Afgelopen dinsdag las ik de volgende wetenschappelijke quote in het Vlaamse dagblad De Standaard, een typisch voorbeeld van het EN-OF dilemma: "De zee zit vol plastic troep. Eén man is de verpersoonlijking van de grote schoonmaak: de Nederlander Boyan Slat met zijn Ocean Cleanup. Maar mariene wetenschappers blijven sceptisch. “We stoppen onze beperkte middelen beter...
My mother (90) realizes she must accept her change of moving to a nursing home. We know there's no alternative. Nevertheless, her acceptance (ie, of major Change or grief) is hard because her unhappiness still wins. For weeks, she is in stage 3 of the Kübler-Ross model, being Bargaining: My 2025 blog: The (in)evitability of acceptance In my view, she still...
Dit onderwerp wekte meteen mijn nieuwsgierigheid (sic!). Het sluit trouwens aan bij de derde route van Dr. Martin Seligman, zijnde een levensdoel, naast geluk en tevredenheid. Lang dacht ik dat liefde dat 3e doel zou zijn. Anderen zien alledaagse schoonheid als dat 3e doel. Vandaar mijn diagram uit 2022: Bron: The meaning of Life = living a meaningful life (2) Mijn...
Intro LO: The term reverse evolution in this Phys article (below) was new to me. Moreover, it’s “a term that tends to be controversial among evolutionary biologists”. Latter remark made me curious. “That's because evolution isn't supposed to have a rewind button. It's generally viewed as a one-way march toward adaptation, not a circular path back to traits once...
Intro LO: This rather unbiased article, in the English version of the Spanish newspaper El Pais, addresses my first curiosity topic - Why Beijing Thinks It Can Beat Trump - as noted in my recent blog. I suppose that Barry Eichengreen is rather convincing in his El Pais opinion article below. At least, I agree with his analysis. I suppose that USA will - indeed - and...
Recently, I published my blog Done with USA. Later, I realised that I’m getting more and more bored by hearing, listening and reading about that American narcissist with his German roots. Luckily, the upside of boredom is curiosity. “We often think boredom is a less productive state of mind, but a lot goes on when we are bored, including some...
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