Research

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Our post-corona relationship to nature

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Wicked dilemmas and political decision-making

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Inequality kills

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Scenario thinking: embracing uncertainty

Will we soon let go of traditional forecasting in favor of multi-dimensional scenario thinking?

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The (un)changing doctor-patient relationship

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Retroscope 2019: Socio-cultural

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Horror in times of uncertainty

Horror movies allow us to safely explore extreme scenarios... what do they tell us about our current fears?

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Limits to facial recognition

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Smart home care for our second adulthood

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Revolutionaries between UFOs and raids

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Will hiding the like button help Facebook?

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Could we live without a job?

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What is the impact of mindfulness on society?

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Generation Alpha

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Zeroing in on 0.0% beers

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Worker rights, a new frontier for reducing U.S. inequality?

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Gen Z in the generational cycle

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High hopes for holiness

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Demographics and hegemony

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Who are the African youth?

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The elastic generation

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Hegel and the unfolding idea of freedom in the 21st century

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The codification of public policy

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Fleeing from the public squares of the internet

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Whistleblower platforms in the wake of Wikileaks’ demise

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Sustainable by default

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The dilemma of future sports regulation

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To measure someone is to know someone

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The social promise of augmented reality

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The evolving landscape of consumer trust

Will generative AI bring the productivity increases we need?

Information technology and the lack of corresponding increases in productivity

Are we heading towards post-human intelligence?

Rethinking being human in a more-than-human world

Beyond planetary boundaries: towards Earth systems justice

Linking new developments in Earth systems research to the Deep Transitions Framework

FreedomLab Selects: Rinus van de Velde — The Armchair Voyager

Vivian Elion analyses the surrealistic exhibition of Rinus van de Velde through the lens of metamodernism.

Romantic robots: a new love paradigm

Will our society's progressive values lead us to embrace a new romantic paradigm?

Health is the luxury to fall sick and recover

Towards an enriched concept of the normal and the pathological

ChatGPT and the place of the human being in an automated society

An unconventional reflection on Hannah Arendt’s philosophy

Urban greening should focus on equity, not nature

The external valuation of nature in city planning could withhold green areas from becoming accessible to all

Pills, pills, pills

Sebastiaan Crul discusses the inevitability of techno-fixes in a world haunted by crises

The case for climate radicalism

The impacts of climate change are increasingly being felt all across the globe.