jan20041

  skiednis/history

De Swaan

Volop voedsel voor verdere gedachten op de eerste dag van het nieuwe jaar, via Abram de Swaan's eigen website. Kijk vooral in het archief: De Europese Unie lijdt, zoals zovaak gezegd wordt, aan een democratisch deficit, of liever een òndemocratisch gebrek. ...

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jan20041

  

Why New Year’s Eve is the Worst Night of the Year

It's one of those occasions, like a World Cup or a royal wedding, when it is assumed on all sides that you, too, want to be part of the fun. At any rate, you are counted in whether you fancy ...

[telt 114 wurden]

jan20042

  

King William’s College Quiz

This year ten questions of the King William's College Quiz are about Dutch affairs. And I feel a bit stupid not to be able to answer every single one of them. But on the whole, how would you score? 2 out ...

[telt 107 wurden]

jan20043

  

Dennett’s Law of Needy Readers

On any important topic, we tend to have a dim idea of what we hope to be true, and when an author writes the words we want to read, we tend to fall for it, no matter how shoddy the ...

[telt 87 wurden]

jan20044

  

Aliens Causing Global Warming

At the conference in Washington, during the question period, Ehrlich was reminded that after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists were quoted as saying nothing would grow there for 75 years, but in fact melons were growing the next year. So, he ...

[telt 202 wurden]

jan20045

  boeken/books
media
skiednis/history

Lippmann, Public Opinion [1922]

On all but a very few matters for short stretches in our lives, the utmost independence that we can exercise is to multiply the authorities to whom we give a friendly hearing. As congenital amateurs our quest for truth consists ...

[telt 243 wurden]

jan20046

  Deutsch

Nietzsche sagte eins

Der Schlaf ist kein geringes Kunststück, denn man muß den ganzen Tag dafür wachen.

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jan20047

  

The Difficult Art of Telling the Truth

The problem with telling the truth is that much of what happens in the world is made possible by lies, and so much of the world is actively opposed to truth. We might respond to this with the great 'So ...

[telt 97 wurden]

jan20048

  media
skiednis/history

About the Earth Getting Warmer

The Guardian today: * Global warming to kill off 1m species * Scientists shocked by results of research * 1 in 10 animals and plants extinct by 2050 This website, previouslyThe timing of the end of the Little Ice Age is especially significant, as ...

[telt 67 wurden]

jan20049

  

Like Mencken said

" Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. "

[telt 13 wurden]

jan200410

  angst / fear
media

Angst

"Europa wil sinterklaas verbieden" - het bericht dat TV Noord-Holland eind oktober brengt, slaat in als een bom. De zender heeft de hand weten te leggen op een protocol waarin de Europese Unie zicht uitspreekt "tegen geaccepteerde discriminatie". De sinterklaasviering ...

[telt 189 wurden]

jan200411

  boeken/books
skiednis/history

Square

You have a "power square." Tell us what that is and what you wound up concluding. This came about because I was trying to persuade my wife, a very skeptical woman, that the argument of the book was worth making. ...

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jan200412

  

Mabel

Theo van Gogh kent een nieuw gerucht over Mabel Wisse Smit. Ze kon weleens in Yab Yum hebben gewerkt.

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jan200412

  

Het heerst

Walter van den Berg [geen familie] over wie de Yab Yums van deze wereld bezoeken.

[telt 16 wurden]

jan200413

  

Raadsel opgelost

De ritsjes onder aan mijn regenbroek zijn altijd dicht als ik het ding weer wil aantrekken. Onhandig, raadselachtig, en vreemd. Vandaag viel me ineens op dat ik bij thuiskomst eerst mijn schoenen uittrek, voor mijn regenbroek uitgaat. En dan hoeven ...

[telt 47 wurden]

jan200414

  

Nobel Prize Winners Hating School

. . and there is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But it is in some respects more cruel than a prison. In ...

[telt 72 wurden]

jan200415

  

Managementstalk

U vertelt managers dat winst er niet toe doet?'Natuurlijk niet. Winst is als zuurstof. Je kunt niet zonder. Maar als zuurstof een doel wordt, ben je een longpatiënt. Fons Trompenaars in Intermediair.

[telt 31 wurden]

jan200416

  angst / fear

A False Sense of Security

Why does the widespread proliferation of closed-circuit television cameras in the UK go unchallenged, and even unnoticed? 'CCTV cameras have a mysterious knack for justifying themselves regardless of what happens to crime', Rosen explains. 'When crime goes up, the cameras ...

[telt 63 wurden]

jan200418

  

Fran Lebowitz

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

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jan200420

  

Why digital cameras make better photographers

" Over Christmas, my Auntie took 20 photos of her Brussels sprouts at the dinner table, and every one was awful so she deleted them - what was the point? " five reasons why digital camerasmake us better photographers

[telt 39 wurden]

jan200421

  

The Problem Of Modern Schooling

" I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in Manhattan, and in some of the best, and during that time I became an expert in boredom. Boredom was everywhere in my world, and if you asked ...

