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19.11.2023
- Bij welke politieke partij kunnen de 3.2 miljoen alleenwoners terecht?
- 'Tot 1989 was er een alleenstaandentoeslag om tegemoet te komen aan hogere woonlasten, maar die is door het CDA en de VVD de nek omgedraaid.’
- Why Norway is rethinking its reliance on electric cars
- Electric cars are crucial, but not enough to solve climate change. We can’t let them crowd out car-free transit options.
- Stemadvies van WOMEN Inc.
- Bekijk Het Gendergelijkheid Stemadvies en krijg snel en eenvoudig inzicht in hoeverre partijen aan de slag gaan met gendergelijkheid.
- Verkiezingsprogramma's in Beeld
- De partijprogramma’s door chatgpt samengevat en vervolgens in Dall-e ingevoerd. Die genereerde op basis van de tekst beelden. Brr.
12.11.2023
- Indonesia’s utopian new capital may not be as green as it looks
- Moving the government to Borneo could speed deforestation
- Iceland: experts predict feared volcanic eruption could destroy town near Reykjavik
- People of Grindavík, where eruption could happen within hours, permitted five minutes to collect pets and essentials
- Orcas sink another boat in Europe after a nearly hour-long attack
- For the fourth time in two years, a group of unusually brazen orcas in southwestern Europe have sunk a sailing boat after relentlessly attacking it for almost an hour on Halloween.
- Jezebel and the Question of Women’s Anger
- When the feminist Web site launched, in 2007, it quickly became known for its contentious readership. What have we learned about online outrage since?
- 'Endemic' SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health
- Information control has replaced infection control, and that does not bode well for the near- and medium-term future of the human species on planet Earth.
- First-Gen Social Media Users Have Nowhere to Go
- The collective erosion of X, Instagram, and Facebook marks a turning point for millennials, who are outgrowing a constant need to be plugged in.
- Antidepressants or Tolkien's character?
5.11.2023
- Mary Bell: The Eleven-Year-Old Serial Killer
- The case of Mary Bell, the eleven-year-old serial killer, is a puzzle that defies simple answers. It is an unsettling account.
- When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics
- How an elite clique of math-addled economists hijacked climate policy.
- When science showed in the 1970s that gas stoves produced harmful indoor air pollution, the industry reached for tobacco's PR playbook
- The natural gas industry has spent years trying to undermine scientific findings about gas stoves and health. If this sounds familiar, that’s no accident.
29.10.2023
- ‘Why would we want to be part of the UK?’ Young people will probably soon deliver a united Ireland
- Disillusioned with Stormont and Brexit, 18 to 24-year-olds want progressive change – and don’t see it happening in the union, says writer Emma DeSouza
- Son, You Will Not Binge-Watch LOST—You’ll Watch One Episode a Week and Be Frustrated Like Mom and I Did
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
- Estonia’s capital made mass transit free a decade ago. Car traffic went up
- “Any extra money should be put toward transit service, and not zero fares,” she replied. “Transit’s price is not a barrier for most people. It’s service quality and speed of the trip.”
22.10.2023
- This land isn’t for you or me. It’s for the meat industry.
- Almost half of the continental US is used for meat production. There’s something better we could do with it.
- Disney Mocked for Ludicrously Fake CGI "Actors" in Crowd Scene
- Disney has come under fire after a video resurfaced showing horribly CGI-generated background actors in the movie "Prom Pact."
- Humans Have Exceeded Six of the Nine Boundaries Keeping Earth Habitable
- Scientists find we are “well outside the safe operating space for humanity” in a new study meant to assess the health of our planet
- The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong - Scientific American
- The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence
- For The First Time, Scientists Show Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation
- People who menstruate will experience some 450 or so periods during the course of their lifetimes, so it would be nice to know the different effects they can have on the body, really.
- Sweating sickness - Wikipedia
- was a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485
- Opinie | Kennen we de naam van elk Palestijns slachtoffer?
- Israël-Gaza: Israëlische slachtoffers krijgen van de media ieder een naam en een verhaal. Terecht, schrijft Ramsey Nasr. Maar waarom krijgt niet iedere Palestijn dat? „Zij zijn slechts nummers.”
