Most of us have doubts about the content of morality- we question what is right and wrong. It is hard to determine if it is ever okay to lie, for example, or to distinguish the fine line between taking care of our self interest and being selfish. Some of us have had doubts about morality
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Old Japanese see the jail as their way to escape from their reality as hunger and desperation knock at their doors.
The third economic power of the world is facing aging population problems. The Statistics Bureau of Japan showed in 2018 that elderly people (65 years and over) accounted for 27.7%, whereas the child population (0-14 years old) accounted for 12.3% of Japan’s population in 2017. Are Japanese people getting older nonstop? The economic growth of
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Last Tuesday, House Democrats announced their impeachment charges against President Donald J. Trump. This happened after an almost two-and-a-half-month-long impeachment inquiry into the Trump-Ukraine scandal. Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler announced during a press conference that his committee is introducing two articles on impeachment, charging the president with high crimes and misdemeanors. The first article
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Recently, Spotify released your yearly statistics with minutes listened and your favorite artists. It probably was not hard to miss as almost all your friends shared it on social media. For me, it was the first year using this music platform which made me pleasantly satisfied. So my first question was how do artists make
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The richest generation in the US is about to retire, while the average citizen has barely any savings for retirement. The baby-boomers generation is a vast demographic of people born after the Second World War. At the moment a huge number of them have already started to retire and the effects of this demographic shift
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Becoming a professor without participating in teaching and research? Seems weird …. but not at our faculty. Guest author S. de Beter* tells you more.
For students there are just good and bad teachers. For the academic staff, however, there is a huge difference between PhD, post-doc and assistant professors on the one hand and ‘real’ professors – entitled to call themselves ‘hoogleraar’ – at the other. Those in the first category work hard for little money, often on a
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