I said to blog more about the statues and interaction design of Stockholm. There’s always a risk though in saying so, will you.. Well yes, but not as I planned. Anyway there are a few things I’d like to tell. First is Järnpojke (Järn = iron, pojke = boy). First of all because I think [...]

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The last days I’ve been reading the blog of the Dutch crown prince, Willem-Alexander, also Prince of Orange. Willem-Alexander blogged about the trip to Antarctica he and Máxima made. In his first post, after they started in the beautiful Torres del Paine park in Chili, he writes: (…) Al hoewel het niet mijn bedoeling is [...]

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Saturday morning early we – almost all exchange students – left to Stockholm. The night before I’ve been dancing at a party at Kåren (the student union) which made it extra early.. but I was mentally prepared. At the station I bought a Balder (a sandwich with the same name as my brother) as I [...]

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Watching a dance of five snowplows in front of my apartment :)

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I think I finally know how to pronounce the place where I live :) To I met St. Eskil, see him on the right. This saint founded the tuna (a Swedish name for a village). First I would pronounce Eskilstuna without much emphasis. But now I know to lay the emphasis on the E and [...]

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For my course I have to read some extra literature next to the required ones, literature I choose myself. After some search in old patterns (education, virtual reality) I got the idea to search for time, how we experience time and how that influences our behavior. We already had some of this in the lectures [...]

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At Friday I was looking around at Wikipedia to see what this ‘hiking’ was about. I learned about the ‘Ten Essentials’; a list of items you should always bring with you when hiking. Most of it I didn’t have but that wouldn’t be so much of a problem. The path we would be walking was [...]

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Nooo, the christmas tree is gone.. Untill yesterday this house close to the station still had one.

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I always had the idea that science was mostly researching things we already held for the truth. I sat with my mother at the kitchen table, discussing items from the newspaper. Here this idea sprouted; those small news items which only told us what we already knew. And, of course, holding a lot of information [...]

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At the same lecture we also talked a bit on non-verbal language. At the end of the lecture I invited everyone to take one of the tomato pies I had been making. I told it was common in my culture to bring some snacks with when you’re celebrating your birthday (my actual birthday is tomorrow). [...]

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