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People with a doctorate may recognize this moment: you realize there are few souls in your direct vicinity who have their feet so deep in the exact same ‘mud’ as you. You effectively ‘marry’ your topic for four years, for better or worse, bouncing your ideas off the wall, and the occasional colleague who researches… [Continue Reading]
Nowadays heaps of memes, videos and other content sweep across our collective retinas. As ever more people join the ranks of the ‘on-line’, and existing netizens spent more time there due to the still raging pandemic, an ideal breeding ground for media to go ‘viral’ emerged. Can things really go viral though? Are there unwritten… [Continue Reading]
Since 2018 I own a board game called Pandemic. The goal of this cooperative board game is to slow down the spread of four diseases across the globe, while simultaneously finding a cure for each of them. The main mechanic in Pandemic is the doubling of the ‘amount’ of disease in major cities once an… [Continue Reading]
