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Bargaining with Fate: A Creative Writing Workshop
In this fun-though-doom-laden workshop, you will learn about dramatic irony and use tarot cards to create your own a fateful story.
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Van Leeuwenhoeklezing: De bomentaal van Delft
Wat als we bomen laten ‘spreken’ voor Delft? Wat vertellen ze ons over het groene verleden van de stad, en over hoe de stad van nu te lezen is als woorden, zinnen en verhalen van bomen en groen?
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Existential Tuesday: Can you be sane in an insane world?
Lunch discussion! How sane can you expect to be in our society, where things like burnouts, depression, loneliness, and mental illness are becoming the norm?
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The Five Stages of Climate Grief | Bargaining
We like to fix things, and there is no shortage of big ideas. Can we engineer our way out of the climate crisis?
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Thoughts about a deceased plant
Recently, I had to discard a plant that I had carried with me through many moves over the years. The plant only had one or two leaves remaining. It unexpectedly became an emotional moment. I wasn’t sure whether I should end the plant’s life before tossing it in the trash. Would it slowly die there, deprived of sunlight? On the other hand, how do you kill a plant?
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Think & Drink | How everyday technology invades the battlefield
Who bears the responsibility when everyday technology ends up shaping conflicts around the world?
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Think & Drink | How everyday technology invades the battlefield
Who bears the responsibility when everyday technology ends up shaping conflicts around the world?
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Art & Tech Café | Intimacy: Can technology bring us closer together?
Technology is becoming ever more intimately involved in our lives and has enormous potential to bring us closer together. But can technology truly offer an intimate experience?
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The Five Stages of Climate Grief | Depression
The climate scenarios we face offer little cause for optimism. We are looking for ways in which we can imagine and create better futures. But how do we imagine a future so radically different from anything that has come before?
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Thoughts about a deceased plant
Recently, I had to discard a plant that I had carried with me through many moves over the years. The plant only had one or two leaves remaining. It unexpectedly became an emotional moment. I wasn’t sure whether I should end the plant’s life before tossing it in the trash. Would it slowly die there, deprived of sunlight? On the other hand, how do you kill a plant?
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Gilgamesh and Grief: Finding Meaning in the World’s Oldest Written Story
I was more shocked than delighted when the Vox Book Club voted to read The Epic of Gilgamesh.
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Can anger be used for good?
Can anger be used for good? Typically, I begin a story like this with a brief update on recent climate disasters such as heatwaves, floods, or areas drying up. But I’ll skip that for now. We get it.