Only once I’ve had the pleasure to visit this country of Mediterranean laissez-faire. It wasn’t the wonderful weather that made my hearth ablaze with joy, nor was it the blue sea contrasting with the browns and greens of the hills. Not the old bazaar or the modern tourist towers, not even the ancient and dead [...]
In the category “small annoyances in daily life” this one certainly has a place: commercials for loans. Over-happy people beaming their smiles into our living rooms while they’re enjoying their new kitchen, TV or car. Their message: borrow cheap!
The culprit of this Dutch visual vulgarity/needless nonsense has now met his downfall: the DSB Bank. [...]
Suppose you are walking to work and by the side of the road there is a pond. Before your eyes a three-year-old, who was playing a bit too close to the water, falls in. What do you do? Do you risk your expensive suit and jump in or do you pretend not to notice and [...]
This article is the second part of the guest article written by Steven Price, the executive director of the European Institute of Industrial Leadership (EIIL), about the expected shortage of qualified engineers within Europe. For the first part of the article please refer here.
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Part II : ‘What should be done to reverse the decline?’
by Steven [...]
Two days ago Emin Milli turned thirty. He celebrated this in his prison cell, where he and his friend Adnan have been enjoying forced state hospitality ever since they were attacked by two muscle men (who were quickly released from custody).
Gibburt reported about this case last month.
The birthday of Emin Milli has not passed unnoticed: [...]
In our ‘A salute’ guest series from Robert L. Peters, please find below the next installment about psychologist Abraham Maslow.
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‘A salute: Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)’
by Robert L. Peters
Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist noted for his conceptualization of a “hierarchy of human needs”—today he is considered the founder of humanistic psychology. Born into [...]
For a couple of months now, I have been thinking a lot about long and short term goals – and therewith, you could say, about purpose – which has attracted my attention to definitions of success. Fellow Gibburtian Robert had pointed out to me the very eloquently presented idea of Alain de Botton on this [...]
Tegenlicht is a Dutch series of high quality documentaries that is usually only available in Dutch. Recently however Tegenlicht decided to modernize and as such the price winning documentary I am Gurgaon has become available in English here. I am Gurgaon is a fascinating close-up look into Gurgaon, a modern city on the edge [...]
History would have looked different without mr. Joseph Stalin. Several massive events this man can write on his resume, like the Great Purge in the late thirties, during which at least 600,000 people where sentenced to death. And although quite considerable in number, this was just part of Stalin’s great labor: the Gulag camps, deathtraps [...]
No matter how many fancy internet applications become available to us, language barriers are still very real. As it was with the book I wanted to talk about today: People like us from Joris Luyendijk. Originally only released in Dutch, People like us (or in Dutch ‘Het zijn net mensen’) sold very well, but [...]
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