Emiel Hassefras
Student Applied Earth Sciences
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Top Down Brain to Brain Interfacing
The realisation of telepathy in the not so distant futureIn recent years research on brain computer interfacing has strongly developed. For the future a logical next step is the interface between two brains or brain-to-brain communication. Sounds a bit scary! So which values have to be taken into consideration before it can be accepted by the market? What kind of development approach is needed? Brain to brain interfacing is a combination of brain… -
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The Radical MOOC
Education moves increasingly to a digital environment. What will be the roll of classical education with physical contact in the future? -
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Walk Ahead of Frugal Innovation
The Jaipur foot is an example of an extremely successful frugal innovation. The prosthetic leg is developed for people with below-knee amputation in 1968 and has over 1.3 million beneficiaries. The prosthesis costs 45 dollars to make and is provided totally free of charge. -
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BP's Blowout Blunder
Risk management failure causing the blowout of the Macondo wellThe Macondo blowout caused the explosion that killed 11 people and injured many others who were working on the BP platform Deepwater Horizon in 2010. Also a huge oil spill was caused by this disaster. Was this disaster unpreventable or have their been risk management failures? A blowout is the phenomenon that the fluid pressure within the reservoir exceeds the fluid pressure of the drilling mud. -
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Oil Sands, a Risky Resource
Due to oil sand excavation large amount of toxic rest products contaminate the Canadian water network. -
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A lesson from the old days: Brent Spar
The Brent Spar issue was a painful lesson for Shell where emotional gut feelings overwhelmed rational decisions. -
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Elderly and Robots
Are we collectively responsible for the previous generation or are you as child fully responsible for your own parents?