Categorie: Links
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Links van 13 november 2015 tot 15 november 2015
Saudi Arabia’s Curriculum of Intolerance | Freedom House"What is being taught today in Saudi public school textbooks about how Muslims should relate to other religious communities will poison the minds of a new generation of Saudis," said Nina Shea, Director of the Center for Religious Freedom and principal author of the report. "Whatever changes have…
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Links van 7 november 2015 tot 13 november 2015
Homeopathy ‘could be blacklisted’ – BBC NewsDat het tijd werd. "Ministers are considering whether homeopathy should be put on a blacklist of treatments GPs in England are banned from prescribing, the BBC has learned." Europese waarden – De StandaardWat rest nog van de Europese waarden als vrijheid er alleen is voor de handel en niet…
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Links van 29 oktober 2015 tot 7 november 2015
Genre Snobbery Is a ‘Bizarre Act of Self-Mutilation’ | WIREDLiterary writers find their creativity hemmed in on all sides by close-minded attitudes about what a novel should be, and fantasy and science fiction writers find their work dismissed out of hand by large numbers of readers and critics. But the biggest losers are readers themselves.…
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Links van 14 oktober 2015 tot 26 oktober 2015
Why Homejoy Failed — Backchannel — MediumHomejoy is far from being the lone example of a Silicon Valley startup to prioritize growth over revenue. Silicon Valley’s investors have published countless blog posts urging entrepreneurs to focus on expanding the customer base and to worry about a sustainable business model later. Oscar (2014) on VimeoSchoon. Why…
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Links van 10 oktober 2015 tot 12 oktober 2015
Ze zijn zo lief voor de N-VA meneer | Salon van SisyphusJarenlang stonden de redacties , alle redacties, onder politieke druk. Vandaag de dag zijn de redacties daarvan bevrijd maar hun pas verworven vrijheid hebben ze zelf verkwanseld. Ze hebben de politieke druk vervangen door een commerciële. Zoals toenmalig hoofdredacteur Siegfried Bracke het ooit zei…
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Links van 30 september 2015 tot 2 oktober 2015
Why Kindergarten in Finland Is All About Playtime (and Why That Could Be More Stimulating Than the Common Core) – The Atlantic“[Children] learn so well through play. They don’t even realize that they are learning because they’re so interested.” When children play, Osei Ntiamoah continued, they’re developing their language, math, and social-interaction skills. A recent…
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Links van 25 september 2015 tot 30 september 2015
Hollywood history podcast: Buster Keaton’s move to MGM in 1928.MGM was paying Buster Keaton $3,000 a week and seemed literally afraid to let him open his mouth. But as sound fully took hold at MGM, Keaton would long for the days of silence. Listen to the episode to find out how, over the next three…
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Links van 18 september 2015 tot 23 september 2015
U leidt een stad vol schorremorrie, Burgemeester | Jan Blommaert (en z’n gedachten)De bewoners van Uw stad blijken in de wereld zoals U ze beleeft bovenal veroorzakers van overlast te zijn, potentiële misdadigers en ordeverstoorders, profiteurs, labbekakken, links uitschot en ranzige bakfiets-egoïsten “die ge vijf frank zou geven als ge ze ziet”. Volk dat zomaar (zomaar!!) door…
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Links van 7 september 2015 tot 18 september 2015
Hebden Bridge Chess Club: The Hardest chess problem in the world?Hebden Bridge Chess Club members will be well acquainted with my passion for digging up chess curiosities from across the ‘interweb’. Recently I came across the perplexing puzzle below. It’s White to play and mate in 1. Anil DashTo be fair, Will.I.Am’s interest in technology…
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Links van 24 augustus 2015 tot 28 augustus 2015
Longread: “Schaam u, meneer De Wever” | Vluchtelingen | De MorgenHij kon zijn oren niet geloven toen Bart De Wever deze week verkondigde dat erkende vluchtelingen een apart sociaal statuut moeten krijgen. Henri Heimans, voormalig topmagistraat en voorvechter van de geïnterneerden, is zelf de zoon van een politiek vluchteling. 'Dit is dwaze, populistische praat.' See…
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Links van 21 augustus 2015 tot 23 augustus 2015
Jeremy Corbyn and the 1,000 days that destroyed Britain | Daily Mail OnlineWith enemies like this, Corbyn doesn't need friends. COLUMN. Nico Dijkshoorn: ‘Marc Coucke is een lichtvreter en … – SportwereldDolgraag zou ik Marc Coucke eens in gesprek zien met zijn nieuwe spectaculaire aankoop voor het volgende seizoen, Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Marc stelt zich voor…
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Links van 14 augustus 2015 tot 19 augustus 2015
What Paleo diet experts think – and why they’re wrong | Life and style | The GuardianClaims by proponents of the carbohydrate-averse food regimen supposedly based on what our paleolithic ancestors ate do not stand up to scientific scrutiny Information Consumerism: The Price of Hypocrisy – Überwachung – FAZmany Europeans are finally grasping, to their…
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Links van 9 augustus 2015 tot 13 augustus 2015
One Book’s Cover | Brightweavings JournalThis spring I was working with my American and Canadian editors, and an art director, and a gifted artist to devise and shape the cover those territories are sharing for Children of Earth and Sky. sbdc » BetrayedI used to be able to trust that Apple products would just work.…
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Links van 29 juli 2015 tot 7 augustus 2015
DUNE: The Insanely Complete 3-Hour Fan CutYou think you’re a fan of Dune? Michael Warren has you beat. He put together this massive super-cut of David Lynch’s cult-classic 1984 film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune comprised of footage from the original theatrical cut, the extended TV cut, and deleted scenes. This labor of fan love…
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Links van 18 juli 2015 tot 28 juli 2015
The Corbyn Effect | The Disorder Of ThingsBlair and company argue that the Tories crave a Corbyn win, but the trap has been set a move beyond that: Cameron and Osborne can rest confident that the terror of electoral wipe-out will have a neo-Blairite Labour party galloping towards their position anyway. Always fighting the last war, and on a…