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Mensen op Mars. Een manmoedige poging, Joris van Casteren (ISBN 9789044628722, Prometheus)
Mensen op Mars is het verhaal achter het Mars One project van 2 Nederlandse ingenieurs om tegen 2027 4 mensen op Mars te krijgen. Het was een non profit organisatie die als doel had de plannen voor een bemande Mars missie versneld te realiseren omdat de NASA en andere officiële ruimtevaart organisaties te weinig ambitie […]
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John Wick : Chapter 3 – Parabellum
If you want peace, prepare for war. Chapter 3 starts where chapter 2 ended. After being declared excommunicate, John is given a 1 hour lead by Winston before the contract on his head is activated. While running John is told by a vagabond there is no time to dilly-dally. In this first hour John manages […]
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Dining at Brasserie Thijm: A Unique Asian Twist on Belgian Cuisine
Last weekend we went for dinner in brasserie thijm in Schilde to celebrate a birthday. The place is spacious because the terrace is can be closed and heated. We had a table there and the staff switched on the heater above our table upon request. We took the menu which consisted of a starter with […]
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On the Origin of Time : Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory : Thomas Hertog (ISBN 978-1804991121, Ballantine Books)
I borrowed this book from my father in law who was very enthousiast about it. The book already made it to the New York Times bestseller list. Thomas Hertog is professor theoretical Physics and cosmology at the KUL in Leuven, Belgium and was recently a guest in the radio program Voorproevers with Annemie Peeters to […]
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Het ontstaan van de tijd, Thomas Hertog (ISBN 9789077445365, Lannoo)
Ik kreeg dit boek te leen van mijn schoonvader die er wildenthousiast over was. Het is origineel uitgegeven in het Engels en al New York Times bestseller geweest. Thomas Hertog is professor theoretische natuurkunde en cosmologie aan de KUL en was te gast bij Annemie Peeters in het programma Voorproevers naar aanleiding van dit boek. […]
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Cheljabinsk-65. A nuclear accident waiting to happen again
Cheljabinsk-65 is nowadays known as Mayak, one of the biggest nuclear complexes in the world. In 1957 a tank with nuclear waste exploded at Mayak, spreading nuclear materials for miles around. The Soviet government hushed up the accident. They also didn’t inform people living there that the facility was dumping radioactive waste water in the […]
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Religious penis
‘Religion is like a penis. It is ok that you have one, but I don’t need to see it.‘― Oleg Vasilievitsch Lazuttschenko
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Timothee Chalamet Shines in Bob Dylan Biopic
Went to watch the Bob Dylon biopic a few weeks ago in the middle of the week. The theatre was almost empty and I have to say that those who were absent were wrong. The movie stars Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan, Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez and Edward Norton as Pete Seeger. The movie […]
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Haastige spoed
‘Die eilige Hündin wirft blinde Junge.‘― Johannes Kepler citing an old proverb commenting on his predecessors




