In love with my daughter.
28 11 07 - 11:36. Category: fools science
No i'm not talking about some pervert kind of incest, but about the love for my newborn daughter.In july 2007 my wife gave birth to a lovely girl, our first child. Being a father and a wannabe scientist this gave me the opportunity to analyse my feelings for both my wife and my daughter. My wife and i are together for almost eight years now. This means that the first feelings of being in love have is replaced by real love. Just after the birth of my daughter my feelings of being in love for my wife grew again. Seeing her so happily playing with our child. This was to be expected ofcourse. But a very strange (to me) fenonemon happened alongside with it. I found myself really in love with my daughter. Even now, four months after she was born, i still feel butterflies in my stomach when she wakes up in the morning and gives me a big smile.
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Do animals talk?
20 01 07 - 15:36. Category: fools science
We man (as in mankind) have the arrogance to think we are the only species who talk. But are we?
Ofcourse we are the only species who can talk about anything we like but if we widen our definition of talking, we will find that more animals use complicated forms of comminication.
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A lump of sugar.
04 12 06 - 16:37. Category: fools science
When i had my breakfast this morning, i wanted to have a cracker with sugar. When i opened the sugar bowl i noticed that there were a lot of lumps in it. So i found myself wondering how the lumping occurs and why the lumps still exist after the sugar has dried up again.
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Dazzling numbers
29 11 06 - 12:50. Category: fools science
Researchers at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider have recently been able penetrate some of the mystics of the beginning of our universe. They collide the nuclei of atomic particles to simmulate the conditions of the first few microseconds of our universe. These collisions generate extremely hot, dense bursts of matter and energy. By pumping the collisions they try to discover new particles and thus verify and improve the theoretical models of the laws of physics. The values of the pressure, density, size and time of these collisions are so inmense that we cannot imagine their meanings anymore. In this article I try to make the numbers more imaginable by using analogies and metaphors.
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Torn between thoughts
22 11 06 - 11:46. Category: fools science
Double thoughts about the palm plantations and rainforest in Indonesia and Malaysia.
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Let me introduce myself
21 11 06 - 00:24. Category: fools science
My name is Wouter Tengeler.
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A Fool's birth
20 11 06 - 20:06. Category: fools science
The start of this weblog.
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