Growing up I watched a lot of animated series, and I still do because they are amazing. My animation journey thus started early on with baby-books,...
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The Immutability of Time
Two times a year, the clock changes. We either get an hour more or an hour less. We’re all so used to this that it doesn’t...
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Language Games
The inspiration for writing this blog post came to me while trying to have a conversation with my mother. Keyword: trying. It has become increasingly difficult...
Continue reading...Ancestors on trial: historical court records online
Did you ever wonder if one of your ancestors has been to court, or maybe even served time in prison? With the help of online databases,...
Continue reading...The environmental cost of the internet
Past weekend I had a discussion with my father about the climate march of the preceding Friday, I was talking about how the size of the...
Continue reading...DestinyTalks Episode 1: Let’s talk about Tinder.
Join Iman Hasan Slaka, Caressa Betist Thenu and Joseph Thabang Palframan in this podcast exploring the realm of tinder!
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Just me, my data and I
Your personality, your merch
You might enjoy video games, but did you know you can make a living out of playing them? This got me thinking, so I started investigating...
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Humans Are Social Animals “We, as humans, are social animals.” This is a phrase that I have been hearing since middle school. I have learned that...
Continue reading...Dystopian future? China’s social credit system and the surveillance state
Since the People’s Republic of China announced in 2014 that they will launch a new system that is supposed to make sure it’s citizens and corporations...
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As a child, we’ve all looked up at the night sky, trying to count the stars. But even that tiny piece of sky was so filled...
Continue reading...Releasing the iPhone 11, an admirable pursuit?
For the past decade, the role of Apple in the digital world has grown tremendously, becoming an industry that is both leading and constantly changing the...
Continue reading...Digital photo manipulation
“A picture is worth a thousand words.” Although academics should prefer to read a thousand words above just looking at an image to draw conclusions, there...
Continue reading...”After all, tomorrow is another day.”
The last blog already. And what better way to start it then with a quote from Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind? For this last blog...
Continue reading...All the possibilities
So, all these weeks I have been blogging about all these different ways to make history fun and more modern using digital means. Today I would...
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Games with historic themes have been popular since the early beginnings. Popular historic game titles are Command & Conquer, Rome: Total War and Age of Empires....
Continue reading...Something lost. . .
Usually I write this really upbeat blog, but today will be different. So prepare yourself for a change of pace. Normally I talk about all the...
Continue reading...Everything Must Come to an End?
Does everything have to come to an end? According to Nelly Furtado, ‘all good things come to an end’. But how right is she? Is there...
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