[telt 126 wurden]

jan200422

  skiednis/history

What is intelligence?

" Professor Bob Burden, professor of applied educational psychology at Exeter University, doesn't even believe intelligence exists. "Or, if it does, it should be used as an adjective or an adverb only and not as a noun," he says. "It's ...

[telt 101 wurden]

jan200423

  

PNG and Internet Explorer

The logo of this site is transparant in every browser except Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Which is of course something I discovered after deciding the transparency was necessary for the design.

[telt 30 wurden]

jan200423

  

Bommelding



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jan200424

  français

Jules Renard dit

Il faudrait faire partie d'une ligue tout seul. Il y a des hommes auxquels il suffit d'avoir des cors aux pieds comme tel homme intelligent : ils croient par là lui ressembler. Une espèce de monstre bouffi avec un seul ...

[telt 92 wurden]

jan200424

  illústraasjes

Nozzman

more here.

[telt 2 wurden]

jan200424

  

10 Emerging Technologies That Will Change Your World

According to Technology Review: Universal Translation Synthetic Biology Nanowires Bayesian Machine Learning T-Rays Distributed Storage RNA Interference Power Grid Control Microfluidic Optical Fibers Personal GenomicsA pity they're naming universal translation; that may be the only emerging technology from the 1960's left that still is far from delivering its promise. ...

[telt 53 wurden]

jan200425

  

Updike’s Early Stories

Updike practises, one might say, a sensualist's pantheism, citing the world into a fuller being. His stories are plush with phrasing and, in them, the nap of the felt world made suddenly and wonderfully palpable. Who else would notice the ...

[telt 203 wurden]

jan200425

  skiednis/history

Het is weer eens anders

In het publieke debat hierover neemt de positie van vrouwen binnen de islam een belangrijke plaats in. Net als in Nederland. Dit brengt ons terug bij Tillion die, lang voordat de hoofddoek in beide landen een onderwerp werd, hierover een ...

[telt 147 wurden]

jan200425

  media
skiednis/history

Popular Culture

I wondered why the consumers of victorious products were so fierce and intolerant. I had encountered the same aggressive tone, the same readiness for a fight to the end, each time I had expressed doubt in the value of any ...

[telt 220 wurden]

jan200426

  illústraasjes

Muybridge



[telt 1 wurden]

jan200428

  skiednis/history

Een filosoof in de politiek

Waar de grenzen tussen de politieke partijen lopen, was na acht jaar Paars onduidelijk. De partij van de bazen en de partij van de arbeiders werkten samen, en de politiek ging over 'werk, werk, werk' en de landingsbaan op Schiphol. ...

[telt 228 wurden]

jan200428

  

The Selfish Gene

... or a virus-compatible PC.Richard Dawkins.

[telt 6 wurden]

jan200429

  skiednis/history

Lessons learned in Vietnam, that seem to be ignored in Iraq

We misjudged then -- and we have since -- the geopolitical intentions of our adversaries . . . and we exaggerated the dangers to the United States of their actions. We viewed the people and leaders of South Vietnam in terms ...

[telt 382 wurden]

jan200429

  media

Is Copyright Property?

In one sense, [the] claim that "copyright is policy, not property," is an uninformative truism about all legal entitlements, and in another sense, represents a fundamental misconception of the history and concept of copyright. The concept and historical development of ...

[telt 101 wurden]

jan200429

  dei fan ’e dei
poezy|poetry

Nationale Gedichtendag 2004

Pogingen de derde stanza van het gedicht Niektorzy lubia poezje van Wislawa Szymborska te vertalen: Poezje - tylko co to takiego poezja. Niejedna chwiejna odpowiedz na to pytanie juz padla. A ja nie wiem i nie wiem ...

[telt 172 wurden]

jan200429

  

The only way to use Internet Explorer safely

Type in all the addresses next time, instead of just clicking the links: Things that you can do to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks The most effective step that you can take to help protect yourself from malicious hyperlinks is ...

[telt 95 wurden]

jan200430

  media

Vaste prik op vrijdag, het overzicht van de roddelbladen op nu.nl

Met deze week in Weekend de theorie dat Heleen van Royen bewust Rob Oudkerk's carrière gesaboteerd heeft, vanwege de ambities van echtgenoot Ton van Royen om burgemeester van Amsterdam te willen worden. Als vanaf 2006 de burgemeesters verkozen worden, zou ...

[telt 61 wurden]

jan200430

  media

Accuracy and integrity in journalism

So it was too that we were told a few weeks earlier that the EU was about to abolish all rocking horses above 60cms in height. No matter that the issue arose from a mistake by the British Standards Institution ...

[telt 109 wurden]

jan200431

  

Writing Classic Prose

While the writer may have access to information the reader does not possess - indeed, that probably occasions the writing - there is no special authority the classic writer has over the reader. The reader and the classic writer are ...

[telt 96 wurden]