Etiket: NRC
Opinion | Rammel – NRC
For some time now I have been hearing a rather disturbing rattle in the right door of my car. Especially when accelerating. And one of the windshield wipers falters. To…
Mammoths, permafrost and erratic boulders – NRC
‘Record mild turn of the year fits in with a warming trend’ headlined the KNMI this week on its own website. In De Bilt it was 15.9 ° C last…
Column | Green slope – NRC
In my youth you had news year cards from mouth and foot painters. I thought of that when I read about a child who lost a hand and an eye…
Opinion | Solemn – NRC
I explain to my six-year-old son that some boys feel like a girl. You can then go to the doctor to become a girl, if you really want to. A…
Opinion | Calculating – NRC
I buy a drainer for 12.99 euros. At the checkout I pay with a fifty euro note. The young man kindly asks if I can pay appropriately or otherwise with…
Living on polluted soil – NRC
For decades, waste was buried in the ground. What couldn’t be seen couldn’t hurt either. This resulted in hectares of polluted soil in the Netherlands. Now that the housing shortage…
Opinion | Sigh – NRC
Tuesday evening at the bicycle repair shop at Amsterdam Central. While a man repairs my bicycle, his colleague stares into space at the cash register and lets out a deep…
Opinion | divorce – NRC
My daughter (5) tells me that the parents of a child are getting divorced in class and that this has been discussed in the circle. I react quite shocked with…
Bought precedes received – NRC
Buying is so much easier than reading. In the meantime I hardly dare to enter a bookstore anymore, because of the reading backlog. In the permanent stack, the main distinction…
Opinion | blackbird – NRC
In the twilight in the forest I pass a woman who looks up. “Do you also hear that blackbird whistling?” she asks. Indeed, I hear that. A blackbird singing on…