"The Netherlands is not as liberal as you think"
“The Netherlands is not as liberal as you think”
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“The Netherlands is not as liberal as you think”
From the blog of Nitzan Hamburg at The Times of Israel
Climate activists blindfolded dozens of statues in various locations around the country on Sunday. These included the statue of Aletta Jacobs in Groningen, Queen Wilhelmina in Utrecht and Apeldoorn, and Boniface in Dokkum. Statues in other countries were also blindfolded. Scientist Rebellion, an international movement of scientists and academics concerned about the climate, said it is responsible for the action.
Today is both Chocolate Day, and Pizza Pie Day!
In 1798 Thomas Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population. It posed the conundrum of geometrical population growth’s outstripping arithmetic expansion in resources. Malthus, who was an Anglican clergyman, recommended late marriage and sexual abstinence as methods of birth control. A small group of early 19th-century freethinkers, including Jeremy Bentham, Francis Place (himself the father of 15 children), and John Stuart Mill, suggested more pragmatic birth control methods such as coitus interruptus, vaginal barriers, and postcoital douching. Robert Dale Owen, the son of a Scottis...