Australia Day is celebrated on 26 January, the anniversary of Britain’s First Fleet arriving in Sydney in 1788, the day is controversial as it marks the start of Australia’s colonisation.
Branded by its critics as “Invasion Day”, it attracts annual protest rallies drawing attention to the injustices faced by Indigenous people.
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Standbeeld in Melbourne aan enkels doorgezaagd uit protest tegen Australia Day
Dinsdag 11 februari 2025, commissie Justitie en Veiligheid (J&V).
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Een verbod op Extinction Rebellion en Greenpeace met dank aan de PvdA
Zaterdag; Wat eten we vandaag?; A10-blokkade.
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De poëzieweek is een themaweek die begint op de laatste donderdag van januari (= Gedichtendag), eindigt op de vrijdag acht dagen later en door de grootste Nederlands en Vlaamse poëzieorganisaties wordt georganiseerd.
Op 19 september 2012 maakte de Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek (CPNB) dat eind januari 2013 de eerste poëzieweek wordt georganiseerd om het bereik van poëzie te vergroten. De Poëzieclub, Poetry International, Iedereen Leest vzw, Stichting Lezen Nederland, Wintertuin, en het Poëziecentrum werken hier aan mee. Tijdens deze week worden er meerdere evenementen gehouden zoals de Gedichtendag, de VSB Poëzieprijs wordt uitgereikt en zal de Turing Nationale Gedichtenwedstrijd worden gehouden.
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Opposite Day is a game usually played by children, one can declare that 25 January is Opposite Day (sometimes retroactively) to indicate something which will be said, or has just been said should be understood opposite to its original meaning (similar to the practice of crossed fingers to automatically nullify promises).
The game has also been compared to a children’s “philosophy course”. An analysis of this concept would conclude that Opposite day causes a self-referential paradox. In theory, the statement “it is opposite day”, if uttered on opposite day, should mean “it is not opposite day”. However, the statement “it is not opposite day” also does not clearly communicate the meaning of “it is opposite day”, since it must first be communicated that it is opposite day before the statement can be interpreted this way. Therefore, there is no unambiguous way to communicate that the current day is opposite day. However, this issue can be rectified by acknowledging that when the statement “it is Opposite Day” is made, it is exempt from the normal system of reversal as its purpose is to inform others of Opposite Day, and to be better at speaking.
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The Complete Guide to Celebrating Opposite Day on January 25, 2023
The Observatory Science Centre is an educational charity which has called the Grade II listed, former home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux, East Sussex, home for the last 30 years.
The Canadian landlords, Queen’s University, who also own Herstmonceux Castle, are not renewing the Science Centre’s lease, so come the end of the 2026 season the Science Centre will be homeless. Over the years the science centre have worked tirelessly to fund and restore the site and the telescopes back to their former glory. The centre is a major venue for exhibitions, lectures and educational programmes. The renovated telescopes provide a unique setting for the general public, schools, colleges, and brownie and scout groups to learn about science, space and the world around them. Whilst the Science Centre is in search for a new site to continue operations beyond 2026, they should not have to leave the Observatory site at all and the historic site should be preserved for future generations as a great educational tool of significant historical importance. Please sign this petition for someone to step in and prevent the Science Centre from having to leave the Observatory site.
Aspartame is found in thousands of products across Europe, including popular soft drinks such as Coca-Cola Zero, Sprite Zero and Pepsi Max, this sweetener has long been controversial.
In 2023, the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified it as possibly carcinogenic. Still, EU authorities insisted that normal consumption should be harmless. Now, the foodwatch report ‘Clean Washing Aspartame: Why aspartame needs to be banned, based on independent science‘ sheds light on the scientific discussion about the risks of aspartame and reveals the gaps and industry influence in EU risk assessment.
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Nieuwe studies versterken argwaan aspartaam, EU blijft muisstil
Vrijdag; Wat eten we vandaag?; Storm Éowyn; Zorg; Open Access; Dag van het Onderwijs; Wereld Moebius Syndroom Bewustwordingsdag; Day of the Endangered Lawyer; Bewustmakingsdag voor Syndroom van Alagille.
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Het syndroom van Alagille (Alagi
De belangrijkste symptomen zijn die van cholestase
