Joop Schaminée
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Fraud
- My daughter asked me this week if I would fill in a few questionnaires for her. -
Seven billion
- Numbers with a lot of zeros quite easily make me dizzy. -
Top 100
- It is raining and it is November, wrote Dutch poet J.C. Bloem 80 years ago in one of his most famous verses, a verse literally dripping with gloom -
Invasive species
- In the classic horror film The Day of the Triffids, exotic plants threaten to take over the world. Is this pure science fiction? -
Ambition
- A few months ago I wrote about Bleker in connection with his standpoint on the Ecological Main Structure. Henk Bleker: Secretary of State for Economy,... -
Climate change
- Plants and animals appear to be able to migrate to cooler territory faster than was believed for a long time. This ability enables them to keep one... -
Worries
- Five trillion euros evaporated from stock exchanges worldwide last week. A thirteen-figure sum. Too much to wrap your mind around. What will the... -
Farming at sea
- In this column two weeks ago I argued for a real revolution to combat the problems caused by the excess nitrogen that ends up in the natural... -
Revolution
- When Justus Freiherr von Liebig discovered artificial fertilizer in 1860, no one could imagine that this discovery would unleash an agricultural... -
Salad
- There are busy times ahead for Wageningen researchers. After the pigs with their swine flu, the cows with their mad cow disease, the chickens with...