To move towards a more sustainable society, we need alternative products, practices and systems. As a temporary mini society, festivals are a perfect playground to experiment with these alternatives. They offer a real-life context with similarities to the real world where people can experiment with sustainable innovations in a rather safe, fun and laid-back atmosphere.

This guide provides sustainable innovators, start-ups, incubators, festival organisers, researchers, students, government re...

Why do Dragons have 117 Scales? Why not 120 or 167 or any other number? What is that special about this number that the Scales of this Creature who was known for Its Wisdom, Wisdom coming from the Sky, Wisdom once shared with Mankind, was given this specific number. Could it Be that behind this number can be found the Wisdom of Life itself? How it develops and why it develops in specific ways we call Tao or Path of Life. Could it explain the reason behind All that exists. What Wisdo...

What effect will the rising temperatures have on the production of common foods? What would happen if we put the invasive species on the menu? Are the tomatoes we can find in the supermarket advanced pieces of technology or still products of natural processes? And could a plant become a brand? Can we hack our brain’s performance with my lunch? What would be the perfect meal in a fast-food world? Can fast food be personalized to our taste? Or could food become medicine? Could we, literally, ...

“IT is often evaluated based on hard skills. The resilience of architecture, the amount of coding languages you master, how many years of experience the tech department has. These aspects form the pit of the cherry. They are important, but none of them bring innovation. Soft skills do. Innovation grows when people learn from each other, work together and challenge each other. Soft skills are the cherry’s nutritious, sweet flesh that brings all the birds to the yard.”

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Your research idea is worth funding. You know it is. You want others to see it too.

Gaining access to a position or grant starts with that excellent research idea. However, getting your proposal accepted does not just involve having the best idea. It involves writing the best proposal – a proposal that shows that yours is the best project and the best match to the funder’s requirements. This book therefore focusses on the writing skills you need to deliver the best possible proposal.

The ...

This book explains, by following the mainstream of the history of computus (i.e. Paschal reckoning developed from early third century for determining Julian or Alexandrian calendar dates of Paschal Sunday) which shortly after AD 250 rose in Alexandria (Egypt) to ultimately in AD 1582 (turning point in the history of chronology) flow into a more realistic method for determining Gregorian calendar dates of Easter, how at the time calendar dates of Paschal Sunday depended on phases of the moon ...