Byline: Sjang ten Hagen
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Turning Tides: Ebb
Shells&Pebbles launched ten years ago today. The first piece, by Floris Solleveld, featured a frontispiece from Lyell’s Principles of Geology: a view of the shore at Puzzuoli. It draws the eye to the shells and mussels remaining after the water first rose to submerge an ancient marketplace, then retreated again. An evocative image, but like…
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Feiten of Daadzaken?
In de nasleep van de door Donald Trump gewonnen Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen ontstond er een hoogoplopende discussie over ‘alternatieve feiten’.[1] Veel wetenschappers voelden zich door de overwinning van Trump in het nauw gedreven, en richtten zich massaal op tijdens de wereldwijde March for Science. De marcherende bondgenoten van de wetenschap gingen vooral de straat op ter…
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The Belgian reception of relativity theory
In 1919, with the experimental verification of general relativity by the English astronomer, physicist and mathematician Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, Albert Einstein’s theory came to be celebrated worldwide. Newspapers across the globe hailed Eddington’s observations as definitive proof of Einstein’s postulates on gravitation.