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When politicians get involved in science

When politicians get involved in science       It is 2022, the bicentenary of the birth of the Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel, the founder of genetics, and this is being celebrated in all kinds of ways. In 1955, as a biology student, I […]

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My drawings of shady ladies at the bar

My drawings of shady ladies at the bar Amsterdam, July 2022 Anne-Ruth Wertheim In 1951 my secondary school in Amsterdam was celebrating its twentieth anniversary. The preparations were in full swing, and our science class was asked to run the bar. In those days […]

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The Indonesian who had stolen opium

When I was in our first Japanese internment camp for about a year, I experienced something that made an immense impression on me. I was nine years old at the time and it has stayed with me all my life. When I was over […]

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Christmas stall

Our grandchildren (fifty fifty girls and boys) made this Christmas stall. Each year they added a few more molded figures. Those are of unbaked clay and therefore very fragile, but we preserve them carefully. The children took it for granted to sculpt queens and […]

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