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The Nature of Science
‘Science is not about finding any kind of ultimate truth, it is about building hypotheses or models that we use to make useful predictions.’― JohnJoe McFadden
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Top Gun. Maverick
Went to see Top Gun Maverick in the movie theatre. Initially I was hesitating a bit because I found the first Top Gun a bit too extremely macho. The machismo was well acted but it made the characters not very endearing to me. Reading early reviews of Maverick I then changed my mind mainly because the visuals were supposedly spectacular and not just CGI based. During our short trip to Ter Helme we talked to some family members that had already seen it and they were very enthusiastic. So the first weekend after we got back home we went to…
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Six Ones on the dash
We just came back from summer holidays in Corsica. We went by car and on one of the last days on the island the odometer reached 111111 km. Next occasion for such a number will be after double mileage but the car will not be with me anymore by then. A couple of years ago I was still adding miles fast but then I changed project and didn’t have to drive to other sites anymore reducing the yearly kilometers by 10%. Then came covid and now structurally working from home 40% of my time which further reduced the kilometers driven.…
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Scheiwijk
Today I went to pick up Hannelore from her Sportways Goalie camp at Xenios in Amsterdam. The camp ends at 1PM and no lunch is foreseen on the last day. As we didn’t have a lot of time we decided to stop at a restaurant on the highway. These are often poor quality but Scheiwijk on the A27 in Hoogblokland is actually quite nice. We ordered a club sandwich, a tuna salad sandwich and a double Big Boss burger. Everything is made to order and there was quite a queue so after ordering we had to wait 10 to 15…
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The Hot Zone, Richard Preston (ISBN 978-0552171649, Transworld Publishers)
A true story about an outbreak of an Ebola ‘variant’ in the US, Reston virus near Washington DC. The book has been criticised for sensationalizing the physical effects of Ebola and Marburg with people bleeding out and decomposing and turning into a bag of liquid. That is the graphical image you get from the cases of Ebola and Marburg described in this book in Africa and the of the Monkeys infected with Reston in the US. The book came out in 1994 and was a non fiction best seller that caused quite a stir. It certainly brought the potential danger…
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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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Discovering The Expanding Universe, Harry Nussbaumer and Lydia Bieri (ISBN 978-0-521-51484-2, CUP)
This book from Cambridge University Press was first published in 2009. As the title suggests this is a history of how the expanding universe was discovered. Although all mathematics are banned to an appendix you should not expect a typical popular science book. The 187 pages spread over 18 short chapters deal with the most important theoretical and observational publications that finally lead to the view that we live in an expanding universe. The chapters discuss the implications of data and/or models presented in these key publications and how they finally lead to a physical view of an expanding universe.…
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The Power of Belief
‘The power of belief resides in its ability to do four things: belief creates vision; belief creates strength of will; belief creates resilience; belief ignites and activates.’― Eva de Goede
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Ter Helme 2022
To keep up the good traditions we went and spent a few days at Ter Helme again this year with the family. This year was a the 10th time we went. As in most editions we arrived on Saturday and left on Wednesday. We have often discussed going somewhere else but there is no big need. After the place was renovated years ago the apartments and restaurant got a quality injection. We always have our dinner in the self service restaurant and that is good enough. The same cook makes the food here as in the a la carte restaurant.…
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Hard Target
Hard Target is an action movie from 1993 starring Jean Claude Van Damme and directed by John Woo. It was the first movie by John Woo after migrating from Hong Kong to the US. It contains many signature style elements like the white dove flying into the room in action sequences. Hard Target ‘introduced’ the West to other visual themes like the use of slow motion sections in the middle of an action sequence and the extremely violent bullet operas. Muscles from Brussels was probably never taken very seriously as an actor and if you ask Steven Seagal then Jean…
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