Just over two hundred years ago the young daughter of two philosophers and feminists wrote the first scifi novel, and it’s one that is etched into our cultural imagination of the horrors of science forevermore. That novel is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. But how many of us have actually read this classic? If you’re not planning […]
Net voor het uitbreken van de coronacrisis ging de maatregel van maximaal 100km/u op de snelweg van kracht. Nu we langzaam steeds vaker de weg opgaan worden we opeens weer geconfronteerd met deze maatregel.
Author and journalist Dahr Jamail details some of the reasons why COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic in our lifetime. It’s a stern warning and difficult to hear right now: that COVID-19 is only the beginning, and that essentially it’s our own fault.
Be nice to yourself! “The School of Life” co-founder Alain de Botton talks about our collective emotional state during a global pandemic.
Every year, S4S (Students4Sustainability) hosts a big sustainability event in the Aula. The theme this year is biomimicry, which is the imitation of models, systems, and processes in nature to solve human problems.
Visiting a loved one who’s critically ill: normally that’s possible, but due to the coronavirus, visiting ICUs is no longer permitted. The result is a lonely fight behind closed doors.
This Thursday at 8pm, Studium Generale and Hesiodos offer an online workshop on abstract painting with the theme “connect with your body”.
Now that we seem to have ‘flattened the curve’ and the number of corona victims reduces, our eyes are opened to the ravage the crisis has left.
Arts are a great way to add a face and a feeling to abstract matters. And photography can tell an entire story with a single image.
The drastic changes to society, the draconian measures taken by some governments, the sense of being in a historic period, and the speed in which it has all happened seem more typical for fiction than for reality.
In these times of economic uncertainty there is once again talk of a universal basic income, which has the potential to save many from poverty. Could it also improve our mental health?
At @TUDelft we are all about ‘Impact for a better society’. That implies creating technology that is useful and has a clear purpose. Well, not necessarily…
Do you want to stay healthy and build new habits during the pandemic? Or rather just sit back with a Netflix series and discussion? Why not both!
The corona pandemic confronts us with all sorts of issues we usually don’t really (want to) think about. Death is one of them.
Today the Netherlands commemorates the end of WWII and, in a sense, the end of fascism in Europe. In today’s SG Corona Care Package, anarachist writer Jay Fraser warns readers to consider the return of (what he sees as) a fascist sentiment in the wake of the corona crisis.
