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I sit at our kitchen table, very old-fashioned, toiling digitally. I can’t concentrate on my work from behind my laptop. For the picture; opposite me is my roommate and office mate. He has a video meeting that lasts an hour and a half and is about cars. Upstairs, within earshot, our student is sitting neatly…
Organic products generally yield more to farmers than ‘regular’ products. But farmers do not en masse switch to organic farming, because the switching costs are high, there is less demand and the yield per hectare is usually lower. This is the conclusion of the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) after research by Wageningen…
Een korte zomer lang waren de ‘normale’ patiënten terug op de ic, maar nu stroomt het Amsterdam UMC weer vol met covidpatiënten. Maud Effting loopt twee dagen mee op de ic en voelt de spanning bij intensivisten en verpleegkundigen oplopen. Maud Effting10 oktober 2020, 5:00 Het is 8.49 uur in de ochtend als intensivist Alexander…
Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado took bronze with the U23 at the World Cup mountain bike in Leogang, Austria on Saturday. The 22-year-old Dutch saw the world title go to the Frenchwoman Loana Lecomte. 22-year-old Alvarado conceded 2.42 minutes to the unapproachable winner. The silver went to Kata Blanka from Hungary, who finished more than a…
Apple has again won a battle against game maker Epic in the legal battle around Fortnite. A federal judge in California ruled that the US tech giant is under no obligation to return the popular game to the App Store. Earlier, a judge reached the same verdict in an interlocutory judgment. The two parties have…
Earwax, faeces bacteria and street dirt… Research shows that our smartphone is much more filthy than a toilet seat and that the device can contain up to seventeen thousand bacterial genes. What risks are there with dirty smartphones? Charlotte Michels, an infection prevention expert, works in healthcare. The hygiene rules in the field of smartphones…
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Last week the campaign ‘The forgotten garden season’ started, in collaboration with many parties such as Operation Steenbreek, Tuinbranche Nederland and NL Greenlabel, among others. We want to make people aware that autumn is the perfect time to work outside. I have also worked a lot in the garden myself and it is lovely outside….
As the number of corona infections at work is increasing rapidly, companies must be stricter about who can or cannot come to the office. In sectors where working from home is not possible, employees with complaints – such as a cold and sore throat – must stay at home. But that does not happen everywhere…
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (center) brokered talks in Moscow between Azerbaijan’s foreign ministers, Jeyhun Bayramov (left), and Armenia, Zohrab Mnatsakanyan (right).Image AP Lavrov announced this last night at 3:00 am (local time, 2:00 am in the Netherlands) in Moscow, after delegations from both countries had held talks for 10 hours in the Russian capital….
Egan Bernal will no longer be in action this year. The 22-year-old INEOS rider has not yet recovered from the physical discomfort he suffered during the last Tour de France, he says on Instagram. Bernal left the Tour with back problems last month before the start of the seventeenth stage and has not raced since…