Our planetary footprint has become so incredibly large, precisely because we have been doing less and less ourselves. Our entire culture revolves around outsourcing. First to slaves, then to wage slaves, machines and now also to AI. We let others produce (often industrially) all sorts of things, in clean-looking …

Leipzig-based German media theorist Annekatherin Kohout has written a ‚cultural studies’ history of the nerd figure. Nerds, Eine Popkulturgeschichte was published in 2022 by C.H. Beck in Munich. I was drawn to this study as I’ve been surrounded by nerds, geeks and programmers that have been building …

Echinoderm mass mortality events shape marine ecosystems by altering the dynamics among major benthic groups. The sea urchin Diadema antillarum, virtually extirpated in the Caribbean in the early 1980s by an unknown cause, recently experienced another mass mortality beginning in January 2022. We investigated …

Staatssecretaris Uslu en de Raad voor Cultuur hameren op het belang van fair pay door rijksgesubsidieerde culturele instellingen. Ook in het muziekonderwijs valt nog een wereld te winnen, weet onderzoeker en docentenopleider Imre Kruis. De uurtarieven van muziekdocenten zijn bedroevend laag. ‘Ik schrijf …

The energy management systems industry in the built environment is currently an important topic. Buildings use about 40% of the total global energy worldwide. Therefore, the energy management system’s sector is one of the most influential sectors to realize changes and transformation of energy use. New …

Introduction: Individuals working in the field of veterinary care are regularly affected by their profession. High levels of responsibility to often provide life-saving health care to animals combined with having to manage owners' expectations and irregular working hours can cause considerable levels …

Given the increasing importance of sustainability as a part of one’s daily routine and life in countries in the European Union, there is a need to establish a basic understanding of the attitudes, behaviours and culture among older people. This, in turn, should lead to better policies which help alleviate …

Light is a form of energy produced by a luminous object which occurs as electromagnetic radiation and is closely related to other forms like radio waves, microwaves, gamma rays, infrared, UV and X radiation. The different kinds of radiation can be classified by using wavelengths. Only a small section …

Aim: Informal caregivers share common experiences in providing care to someone with health and/or social needs, but at the same time their experiences differ across diverse backgrounds such as gender, age, culture, as these aspects of diversity co-shape these experiences. This scoping review aims to …

People living with dementia need flexible care to maximise their independence, enabling them to respond to their changing needs at different points in time. At present, care is either limited at home or all-encompassing in an establishment. CASCADE is the abbreviation of Community Areas of Sustainable …