World in crisis, women in crisis?
This March, for the 43rd time, we are celebrating Women’s History Month. Still primarily an event in the English-speaking world,
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Opinion & Debate
Choosing our own extinction: the better option?
David Attenborough warns people of the threat climate change poses. In his words, we have created a world by humans for humans, without taking into consideration the non-human world. However, he does introduce ways in which we can act better in the future. But would human extinction not just be the best solution for all of these problems?
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Six foot student life: About integrity
The University of Groningen has been on an inhumane and unjust witch hunt for the last year, on a professor to whom it owes a lot. Namely: Joost Herman. A perspective from professor Jacques Zeelen.
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Studying at home is a challenge – tried an added time difference yet?
Does sitting in front of your laptop for eight hours a day to follow online classes sound familiar? Studying from home is a challenge for most students now in times of Corona, when most of one’s social contacts are either roommates or people that you can only see in bad quality on your own screen. Online education is tough, but for some students there are some additional obstacles put in their way: One of them is studying with a time difference.
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“How dare you!” – The U.S. elections and why vote-shaming backfires
In little more than two week’s time, we will will either be faced with four more years of obnoxious Twitter sloganeering in capital letters, or a return to what is by some considered normality. On vote-shaming and the (in)validity of thinking in a two party system.
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Six-foot student life: About the Culture of Dialogue
Dear reader. As you might have noticed, I have been elected as a student representative in the University Council. Therefore,
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