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Archaeologist Rachel Schats on Science071 about malaria in medieval low countriesOsteoarchaeologist Rachel Schats investigates traces of malaria in old human skeletons. Even though the disease cannot be spotted directly in bone mat...
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Caribbean island of St. Kitts gets first Doctor in ArchaeologyOn February 4th standing before his doctoral committee at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology, St. Kitts-born Cameron Gill, successfully defended and re...
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Freya Baetens on free trade agreement between European Union and CanadaThe Dutch House of Representatives is deeply divided about the contested trade agreement between the European Union and Canada (Ceta). The economic f...
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Correspondence article by Eduard Fosch-Villaronga in Nature Machine IntelligenceRobot technology is flourishing in multiple sectors of society, including retail, health care, industry and education. However, are robots representat...
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Eduard Schmidt Researches Role of Top Officials in Austerity MeasuresDr. Eduard Schmidt interviewed a hundred government managers from different ministries who had to perform cuts in own budget to various extents, under...
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Van der Heide on jihadism in the SahelJihadism and smugglers, gold fever and ethnic strive. It is a toxic mix that makes the Sahel a volatile region in which jihadi's thrive. In the Dutch ...
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Back again: border controls in the Schengen areaJorrit Rijpma responds in Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant to attention surrounding the reintroduction of border controls in the Schengen area.
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Improving football skills using data-miningUsing positional data to determine which tactics lead to a successful attack? Rens Meerhoff, researcher at the Sports Data Center of the Leiden Instit...
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Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam about extreme shynessJanna Marie Bas-Hoogendam is a neuroscientist at the Institute of Psychology and conducts research on the brains of families suffering from social anx...
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Room to tighten legislation on family reunification?In order to reduce the great flow of asylum seekers the Netherlands – and also other European countries – is faced with, the review of the entitlement...
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Lively debate after panel on current events in IranOver 170 people took part in the panel on current events in Iran organized by LUCIS. A bustling crowd of Dutch-Iranians, students, University staff, a...
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Arco Timmermans in the BNR News Radio lobby panel about Brexit
In the BNR lobby panel, a topic is highlighted every week that lies at the intersection of entrepreneurship and politics. Arco Timmermans, Professor b...
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Risk profiling Act SyRI off the tableThis week the regional court in The Hague gave a ruling that has attracted international attention. The State of the Netherlands (Ministry of Social A...
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Dies lecture Carsten de Dreu at Maastricht University on leadershipOn the 44th anniversary of Maastricht University, organisational psychologist Carsten de Dreu has transferred the dies lecture: 'On the Psychology and...
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Interview with osteoarchaeologist Rachel Schats in National Geographic MagazineOsteoarchaeologist Rachel Schats investigates traces of illnesses and disorders in human skeletons. Her search for malaria in the Low Countries' middl...