It is 11am on a Saturday morning in the coastal city of Ålesund. For once, the weather is nice enough to be outside, but the city is sleeping. The city, that is home to approximately 70 thousand inhabitants, has seen a lot of change during the last 10 years. As a competing shopping mall, 15 minutes outside the city, has grown bigger and bigger, stores … Continue reading The future of the empty streets in Ålesund
“When I get nightmares I just start to dance in my dream. I have to dance really quickly before the skeletons catch me.” These are the words of a 4th grader at Optimist International School, Hoofddorp. The night looks different through children’s eyes. It seems like it becomes more magical, but also scarier. The children let you into their world and talk about what they really think of … Continue reading Children’s thoughts on the night
Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Het Parool, Michiel Couzy, has over twenty years of experience as a journalist. He believes mainstream media is more important than ever, but at the same time, the behaviour towards journalists has changed. How has journalism as a profession changed since you started? It hasn’t happened to me, but there have been times when journalists have been attacked during work. Before, the … Continue reading Michiel Couzy: “This isn’t healthy criticism towards journalists anymore, it’s violence”
Doctor Guus Westerhof advices his patients to stop smoking weed, they don’t listen. Specialised in pulmonology and working at Amsteerdam UMC, Westerhof knows what a damaged lung looks like. “We often see holes in people’s lungs. We see it after use of cigarettes, but weed causes the holes more clearly,” he says. Westerhof tells his patients to stop smoking, but very few actually quit. Smokers … Continue reading Patients neglect the damage of smoking weed
