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Where Amsterdam people go and visit on a free day
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Nuclear Energy and Values at stake
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Update week 10
De hele week hebben we hard gewerkt aan ons businessplan, het eindverslag en natuurlijk de bouw van de cabana. Voor elke stap die we doen lijkt het alsof er drie nieuwe stappen in het zicht komen. Dus we zijn deze week écht begonnen met rennen om al deze stappen nog te kunnen zetten voor ons vertrek. Aan het eind van deze week kregen we de eerste twee tegenslagen van ons project. Misschien… -
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Two sides of sustainable development
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Do we need the Terminator?
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Mirror, Mirror, Facebook wall, Who's the prettiest of them all?
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The social desirable moral overload
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Be safe, stay inside!
The excess of the precautionary principle if applied on individuals.We’ve all heard it at some point in our live: Be careful. Now when considering this, it is a very weird suggestion. Most of you probably were not going to get themselves intentionally run over by a car before hearing these two words: Be careful. ,,Predicting the future is hard.’’ Niels Bohr. In technology and innovation it makes sense. When innovating in a responsible way it is important to… -
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Understanding risk? Understanding gain!
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The price of cost-efficient killing
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Bombing oil-rich Middle East leads indeed to refugee streams
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Gene technology: creating an (ideal) world!
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Is innovation always improvement?
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Public values vs. self-interest in the gas dilemma in Groningen: an example of irresponsibility
Emotions, values and technologies need to go hand in hand, in order to prevent dilemmas of moral overload and unhealthy debates between…