the foundation is therefore free to prepare a claim of millions against the ex-administrators Sywert van Lienden, Bernd Damme and Camille van Gestel, who themselves remain suspects. This is reported by the Volkskrant. The abandonment of the criminal investigation is linked …

About the episode Male chimpanzees each have their own style of drumming which they use to send messages to each other over great distances. But sometimes they intentionally play something low-key, research shows. Researchers from the University of St Andrews dove into Budongo Forest in Uganda and recorded the drumming skills of several monkeys. They analyzed the audio extensively and …

According to a survey conducted by the loyalty. It was previously announced that the municipality of Haarlem would be the first municipality in the world to ban meat advertisements, such as kilo blasters, in bus shelters. The reason for this is the observed adverse effects of factory farming on the climate. Incidentally, advertisements for air travel and petrol cars also …

07 sep 2022 om 01:46Update: 3 uur geleden Scientists have identified the oldest mammal in the world, the Natural History Museum in London announced on Tuesday. The animal, which looks like a shrew, lived around 225 million years ago. That’s 20 million years earlier than the oldest known mammal. By our news editors The animal, Brasilodon quadrangularis, was about 20 …

You ate well, but your belly is full after the main course? Then there is always dessert. It seems we have a loose stomach for desserts. And it’s true, in a way. We explain. Expansion of the stomach wall Our stomach acts like a balloon. If the stomach is empty, it is not so big. When we eat and drink, …

The Flemish Public Agency for Waste (OVAM) has mapped 2,500 old landfills. Based on the inventory, she sees opportunities for recreation and nature, but also solar energy. In Flanders, in 2022, less than 2% of waste will be landfilled, but because until the start of waste policy in 1981, landfilling was the most common method of waste treatment, Flanders has …