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What The Science Says: How Can Cities Reduce Car Traffic?
Reducing car traffic in city centers has long ceased to be a weird left-wing dream. Just about everyone realizes that there is no other option if we want to keep cities livable. But how should that be? Scientists from all universities are working …
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Why do you see stars when you suddenly stand up?
Why do you see stars when you suddenly stand up? Balance expert Floris Wuyts gives you the answer - and no, the answer is not: because your blood flows to your legs due to gravity. Prof. dr. Dr Wuyts has also been doing research for years on …
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What Does Science Say: Is high-rise building the solution to the shortage of open space?
The Flemish do break a world record every weekend: from building the largest sugar cube tower to the longest human chain against bullying. But we really excel in allocating. As a result, there is hardly any open space here. How can we give every …
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Can we better understand the universe with a particle accelerator?
There were those who thought that the world would explode if scientists in the particle accelerator at Cern, near Geneva, collided with particles of enormous energy. The clashes have since happened, the world has not exploded, and Prof. Jorgen …
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Why should you be more afraid of your own mobile phone than of a mobile phone mast?
We already knew Nimby: not a mobile phone mast in my backyard! Do you also want to know what Alata means? Then watch and listen carefully to Prof. Dr. Guy Vandenbosch. Then you immediately know why you should not sleep with your mobile phone.
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Why can't you leave Ikea without buying anything?
You went to IKEA for a mattress, but you also came out with a cupboard, new pillows, a plant and a lamp. In addition, you stayed for dinner in the restaurant and afterwards you bought some Swedish meatballs in the shop to take home? Well, what we …
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What Does Science Say: How can a municipal council tackle poverty?
In Belgium, 16 percent of people with an income below the poverty line live. Everyone seems to find it a disgrace and politicians of all parties want to reduce poverty. But the increasing number of children growing up in deprivation …
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Why are you going to bed late again tonight?
Who doesn't know it: watching TV for too long in the evening, waking up way too tired in the morning and being determined to go to bed extra early in the evening and then you go to bed too late at night. How is it possible that we fail to carry …
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How will you be able to tell from your skeleton whether you are rich or poor in 500 years?
A skeleton reveals more than you think. For example, we can find out the social status or dietary patterns of that person from a skeleton from the Middle Ages. And from that archaeologists also draw conclusions about whether the skeleton belonged …
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Was Early Christianity a Mystery Cult?
Was Jesus Christ a superstar? Or was he one of the many superstars of his time and did the Christian promo machine work just a little better in the early centuries of our era, which spread Christianity? Religious historian Dr Annelies Lannoy, …
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What Does Science Say: Is a climate neutral municipality possible?
The earth is warming, that's for sure. Preventing further damage requires structural solutions. If you want to contribute at a local level, you can go for a climate neutral municipality. That is to say: net no greenhouse gas emissions. But is that …
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Why is my WiFi not working?
It's a question that everyone asks (frustrated) every day: "Why is my WiFi not working again?". We can already reveal that it has something to do with the American army and also with that famous internet of things. After 15 minutes of listening to …
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