Online working adds a new dimension to our jobs. When I see myself working and interacting, I’m involved very differently than when I only act from my own perspective. From my first-person and newly acquired second-person perspective, I have slowly but surely come to form an opinion about this. From …

The "conscience" that humanity has had from the beginning can be seen as Mother Nature 's response to evolved and evolving technologies, in that conscience serves as an emergency valve. Technology and conscience are to some extent two sides of the same coin. This article eloborates on how.

INLEIDING In deze module worden behandeladviezen gegeven voor de Post-COVID-19 ambulante behandeling in de geriatrische revalidatie gericht op somatische-, functionele- en psychische status. Deze module is een onderdeel van het behandeladvies post-COVID-19 (geriatrische) revalidatie-Verenso. Deze module …

De bundel met Topartikelen van 2020 is de tiende (en laatste) in de succesvolle reeks met winnende artikelen van de jaarlijkse artikelen-wedstrijd van vierdejaarsstudenten van de sociale opleidingen van Hogeschool Utrecht (HU). Het schrijven van een artikel blijft een goede manier om te reflecteren op …

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 …

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, …