NewsGiven the fact that the internet causes opinions to spread faster, further and more efficiently, why is it that we do not all share the same views? Econophysicist Diego Garlaschelli and his colleagues have come up with an explanation.
Four Leiden researchers have received Vici awards from the NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). Each researcher’s application has been honoured with a subsidy of €1.5 million.
Readers of ‘We are our brains’ (Wij zijn ons brein) will not let such an opportunity pass them by. And their numbers are not insignificant if one considers the more than 240,000 copies of the book that have sold. Dick Swaab is the honorary guest at the Leidsche Ganymedes Borrel on 27 January and at the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) on 6 February.