Polarizing may be a logical consequence, but it’s certainly not helpful. Of course I understand that everyone wants to regain control of the situation. However, sacrificing transmissions towers, or even human scapegoats to satisfy our need to understand, crosses every line. But it is easy to understand …

Gesteld kan worden dat niet elk kind over een veilige basis beschikt van waaruit vrij ontwikkeld en geëxploreerd kan worden. Het doel van dit onderzoek is om in beeld te krijgen wat onveilige gehechtheid inhoudt, hoe de ontwikkeling hiertoe verloopt en om te onderzoeken wat handvatten voor leerkrachten …

With climate change and urban development, water systems are changing faster than ever. Currently, the ecological status of water systems is still judged based on single point measurements, without taking into account the spatial and temporal variability of water quality and ecology. There is a need …

We often judge things as being more valuable if we have to invest a considerable amount of effort instead of acquiring things effortlessly. Sometimes we can only see the value of things when we lose them. Many studies show that fast scrolling does have a disruptive effect on our understanding. On the …

Craftsmen and other practitioners have always been bitterly needed, theorists are only needed to a very small extent, just like managers, while nowadays we train almost everyone as to be a manager or (applied) scientist ("theoretician"). Of course, ICT can be interpreted as applied theory, but then again, …

If we look back to society and want to restore it as it was just before the Corona outbreak, we need exactly everyone who participated then. So also shareholders, storytellers, healthcare workers and even criminals. There was a balance. With fewer criminals, there would be less police force, and consequently …

Human memories are not precise, fixed and independent of context and current influences, or even expectations from the future. To a greater or lesser extent, memories change every time we regenerate them and form the basis from which we act in the here and now and from which we face the future. Unlike …

At present, many people look the other way, stating the Corona crisis is a “wake-up call”, a disruption that paralyzes air traffic and shows us that we can still live on. Change is possible and this is very encouraging. We will overcome the coronavirus, but if the climate change and the environmental …

Hundreds of sensors in our smartphones, cars, houses and other "smart" devices feed the IoT, that monitors both our functioning, and that of the smart devices. In 2050 the Internet of Things - which processes and stores all sensor data - will require a multiple of all the current energy together in air …

Some Native Peoples didn 't want to be photographed because they believed that with every copy of their image, a part of their souls would disappear.By making a copy of an aspect of my existence - a photo, a film, a sound recording, or even a text - my existence goes beyond the immediate here and now. …