Een winkelmedewerker, maar dan op wieltjes. Het postuur van een mens, 120 centimeter lang met een vriendelijke robot-stem. Dit is Pepper, een humanoïde service robot die bezoekers verwelkomt, van informatie voorziet, en advies geeft. Humanoïde robots worden door modewinkels in het buitenland steeds vaker …

What Big Tech companies are praised, psychologists/psychiatrists would end up in jail for. If they don 't want to end up behind bars, politicians must also have a very good story if they carry out an operation in which thousands of people lose their jobs, with all the social and psychological consequences …

Limestone is a sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). Limestone is, among many applications, used as a raw material for the manufacture of quicklime. When limestone is heated, the stone calcinates and quicklime is formed. The primary use of quicklime is in the steel and …

We won 't get a healthier planet with lifestyle programmes and new technologies if we don 't understand the psychological mechanisms behind overconsumption. Today there is food and Netflix, tomorrow is uncertain. Politicians let companies invest in smart technology, smart houses, robotics, AI, so that …

Computers are so incredibly easy to deal with, for example compared to a sewing machine, that you really don 't have to be a techie. Preferably not; the government states that insufficient digital skills mainly concern employees in the lowest technical (and care) professions. Working on a computer requires …

“Dökülen gözyaşları yalnızsın diye heba olmaz.” René Char—“Autocorrect dün gece rüyama girdi.” Darcie Wilder—“Kişisel olan gayri şahsidir.” Mark Fisher —Motivasyonel konuşmacı: “Sola kaydır ve hayatına devam et.”—“Kolay sayılırım ama seninle görüşmek için çok meşgulüm” t-shirt’ü—“Neden benimle ortada …

Don’t mind me while I drive through your neighborhood taking photo’s of your house, gathering your emails, passwords and other private information from your wifi network. It’s nothing personal, I’m doing it to everyone, in every street, in over 30 countries. Perhaps you can also excuse me while I give …

Maize cultivation in Ghana has been ongoing for centuries. Maize production in Ghana, is predominantly done under rain-fed conditions by smallholder farmers. The agro-ecological zones for maize cultivation in Ghana are grouped into four; the coastal savannah, forest zone, transition zone and the Guinea …

Counting the costs of a certain condition such as Spina Bifida in an economic breeding farm is absurd. We are all consumers that keep the economic engines running, no matter if we are obese, or anorectics, if we do sport or if we don 't, or if we have SB as a condition, or not. Of course, there are …