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  • Strive For More

    For many professional women athletes, getting to a start line means overcoming barriers like discrimination, limited access to sport and pay inequity. Strive for More is Strava’s commitment to changing that status quo.

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  • The Universal Test of Citizenship

    The Americans have had their civics test for many decades. Certain politicians around here (in Europe) have been proposing a similar test for new immigrants as a way to share our common values and culture and to integrate the newcomers in our society. The proposal has been problematic from the start for various reasons I…

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  • Familiar Words From 1974

    I started reading {a history of} π again yesterday. I read this some 12 years ago but wanted to read it again as I am going through some algebra fundamentals helping my daughter with her math exams. Almost 50 years ago, in the preface to the third edition from 1974 author Petr Beckmann wrote the…

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  • Laurie Penny about Trump’s alt-right internet army

    Reading the book reviews I learned about Cybersexism by Laurie Penny and how this is a must read. Reading the bio on her blog it states Laurie Pennie is an award-winning author, columnist, journalist and screenwriter. She reported for the Guardian about the republican convention in 2016 where various alt-right characters united behind Donald Trump.…

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  • Helikopter

    Gelezen in de wetenschapskalender. Het woord helikopter is een samenstelling die uit 2 Oudgriekse woorden bestaat : helico en pter. Pter komt van pteron en betekent vleugel. Helico (helix) verwijst naar een kurkentrekkervorm.

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  • Demons

    People seem to constantly looking for enemies. And they are looking at the world very black and white. You are either for us or against us. Some claim it is the result of all the social media that lock us up in bubbles of opinions that we agree with, shielding us from dissent but I…

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  • Giga

    Als je van dit soort humor houdt dan was het vandaag weer lachen geblazen. Open VLD komt met een wetsvoorstel voor de versoepeling van de regels voor het verlof in 2020. Dit alles om de prille heropstart niet te bemoeilijken. Gelukkig worden ze gesteund door de HR specialisten van SD worx die volgende analyse lieten…

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  • ISBN

    Je ooit zoals ik afgevraagd waar ISBN nummers voor staan of waar ze vandaan komen ? Het ISBN is het International Standard Book Number waarmee je elk boek kan identificeren. Als je bijvoorbeeld een boek van iemand hebt geleend en het zelf wil bestellen in de boekenwinkel is het ISBN dat normaal achter op de…

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  • Welcome to Newtonian Motion

    Why another blog ? My first intended audience is my future self. This blog is mainly intended as a partial diary where I will note write about things I found interesting enough to not forget. For example; when reading paper vacation diaries from years ago I am always amazed at how many things come back…

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