- Napflix | Siesta Video Platform.
- Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible
- The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic
15.10.2023
- Australia votes in referendum on giving voice to nation’s Indigenous people
- Opinion polls show slide in support for ‘yes’ campaign, majority expected to vote no to Indigenous Voice in government.
- Evaluation of science advice during the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden
- During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway. In this report, we try to understand why, using a narrative approach to evaluate the Swedish COVID-19 policy and the role of scientific evidence and integrity.
- Escher + Alhambra = Infinity
- "What strikes me is the remarkable richness of its decoration (stucco low relief) and the great dignity and simple beauty throughout the place"
- Look at the horror of the Israel-Hamas war, then at Elon Musk’s X site. It’s clear he’s not fit to run it
- He took Twitter, sacked staff and reduced its checks and standards. Now, in this time of crisis, we see why that matters
- Broodje mis
- belangrijk bilateraal overleg tussen de presidenten van Frankrijk en Duitsland afgelopen maandag en dinsdag. Gezamenlijk eten helpt dan.
- Herprogrammeer de Overheid
- Een manifest om ICT hoog op de politieke agenda te zetten. Teken het manifest en help mee om de digitale stilstand te doorbreken!
- How People with Disabilities Use the Web
- Introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web.
8.10.2023
- Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive'
- Glacier cores reveal Icelandic volcano that plunged Europe into darkness
- The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X
- The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.
- Tailwind, and the death of web craftsmanship
1.10.2023
- A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis
- Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true.
- The Quiet Misogyny of TikTok’s Roman Empire Trend
- The Roman Empire that exists within the minds of TikTok users is one that is inherently of interest to men… it’s something of a Kendom.
- Flickr Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation Partner to Develop New Solution for Seamless Creative Commons Image Sharing from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons
- European governments shrinking railways in favour of road-building, report finds
- Rail networks in most countries have been starved of funding while motorways lengthen, study shows
- Ik ging met een tegenstander naar de A12-blokkade van Extinction Rebellion
- Na discussie op Facebook wilde hij de actie met eigen ogen zien.
- Elektrisch scheurmonster uit de bollenstreek: 'Je moet een beetje gek zijn om dit te bouwen'
- Over de Carice TC2
10.09.2023
- Europa wil Big Tech temmen met een nieuwe wet. Wat houdt die in en wat merkt de gebruiker ervan?
- Vrijdag worden nieuwe EU-regels van kracht om gebruikers van internetdiensten te beschermen. Meer transparantie, minder illegaliteit – om te beginnen bij de negentien grootste techbedrijven.
- Open Food Facts
- A collaborative, free and open database of food products from around the world.
3.09.2023
- The Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream Album Review
- Today we revisit the alternative titans’ 1993 album, where Billy Corgan discovered the larger-than-life sound that would reshape rock for decades to come.
- Burning Man festival-goers trapped in desert as rain turns site to mud
- Tens of thousands of ‘burners’ urged to conserve food and water as rain and flash floods sweep Nevada
- De toekomst van mensenrechten: hebben we recht op een leefbare planeet?
- Klimaatverandering wordt binnen nu en vijf jaar de belangrijkste oorzaak van mensenrechtenschendingen wereldwijd.
- A Canadian study gave $7,500 to homeless people. Here’s how they spent it.
- The results show the power of cash transfers to reduce homelessness.
- To Pee, or not to Pee? A linguistic landscape analysis of toilet signs in the public sphere
- In this article, we will examine six different pictures of toilet signs in public spaces, intended to be an original alternative to classic toilet signs, and how their understanding is conditional.
- ‘Off-the-charts records’: has humanity finally broken the climate?
- Extreme weather is ‘smacking us in the face’ with worse to come, but a ‘tiny window’ of hope remains, say leading climate scientists
- Denis Villeneuve Teases Possible Dune: Part Three Based On Dune Messiah
- Bluesky, AT Protocol, and the exciting possibilities of URLs as usernames
- Smartphones de klas uit. Mag Magister ook weg?