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 …

Eind augustus opende het Financieele Dagblad met het bericht dat Amerikaanse ondernemingen niet langer het belang van aandeelhouders centraal stellen. Ze willen meer aandacht voor het algemeen belang in hun doelen. Wanneer financiële doelen niet meer centraal staan, heeft dit gevolgen voor de rol van …

In het kader van het afstuderen aan de opleiding Archeologie bij de hogeschool Saxion te Deventer een onderzoek uitgevoerd naar de historische ontwikkeling van de Halvemaanstraat te Zutphen resulterend in een 3D-model van de 19e-eeuwse situatie. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd in opdracht van de archeologische …

In de 17e eeuw beleefde Nederland de Gouden Eeuw. De welvaart, economie en scheepvaart waren groot. Honderden schepen voeren ieder jaar uit. Er is onderzoek gedaan naar de specifieke bouwstijl van schepen. Nederlandse schepen waren sterk en snel. In de 17e eeuw had de Nederlandse Verenigde Oost-Indische …

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 …