The UN adjusted its forecast of the world’s population. It is not the forecast, but the better counting methods that adjusted the date. In fact, if you look at the proposed counters, you will notice the wide discrepancies in the estimates. The UN states that on Nov 15, 2022, we will officially have 8 000 000 000 inhabitants. This collage […]
One fact I always quote at the end of 4th grade: What if we were to build Australia, furnish it like the municipality of Dilbeek? A Flemish village with 1000 inhabitants per km² The earth has just over 7.7 billion inhabitants, Australia is 7.7 million km². A simple calculation shows that the population density of this vast country is about […]
Do you know that feeling?That guilty feeling of throwing away that mountain of food after that great barbecue.If not, don’t bother reading on! Why do we always have so much food left over at such a party?It is relatively easy to explain.The insight into this mechanism will later give us the opportunity to find the answer to the question of […]
CLIL in our Flemish education system is a nice way to melt one of the most common languages used ( on the web ) and the most accurate source to knowledge. We must be aware of fakenews, but the peer-to-peer factchecking is a proces in witch I believe. It allows me also to spread some idea’s beyond the borders of […]