Now that we are slowly coming out of the lockdown, we asked the various experts from our corona think tank:what did you notice during this pandemic, and what lessons can we learn for the future? The corona pandemic raises many questions – and it makes sense that researchers are asked if they can p
Science is everywhere. Even on holiday it is fun to undertake a scientifically tinged activity. The editors of NEMO Kennislink already give some first tips. Will you help fill the map? The map below contains tips for scientifically oriented summer outings in Europe from the editors of NEMO Kennisli
Kiev, the capital of the former Soviet republic of Ukraine, has seemed like a war zone in recent weeks. People are killed and injured and protesters say Russian President Putin has a strong hand in all that violence. Apart from all political interests, Ukraine is much more to Russia than a former So
Does eating less meat really help against climate change? Why do I feel guilty when I go on a plane holiday? In the new theme How the climate affects you, NEMO Kennislink dives into the world of climate and energy. Editor-in-chief Leon Heuts writes about how we do this:with an interactive house, in-
Great battles in history show that logistics can make the difference between victory or defeat. Will we see that happening again in Ukraine? We spoke about it with two experts from the Dutch Defense Academy. It seems that the Russian advance in Ukraine has largely stalled. The Ukrainian army has ev
The Jewish Historical Museum contains a special exhibition:Jews in the Caribbean, four centuries of history in Suriname and Curaçao. For the first time in history, this provides an overview of this colonial history, which was preceded by quite a bit of research. The Jewish influences still appear to
When protesters in Kiev overthrew the regime of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych, Russia was quick to dismiss the entire revolution in Ukraine as a fascist takeover reminiscent of Adolf Hitlers. The memory of the Second World War apparently still plays a major role here. Why is that? Since t
Ethnolects are language varieties that are originally spoken by a particular ethnic group, such as Indisch Dutch, Surinamese Dutch and Moroccan Dutch. In the first instance, it is first-generation migrants who let characteristics from their mother tongue resound in their Dutch. But the second and la
Why do people go to war? NEMO Kennislink will be looking at this question from various scientific disciplines in the coming weeks. For the first episode we spoke with archaeologist David Fontijn. In the solar system, Earth is midway between the planets Venus, the goddess of love, and Mars, the god
Information shapes the world we live in, and the West and Russia seem to live in a completely different media world right now. Who says we are not in a propaganda bubble? War is usually unpredictable, but in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in recent months one thing has proved certain:two a
Tens of thousands of years ago, humans were noble savages, living peacefully together in small groups. However? Wrong! The book The Beginning of Everything dispels these kinds of myths about prehistory. It produces a very strong book. We go far back in time, to tens of thousands of years ago when t
The Beginning of Everything is a new history of humanity, which undermines many persistent beliefs. According to author David Wengrow, our narrow view of history leads to a lack of political imagination. When prehistoric humans lived in small groups and roamed as hunter-gatherers, they could coexis
Every year since 1945 we commemorate the victims of the Second World War. For more than seventy years, there has been two minutes of silence on May 4 at eight oclock, but the thought behind the silence has changed over time. We no longer just commemorate fallen resistance heroes, but keep the memory
The Koning Willem II college in Tilburg has itself developed a Science subject to better prepare pre-university students for university. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has issued a license with which the grade for this subject will count towards the final exam with effect from next s
The development of the computer easily fits into one human life, just like that of many other means of communication. This timeline covers the life of NEMO Kennislink visitor Cees den Hoedt (93) and shows how quickly means for communication and the processing of information change. “I speak to my g
Deepfakes are videos in which computer-generated lookalikes of politicians or other celebrities do or say things they would never have done in real life. With todays technology, they are almost indistinguishable from the real thing. Counterfeits are as old as humanity itself. NEMO Kennislink conside
When we think of Vikings, we think of fierce Scandinavians who plundered through Western Europe. This is true, but then again not. The book Wij Vikingen provides the latest insights about the Vikings and their relationship with the Netherlands. Who were the Vikings? It is a misconception that these
Magna Frisia, the Frisian kingdom of King Redbad, would not have been a unit at all. He had no power over present-day Friesland, scientists conclude after a new reconstruction of the early medieval landscape. Not everyone agrees with that. The legendary King Redbad is a Frisian icon. At the end of
At the start of the new year, the editors of NEMO Kennislink are already taking a cautious look ahead:what will science bring us in 2020? The year started well for science in 2019. On New Years Day, the New Horizons spacecraft captured the ancient icy double comet Ultima Thule for the first time. A
Can you imagine a workshop or lecture without PowerPoint? The now almost forgotten magic lantern was the PowerPoint of the nineteenth century. This glass plate projector played a major role in spreading science. Making science accessible to a wide audience. It sounds like a modern idea and it is, f
A prison for a woman who had a miscarriage. Refusing to treat a pregnant woman with cancer - so as not to harm the fetus. Some countries are particularly uncompromising about the problem of termination of pregnancy. What are the risks in them for carrying out an illegal procedure? El Salvador
Italian fruit ripens faster! According to popular legend, this was what Bona was supposed to say in 1518, when her newly married husband noticed the first signs of pregnancy in her. Zygmunt easily counted that the child could not be his, and was conceived in Italy. And it was only the first in a ser
The new Mathesis course The Antikythera Mechanism was created out of the love of a special person who is no longer with us for astronomy and archaeology, and was completed with the help of friends who generously participated in this effort. Giannis Seiradakis researched the Antikythera Mechanism li
A wave of rapes, looting and lynching. Tragic misunderstandings and unrealized dreams. The end of the worlds greatest conflict turned out to be the most difficult for many of its participants to survive. After all, its always darkest before dawn. As always, all positions in the TOP10 ranking are