Nowadays “facts” and thus “truth” seems inescapable: there 's hardly any room for imagination, let alone for myths. However, we must not confuse facts with truth. Newton, for example, would never have come to his deep knowledge if he had not looked past the facts. There are never enough facts, if you …

Why do young people study psychology? Together with medicine and law, psychology has been one of the most popular studies for years in the Netherlands. Unlike for example medicine, many students drop out during the first year.  This article focusses on the question why.

Digital techniques have enabled us to enjoy music, literature and communication to an unlimited extent. Images, music and other files can even bridge the largest distances on Earth in just a few milliseconds via the World Wild Web (and satellites). Digital connection would be less demanding for the planet …

Is het montessorionderwijs een rijk onderwijsconcept of is het een onderwijsconcept dat verrijkt moet worden? De discussie over het antwoord op deze vraag is een terugkerend thema in het meer dan honderdjarig bestaan van het montessorionderwijs in Nederland. Jaap de Brouwer en Patrick Sins van het lectoraat …

Jongeren scoren hoog op de klachtenlijst en zorgen van bewoners en genieten met enige regelmaat de politieke aandacht van de (lokale) overheid. Het jeugdvraagstuk roept een zeker maatschappelijk ongeduld en onbehagen op.

Deze column gaat in op personen met verschillende drijfveren en de gevolgen daarvan op de samenwerking binnen een organisatie.

What about people, hardware (biology) and software (culture)? Our construction starts with an egg cell and a sperm cell that is 83,000 times smaller (in this phase the female is certainly cooperative). The 2 cells double, and double, 47 times (247) resulting in the 140.737 billion (1.4 * 1014) complex …

Youyou et al. showed that from 70 likes the algorithm could predict the personality better than friends, from 150 likes better than family members and from 300 likes even better than the test person himself. However, the machine learning algorithm does not know the person better than the colleagues, …

Although usually very predictable, the outcome of (inter) action on both the individual and the group level is in principle not predictable (undetermined, or chaotic). Mathematically, this is called nonlinear dynamics, or non-deterministic systems, or chaos. There are so many forces involved in the "system" …

In machine learning, people stay responsible for defining both the available data, and the desired outcomes. The growth of knowledge and insights remains both critical and constantly dependent on developments, and therefore on professionals. Although the quality of our work can increase through the use …