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Should we be afraid of the city of the future?
When you think of a communication scientist, you spontaneously think of someone who studies newspapers, radio or social networks. Professor Ballon works as a communication scientist on the city of the future. Urbanization is exploding and cities …
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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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Did Jesus really exist?
Jesus walked on water, could make the dumb speak and rose after his crucifixion. The better fantasy writers can't come up with such a crazy idea. Yet many people all over the world believe in him. But did he really exist? Was he who we think he …
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Do you buy better prepackaged food?
The question seems a bit of a contractio in terms. It is better for the environment to buy unpackaged food anyway, right? Just think of the entire plastic soup in the oceans. But what if all that packaging prevents food waste? As an expert in …
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Would you still work with a basic income?
Getting money for nothing, that is what the basic salary actually means. Every month - regardless of whether you work or not - a certain amount is deposited into your account. More and more people are in favor, but it naturally raises a lot of …
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Can Turbo Bacteria Beat Pesticides?
Every water molecule in urine ends up in a tap again. And before you wrinkle your nose… there's really nothing wrong with that. In nature, water is purified with bacteria and in water treatment plants we mimic nature in the same way. But …
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Is pencil stronger than steel?
Of course pencil is not stronger than steel! Because you can easily break a pencil and a steel rod of the same thickness absolutely not. And why this question? Because a pencil can become very strong if you have a very thin layer of it. que?? dr. …
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Do you have a doppelganger?
Elvis and Michael Jackson seem to have doppelganger in abundance. Every year there is another impersonator who claims to be The King. But what about you? What is the probability that there is someone walking around with the exact same hair color, …
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Why are you allowed to drink snake venom?
In some languages, a distinction is made between two types of poison: in English people speak of 'venom' when poison enters the body through a wound, 'poison' refers to poison that is absorbed through the digestive system. Snake venom is venom and …
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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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