Existential Tuesday: Has society become more hostile?
Are we all becoming more asshole-like over time? Impatient, unyielding, individualistic, and full of righteous rage?
Are we all becoming more asshole-like over time? Impatient, unyielding, individualistic, and full of righteous rage?
How can the world still allow genocide to take place? Have we learned nothing from the past? This episode offers a different perspective on the history of this most brutal of human practices. How science, racism, technology and military superiority drove the development of new ways of killing.
De snelle vooruitgang op het gebied van fotovoltaïsche zonne-energie is verbluffend! Alle belangrijke toekomstige energietransitie-scenario’s voorspellen een sleutelrol voor zonne-energie in het bestrijden van klimaatverandering. Voor niks gaat immers de zon op!
Join the free movie nights of the VOX Film Club on Thursdays in the TUD Library. Watch “The Last Movie,” a 1971 metafictional drama directed by and starring Dennis Hopper.
Join us in reading and discussing Nobel-prize winning author Olga Tokarczuk’s mystery novel.
Explore the psychological, emotional, and societal impacts of family disconnects. What happens when these bonds break?
Could communal living be the answer to the housing crisis, the (elderly) care crisis, and the loneliness and mental health crises? Or are we too used to having our own space and our own stuff?
Ishtar is a 1987 American adventure comedy film written and directed by Elaine May, and produced by Warren Beatty, who co-stars opposite Dustin Hoffman. The story revolves around a duo of talentless American songwriters who travel to a booking in Morocco and stumble into a four-party Cold War standoff.
Fear and violence ran rampant in the streets of Amsterdam last week. Where do these feelings come from, and how do they lead to violence?
75 minutes of contemplative practice, spiritual teachings & collective reflection. Everyone is welcome. Together we’ll tenderly traverse the inner-landscape of grief.
Is it ever truly acceptable to joke at someone else’s expense? And what, at its core, makes something funny? Join us as we unpack the ethics of humor, dissecting the boundaries that shape comedy today.
Discuss the ‘self’ after a visit to the Anechoic Chamber. Where do we start and where do we end? Are we connected to anything outside of us?
Wat zouden canonieke teksten uit de literatuurgeschiedenis ons te vertellen hebben? Ga mee op deze literaire reis.
This session, run in collaboration with Exhale, will be hosted by Creative Writing Studio Expert Harriet Foyster. Guided by Harriet, you will learn how to convey feelings to your reader.
With the development of AI, our world will increasingly be shared with highly-capable artificially-intelligent agents, many operating relatively autonomously. Could their capacity to learn and recognize ethical features make them much-needed allies in promoting safety for AI agents and ourselves alike?