Society

Hoe worden rechercheurs en centralisten van de 112-alarmcentrale getraind in het voeren van efficiënte gesprekken?

Mirror neurons have been considered one of the most important discoveries of modern neuroscience.

People have an interesting way of reasoning. It seems quite logical to us, but it has proven difficult to implement this in the ultimate logical system, the computer.

Design of autonomous robots can strongly benefit from knowledge of biology and self-organization.

Manfred Spitzer warns us that too much computer use leads to ‘digital dementia’. The more we use computers , the more our memory is deteriorating.

Gunter Pauli’s Blue Economy is a different way of economic thinking.

Het hersenonderzoek zal in toenemende mate maatschappelijke consequenties hebben, op verschillende terreinen: de geneeskunde, de opvoeding, justitie, defensie en politiek.

The value of the arts is no longer self-evident, nor is research and education in the arts.

Money is nothing more than debt created by banks. How does a debt crisis work? And how can we prevent crises and get out of our current one?

Wie wint de Wetenschapsquiz van het Kenniscafé Groningen: de alfa’s, de gamma’s, de bèta’s, het mix-team van studenten of het publiek (de ‘wisdom of the crowd’)?