Since the beginning of December 2022 the press reports on COVID-measures and their sustained enforcement practices leading to troubles in the PRC. As in the… Read More »Covid numbers in CN, NL and the US ’20 – 23′
紅樓夢 or The Dream of the Red Chamber is one of China’s four classics. It is said to be a masterpiece that clarifies much of… Read More »Translations
If happiness is the experience of being an active part of an ecological equilibrium, I thought on September 27, then the images you collect provide… Read More »4 Selected Images
It was July, there was wind and it was 24 degrees. The sun was shining. Ernst, who considers himself more of an image collector than… Read More »The image collector and the director
My mother, Wendela, who was a daughter of Arnoud, lived from 1912 to 1994, my grandfather from 1873 to 1953. Nescio (no relation) from 1882… Read More »Arnoud Waller
Nescio’s Natuurdagboek (Nature Diary) is for himself. A log. With times and places of trips to where those who have legs and eyes can harvest… Read More »Nescio, his walks and Bert Verhoeff
Nienke gave me Nescio’s biography. It is incredibly well written, so I reread his first stories. Reluctantly at first because I had read them when… Read More »Nescio Revisited
Today is Monday, July 19, 2021, Freedom Day in the UK. The COVID measures are gone. This led to massive physical fraternization in the streets,… Read More »Freedom Day and a Tentative Prediction
Again: an ABCM pattern I’ve been maniacally busy with an impossible assignment for the last few weeks. An hour-long lecture to young scientists dedicated to… Read More »Differences and Climate: the USA
I’ve been maniacally busy with an impossible assignment the last few weeks. An hour-long lecture to young scientists dedicated to machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence… Read More »Differences and Climate: China