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Misleading bar and pie charts: How graphs can lead you astray19 December 2022Cutting off the y-axis, using 3D effects and only showing part of the available data: these are all tactics to mislead people with graphs. But they do...
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‘Migration’, ‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages16 December 2022How can teachers have a balanced conversation in the classroom about migration policy, asylum seekers or ethnic discrimination on the labour market? S...
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What do children see in art? Psychologists are studying this at the Rijksmuseum12 December 2022From games to scavenger hunts: museums already do all sorts of things for children. But how do children really look at art? Do paintings affect them m...
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Maritime historians and vocational college students together create historical database25 November 2022What do you do when you’re suddenly given access to a whole lot of data but don’t know how to organise and analyse it? Maritime historians in the Facu...
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Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade coordinators of national centre for science communication21 September 2022Minister Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science) has appointed Ionica Smeets and Alex Verkade as coordinators of a new national centre for science ...
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Why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit16 August 2022When under duress innocent suspects can make a false confession. Why is this? Legal psychologist Linda Geven will give a talk about this at the Leiden...
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Mesmerising images from James Webb space telescope13 July 2022The 'deepest and sharpest' image of the Universe to date: the first photos from the new James Webb space telescope yesterday mesmerised astronomers an...
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LDE white paper on critical materials, green energy and geopolitics28 June 2022With its Green Deal The European Union has set itself much-needed ambitious climate goals. But the energy crisis and geopolitical tensions are making ...
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Minister wants to learn from dissertation on veteran policy23 June 2022Theo van den Doel received his PhD in January for his research on veteran support. This showed that for long the government learned little from past m...
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Spinoza Prize for astrophysicist Ignas Snellen17 June 2022With his clever measuring methods Ignas Snellen – together with his team – was the first to detect carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of exoplanets. Fo...
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Jan Willem Erisman on the nitrogen crisis: 'The measurement model works, but the minister is setting reduction targets that are too high'16 June 2022Opponents of drastic nitrogen measures argue that the nitrogen calculation model is not reliable enough. Nitrogen professor Jan Willem Erisman: 'It is...
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Honours Class tackles climate change head-on25 May 2022An international and interdisciplinary collaborative effort, the Honours Class ‘Sustainability Beyond Frustration: Saving the Planet as an Academic Sk...
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Italian nurse acquitted of murder after statistical analysis25 April 2022Italian nurse Daniela Poggiali was arrested and convicted of murdering two hospital patients in 2014. Her case attracted the attention of Leiden stati...
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Benjamin Suchard: ‘The more you send out into the world, the more likely it will stick’25 April 2022How do you make niche subjects interesting and accessible? Benjamin Suchard, historical linguist and researcher, seems to have created the perfect rec...
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Parental criticism hurts: a glimpse inside the adolescent brain19 April 2022It may seem as though adolescents do as they please, but they are more sensitive to their parents’ opinions than they would appear. The adolescent bra...