During the Brexit campaign, a popular and frequently repeated example of everything that was bad about the European Union, concerned the regulations concerning lawnmowers. The EU doesn’t allow them to be too noisy. Opponents shout that it is fu...

Available online at amazon.com: A Baby Einstein playpen with music by Mozart and Bach, a ‘self-discovery mobile’ to hang above the crib, with classical melodies and Baby 2 Be, a CD especially for unborn children, to listen to from the wom...

To the right of the political spectrum, the popular idea is that a Dutch passport is not an automatic right. The liberals in the VVD view it as a ‘first prize’. One that you don’t get just like that. You have to show that you have s...

Rope-skipping, practising motor skills, ‘reading’ plastic letters with your fingers, or ‘flashing’ letters and words in the left or right visual field. These are all methods of treatment that are regularly offered to children ...

You don't have to search for very long online to find the effects of ocean garbage patches. The Internet is full of images of turtles with six-pack rings around their shells, seals covered in ribbons of discarded plastic bags, and beaches littere...

The number of people with a higher professional or university education has increased enormously in the last decade. Whereas in the nineteen-fifties, a mere 5 per cent went to university or a school of higher education, now that is 50 per cent, says ...

It is the horror of every hiker: meeting the wrong tick. Something that may happen not only in the woods, but also in your own back garden. In fact, one third of all tick bites originates from there,  a recent investigation has shown. That is...

Self-driving cars, drones used in war zones, robots used to carry out surgical operations. Examples of computers playing a major role, but what happens if something goes wrong? What if a self-driving car doesn't stop at a zebra crossing? Who is r...

When prof. Harald Schmidt was a student, many lecturers and students raved about the holistic approach in medicine. Schmidt did not want to have anything to do with that “woolly babble”. He felt that if someone had a heart problem, y...

International organisations such as NATO and the United Nations were founded after the Second World War, just like the predecessor to the European Union, the European Coal and Steel Community. Some people feel that they are too powerful and that too ...