Blogs and columns

• Botanic garden
  Organisation - 12 May 2010 00:00 - 'Wageningen University and Research Centre has closed down the tropical greenhouse last year and given up on the scientific management of two botanic...  0
• Smoke fumes
  Student - 28 April 2010 00:00 - My first reaction is not one of alarm. I was mainly caught by surprise at the thick fumes in the nature reserve I go to almost every weekend. I see...  0
• Megasheds
  Organisation - 28 April 2010 00:00 - Some time ago, my twelve-year-old daughter wrote a letter to the minister Gerda Verburg in which she asked if pigs could have a good life in pig flats...  0
• Frank's construction company
  Student - 14 April 2010 00:00 - I wrote a column about Frank Simons last year. In fact, Frank is just a pseudonym. I had to make the name up because the real person wanted to stay...  0
• The S-infection
  Organisation - 14 April 2010 00:00 - I've had it up to here, bit by bit. With The Mexican Fever, bird flu, swine flu, H5N1 and most recently, the Q-Fever, or the 'Query Fever', in other...  0
• Sweater
  Student - 31 March 2010 00:00 - I have my very own WUR sweater: a dark blue one. I thought my choice was quite uncontroversial, but not a bit of it.  0
• The garden of science
  Organisation - 31 March 2010 00:00 - Sunshine, and the spring-time warbling of blackbirds. A friend and I are strolling past the allotments of the Wageningse Eng, where vegetables are...  0
• Sss...snake
  Student - 17 March 2010 00:00 - Terrified, I leap out of the bathroom. Jip had warned me about this, but I hadn't expected to see such a heap of flour when I entered. Except where my...  0
• An international mirror
  Organisation - 17 March 2010 00:00 - Typical Dutch is a great column. It is often the first thing I read. It is like one of those distorting mirrors with an international slant built in....  0
• Health claims rejected
  Science - 03 March 2010 00:00 - The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has rejected the vast majority of the health claims for food products and supplements. Renger Witkamp,...  0