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What The Science Says: How Can Cities Reduce Car Traffic?
Reducing car traffic in city centers has long ceased to be a weird left-wing dream. Just about everyone realizes that there is no other option if we want to keep cities livable. But how should that be? Scientists from all universities are working …
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Why are you going to bed late again tonight?
Who doesn't know it: watching TV for too long in the evening, waking up way too tired in the morning and being determined to go to bed extra early in the evening and then you go to bed too late at night. How is it possible that we fail to carry …
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What Does Science Say: Is a climate neutral municipality possible?
The earth is warming, that's for sure. Preventing further damage requires structural solutions. If you want to contribute at a local level, you can go for a climate neutral municipality. That is to say: net no greenhouse gas emissions. But is that …
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Does the perfect family exist?
Who is all part of a family? Biological relatives? Your stepparents or roommates? Your dog maybe? And if you live together in a house, does that mean you are necessarily a family? To find out what the perfect family is, you should compare …
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How can you read the minds of others?
Not a professor of the esoteric sciences, but a sociology that provides an answer. Does it have to do with a sixth sense? Do we need a crystal ball? Sociologists are experimenting, that's for sure. But neuro-sociologist Frank Van Overwalle will …
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Is there a fortune in our landfills?
There are still many landfills in both Flanders and Europe. Many of those dumps were covered with a layer of soil and they disappeared from people's memories. Often nature reserves emerged, but also houses. Did you know, for example, that …
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Why do you have to keep track of all your clutter?
Require your disposable sweetheart or clutter-phobic mom to watch this lecture. Scenographer Jo Klaps will tell you that all your junk can be valuable: from cigarette butts, ugly vases to old lampshades. Your junk attic also undoubtedly contains …
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Is it better to buy plastic or glass bottles?
You are in the supermarket, you are having a party this evening and you want to buy some soft drinks (because the question does not refer to water bottles, you drink that from the tap, right?). Then the doubt sets in: do you buy glass bottles or …
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Is there a cure for sadness?
Google 'Manu Keirse' and the search engine will teach you that you are dealing with the man who taught Flanders to mourn. But how do you do that, mourn? And how can you help others? Professor Keirse will help you!
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How can you tan safely?
Despite the fact that most people turn red faster than brown, in the summer months 'the books' hit us with good advice to tan faster. But is all that really healthy? And can everyone get tan? Toxicologist Vera Rogiers, professor at the VUB, …
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Do multilingual children have a worse report?
Multilingual students often do not do well in school. Is that because they are multilingual? Why are they apparently doing worse? The debate about whether children should only speak Dutch at school is sometimes very emotional. Education …
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How hard is Chinese?
As many as 1 billion 248 million people speak Chinese. However, the most widely spoken language in the world is often referred to as 'insurmountably difficult'. Because if something is 'Chinese for you' then there is really no getting around it. …
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