Het is weekend. Voor elk wat waars.
On ne découvre pas l'absurde sans être tenté d'écrire quelque manuel du bonheur. "Eh! quoi, par des voies si étroites... ?" Mais il n'y a qu'un monde. Le bonheur et l'absurde sont deux fils de la même terre. Ils sont inséparables. L'erreur serait de dire que le bonheur naît forcément de la découverte absurde. Il arrive aussi bien que le sentiment de l'absurde naisse du bonheur.
Prettig weekend. En be nice.
The first person to write about the square root of a negative number was Italian mathematician Girolamo Cardano, in 1545.
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) October 12, 2023
He would later state that thinking about it caused him "mental tortures" pic.twitter.com/Xl97RpRUK8
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Oklahoma City's oldest arcade has reinvented itself as a competitive pinball mecca.
volkskrant.nl
Flitsbezorger, koffersjouwer, klantenservicemedewerker: Jeroen van Bergeijk bekleedde als undercoverjournalist talloze functies. Nu zijn zijn verha...
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For generations now Israel has pursued a policy of divide and rule against the Palestinians, while (to use an euphemism) discouraging the development of popular, local democratic leaders in occupied territories. It has also failed to incorporate Israeli-Arab participation in coalition governments as a routine matter. Three significant (related) effects of this have been that, first, no Palestinian partner could ever deliver on any agreement and, second, radical factions always had an effective veto over any Israeli-Palestinian rapprochement. And, third, Zionism has come to be understood by its enemies and itself as a project that cannot allow Palestinian agency.
mareonline.nl
Moreel gezien lijkt het de juiste reflex om te stoppen met samenwerkingen tussen de universiteit en de fossiele industrie. Maar dat zou de vereiste energietransitie onnodig vertragen, betogen Sense Jan van der Molen, Marc Koper en Victor van der Horst.
Waanzinnig Land E25. https://t.co/2JyotBrkCG pic.twitter.com/dqgk5aXmIM
— Johan Fretz (@JohanFretz) October 12, 2023
Bepaalde verschrikkingen, zoals de onmenselijke terreurdaden van rusland en hamas, wennen nooit, schrijft @TheodorHolman.
— 𝙳𝚘𝚗 𝙸𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚘 (@TheRealDonInigo) October 10, 2023
Terecht. pic.twitter.com/aQcspbmfFy