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Spillover, David Quammen (ISBN 978-0393066807, W.W. Norton & Company)
This book came out in October 2012 and I read it myself in June 2015. The subject of the book is zoonoses, diseases that are transmissible from animals to humans. The book explores recent new diseases that appeared and outbreaks of these diseases. Among the diseases covered in the book are AIDS, ebola and sars.…
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1000km running history on Strava
Yesterday I finally managed to go for a run again this week (too many online meetings) and I finally passed the 1k of registered running kilometers on Strava. For a person like me this is a veritable milestone as I am not a real runner. I have to force myself to go for a run…
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The Breakfast Club
Last weekend we watched The Breakfast Club with the family. This movie from 1985 caused quite a stir when it came out. I remember watching it at the time while being in high school myself and loving it. I watched it multiple times but it cannot have been on regular tv. Probably it was on…
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Personal Web Page Developments
Near the end of the previous millennium my internet provider brought ADSL connections to the market and I subscribed to the service. No more dial in connections with a modem over the phone line. With the service came an email address with a couple of aliases and the possibility to host your own personal homepage.…
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The new MacBook Air M1
When the lockdown started last year in March it meant many changes. For one thing we ended up working from home and learning from home for the kids. The oldest one had to follow on line classes and do homework. This meant that my MacBook Pro changed ‘owner’. Where I was using it before for…
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Zwaartekracht en aardkorstgetijden
De meeste mensen weten wel dat de zwaartekracht van de maan eb en vloed veroorzaken. Maar ook de aarde zelf vervormt een klein beetje door dezefde zwaartekracht. Het hoogteverschil van het water tussen eb en vloed kan gaan van enkele meters tot meer dan tien meter. De aardkorst is stijver en dus is de vervorming…
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Bedrade hoofdtelefoons
Het is waarschijnlijk technologische archeologie in de nabije toekomst : de bedrade hoofdtelefoon. Maar als je er een hebt dan zul je vast al gezien hebben dat er zwarte cirkels staan op de metalen plug aan het einde van de draad. Die cirkels isoleren de verschillende metalen delen van de plug. Elk deel fuctioneert als…
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Back To The Future 3
Final movie of the trilogy. It took some will power to start watching the last movie. Luckily friends had told is that this one was not as bad as the second movie or we probably would never have watched it. Compared to #2 it is infinitely better but first movie is still the best one…
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Tot aan de Ijzer
Deze week Tot aan de Ijzer uitgelezen. Niet het boek van Max Deauville maar reeks van De Standaard uit 2014. Toen verscheen van 28 juli tot eind van het jaar een reeks die dag na dag Wereldoorlog 1 volgt van het begin van de oorlog tot aan de Ijzer op het moment dat de vlakte…
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1942 Joint Strike
In 2020 there was a lot of time to spend at home. We ended up playing quite some games with the family. Card games mostly. But the old PS3 also saw increased use and it started to fail with frequent black screens during playing. So I bought a second hand one to replace the defective…
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