Het Filosofisch Café | Omarm de verveling

In onze maatschappij is verveling een vies woord. We kunnen het vaak ook niet goed. Bij ieder dreigend loos moment pakken we onze telefoon en gaan we op zoek naar verstrooiing.

BK Talks & Studium Generale TU Delft | Contested heritage: Demolish?

Buildings, museums and monuments can be manifestations of national pride and glory, but also increasingly confront us with our problematic past. These symbols tell stories of conquest, victory and heroism, while simultaneously representing narratives of repression, racism or even genocide, the latter part not being included in the dominant memory culture.

InScience Film Festival | Hunting for Hedonia

Nowadays, more and more people are being diagnosed with a mental disease. Science may now have found the solution for the likes of depression, Tourette and various compulsive disorders: Deep Brain Stimulation.

InScience Film Festival | Coded Bias

One day media researcher Joy Buolamwini of MIT finds out that facial recognition programs have difficulty in recognizing her dark face. This leads to further research on racial identity and artificial intelligence.

InScience Film Festival | Picture a Scientist

Picture a scientist. What do you see? Most people don’t imagine a woman. An important reason is that women in general didn’t have the same chances or gotten the same amount of respect as men got in science.