Van Infotainer, Eeuwig Student, Natuurmens & Fotograaf Rypke Zeilmaker
Today we move to the public discussion; in my lecture on Thursday the 14th in Berlin, the cliche-use of the ‘Conspiracy Theory’-meme (‘Verschworungs-Theorie’) was used to discredit my social respectabillity; it means that you are framed as a non-rational nutter. Verder lezen…
How bootlegger-baptist-dynamics encourage energy-industrial development in Dutch Natural areas; lecture for the German Wildlife Foundation (Berlin 14 december) First read Part 1 on the Bootlegger-Baptist Game Theory and the theory in Dutch Practice.Part 2 demonstrates how Dutch government and right Verder lezen…
How bootlegger-baptist-dynamics encourage energy-industrial development in Dutch Natural areas; lecture for the German Wildlife Foundation (Berlin 14 december) Summary: Traditionally in public debates and mass-media-reporting on the environment, environmentalism is seen as ‘left wing’ while industrial and governmental economic interests Verder lezen…
With the eradication of Catholicism in North West Europe by Protestantism, practices of Pilgrimage to holy places were abandoned. With the advent of Secularism and ‘The Grand Tour’ of the well-to-do, pilgrimage re-evolved as ‘tourism’. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s two Essays Verder lezen…
Amsterdam heeft haar eigen nep-rivier die op de Noordzee uitkomt, het Noordzeekanaal bij IJ-muiden, de monding van het IJ. Een verlengstuk van het ‘natuurlijke’ IJ waar Amsterdam aan ligt. Tussen sissende rookgassen, het staal en beton houdt een eigen artificiele Verder lezen…
De laatste echte valkenier Adriaan Mollen uit Valkenswaard zat anderhalve eeuw terug in dit seizoen in zijn tobhut op de Strabrechtse Heide te ‘tobben’: wachten tot slechtvalken uit Scandinavië zouden overtrekken. Wanneer je zit te tobben, wachten in onzekerheid tot Verder lezen…
As the Lancet noted in April 2015 a replication-crisis in science suggests that at least 50 percent of papers that appear in ‘peer reviewed’ journals may simply be untrue. For the environmental sciences, this rate may be even higher as Verder lezen…
We are going to discuss a controversial theory here. That humans never landed on the moon as shown on television, but ‘landed’ in a Hollywood-studio without stars. In order to prepare yourself for the landing, we need to become a Verder lezen…
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) pioneered from 1967 in bringing scientific evidence on environmental issues to the courtroom. One of it’s four founding fathers Charles Wurster details it’s war on the pesticide DDT in ‘DDT Wars’ (2014) up to 1972. Verder lezen…