It is argued that pop music has long been locked up in the exploitation phase. Boring, more boring and even more boring seems to be the motto, and only extreme, as now boring monotonous hip hop from Chicago / London - called drill - in which "respect" is enforced by the real killing in quarrels between …

Local adaptations and long jumps are both inevitable in evolutionary (developmental) systems. So both perfecting, and occasionally jumping deeply into something, doing something completely different (very different career shift).

The human-technology symbiosis has brought us prosperity and adversity, and through the massive scaling that has arisen, we now face global problems (environment, climate, technological totalitarianism / technological iatrogenesis, lack of meaning) that we can’t solve with our nearly 300,000 year old …

Kleine regionale voedselketens, die boeren midden in natuurgebieden een alternatief voor de huidige praktijk verschaffen, dat klinkt te mooi om waar te zijn. Maar het kan.

Welke rol kunnen buurten spelen bij de herintegratie van mensen met een beperking? Een concept waarbij mensen elkaar ontmoeten, begeleid door een coach, wil die vraag beantwoorden. Wat leert de praktijk van de ”Buurtcirkel” in Amsterdam?

Binnen de beschouwende kliniek van het Dijklander Ziekenhuis zorgt de eilandjescultuur die binnen de kliniek heerst voor een gebrek aan proacitiviteit, initiatief en verantwoordelijkheidsgevoel, verminderde samenwerking en minder verbondenheid (Peeters, Verschuur, Veer, de & Francke, 2008; De steven, …

In everyday life, non-linear causal relationships can be investigated excellently and that is precisely why applied science appeals to me. Practice is leading in applied science. In the context of psychopathology, this means that we do not only look at general knowledge that can be derived from a large …

Technologization contributes to the illusion of a makeable world, in which coincidence apparently no longer plays a role. However, in how long we live, and how much appreciation we get, coincidence plays a much greater role everywhere than our ingrained illusion of control and rationality makes us believe. …

Patients with damage in certain parts of the prefrontal cortex resemble Buridan’s Donkey, as this statement has been called. Both emotion, and free will to act are missing, while rationality is intact. Emotion seems to be the fuel for action, much more needed for survival than rationality, which, as …

It is argued that sustainability can 't be achieved on an individual level. It has to be achieved on a collective level, not in the short term but in the long term. However, sustainability has disappeared more than ever, precisely because of the scaling-up that technology has brought about. To stay …