Een onderzoek gebaseerd op 73 studies van over de hele wereld laat zien dat ruim 40 procent van de insectensoorten achteruit gaat en één derde van de soorten is bedreigd. Ook de insectenstand in Nederland is hard achteruitgegaan. Insecten hebben verschillende functies binnen een ecosysteem. Zo zorgen …

Dit onderzoek beoogd inzicht krijgen naar de invloed van de invoering van het afstandsonderwijs op de ontwikkeling van Saxion studenten. Als gevolg van de door de overheid ingevoerde corona maatregelen is het Saxion overgestapt naar afstandsonderwijs.De Graaf (2020) maakt zich zorgen of Saxion zich ervan …

A rational choice of partner would end in abandonment as soon as even a slightly 'better ' partner appears. As a result, nothing could be built together, while collaboration is exactly what people are good at, for better or for worse. Virtues such as love and loyalty and feelings such as passion and …

Computers are so incredibly easy to deal with, for example compared to a sewing machine, that you really don 't have to be a techie. Preferably not; the government states that insufficient digital skills mainly concern employees in the lowest technical (and care) professions. Working on a computer requires …

Although Corona is a very nasty virus, we can learn from the global imbalance it causes. The "official" opinions are raised above any reasonable and unreasonable doubt, which is dangerous, because unexpected events, such as the new Coronavirus, always lack knowledge at first. By accepting assumptions …

Due to the increase in scale due to (digital) technology, we are increasingly losing sight of our "common grounds". Our behaviour becomes bizarre, almost psychotic, but decimated by social media. In these Big Tech 'village squares ', we are both consumers and producers, like the sheep of yesteryear, …

On the outside, working online is mainly like working on-site. As a result, the switch was made quickly and relatively easily when on-site work was temporarily not an option. Initially, the biggest issues were technical in nature (bad connection). But technical issues are solvable, and the potential …

Doesn 't anyone see what a horrible uniformity we have begun to create worldwide? Doesn 't anyone see that we would be much better off if we were really connected and focused on each other, instead of learning to frame each other through rules and protocols? With our machinations we have created a …

Especially well-educated people increasingly say / write that opinions should only be expressed if they are well informed. For example, social media is forced to post a warning or to remove bad or uninformed opinions that are shared or read beyond a threshold. What 's wrong with this?

Nowadays the term “neurodiversity” is used more and more to indicate people with a form of autism and/or ADHD. The idea here is not to view autism or ADHD as a disorder or a deficit, but as a natural variation in the development of cognitive processes in the human brain. In this article, our research …