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Ethics: Questions
Opinions differ as to what is right and wrong. In this series of lessons some examples of ethical topics are mentioned and can be elaborated later. These examples relate to sports heroism, capital punishment, genetic engineering and overpopulation.
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Greek philosophers: View of man
Your view of the world largely determines your lifestyle. How do the Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato and Epicurus view it?
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Puffing or shivering
In Puffing or shivering , the students start from climate change as a problem, they are introduced to the greenhouse effect experimentally and they study a few statistics. They are encouraged to think about which designs and realizations already …
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Friedrich Nietzsche: Nihilism
Friedrich Nietzsche was the favorite philosopher of Adolf Hitler. But has he understood Nietzsche's philosophy well? What does he mean by nihilism? What does he mean by "God is dead"?
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Ockham's razor and the conspiracy theories of 9/11
The medieval monk William van Ockham criticized the thinking of his time. He found that there was too much inclination at that time to assume far-fetched theories. That is why he used the razor theory.
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Traveling to a virtual world
In Traveling to a Virtual World , students learn about virtual reality, stereoscopy, the gyroscopic effect, lenses and magnetism on the basis of research assignments. This forms a good basis for developing budget-friendly VR glasses tailored to …
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Sport and technology
In Sport and technology, students examine the needs of sport in our society on the basis of statistics and become acquainted with metabolism.
They investigate the answers that technology has to this need by examining different materials, studying …
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Why won't anyone live past 122?
Science does not stand still: better vaccines, more insights into various diseases, better hospitals and hygiene have ensured that we are already living a lot older than we were, say, 100 years ago. And yet there seems to be an upper limit. No one …
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Do you recognize a painting made by a robot?
Ann Dooms is a mathematician. She figures and works at the VUB, but you can also find her occasionally in art museums. Because she can program computers to make beautiful art. But what are we with that? Is it still art? Can we call a computer an …
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Can you develop a faster smartphone with your computer?
Ambitions to become the new Steve Jobs? Then you definitely have to go to this Dr. story. Danny Vanpoucke (UHasselt) listening. He is a computational material researcher at UHasselt and is involved in researching the materials in your smartphone …
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Game Wizards: Apps and websites to learn programming
A website with 154 tools to introduce children to technology and programming. The tools can be filtered in different ways so that you can search by age, language, platform, ...
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Workplace: Instruction films vehicle techniques
An educational video in which the various basic tools are listed and their use.
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