When I was still hanging out on Twitter every single day, the beauty of that era was that one could learn all sorts of things about all sorts of things. Some of those things I filed away, mentally, for future reference, and some of these surface now and then. A recent of that I remembers […]
The case of Claudine Gay was not about plagiarism
After an American media frenzy of a few weeks, the new president of Harvard has resigned after the shortest term ever, only 6 months. This saga began with a US congressional hearing in December at which the presidents of drie major universities (all three women) were asked to say something about the increasing anti-Semitism at […]
Teaching is the best job in the world!
This week’s unsolicited advice is about teachers. You can find all columns via Spotify, this edition can be found here: Listen to this column on BNR (Dutch)Listen to this column on Spotify (Dutch) Teachers! Last weekend I read a great piece in the NRC, editor Patricia Veldhuis spent the past year as a special intern […]
Unbelievable AI
Time for a new Unsolicited Advice column this week! You can follow all Unsolicited Advice via Spotify, you can find this edition here: This column on BNR (Dutch)This column on Spotify (Dutch) An “incredible” video this week on Twitter/X: Wow!! With the app HeyGen you can effortlessly speak multiple languages! Alexander Klopping says something in […]
The robots are coming…
This is my third post in my BNR column Unsolicited Advice! You can follow all Unsolicited Advice via Spotify, this edition can be found here: This column on BNR (Dutch)This column on Spotify (Dutch) (after feedback on previous posts, the links are now at the top instead of at the bottom) Let’s talk about the […]
