NewsThousands of Egyptians gathered Wednesday morning op Tahrir Square in Cairo to remember the revolution that took place exactly a year ago. The streets are calm. The thirty Dutch and Flemish students who arrived this week in the Egyptian capital can start their research undisturbed at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC).
Neanderthals already used iron oxides 250,000 years ago, much earlier than had been thought up to now. This is what Prof. Wil Roebroeks, Professor of Archaeology, and a number of colleagues will say in an article to be published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .
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.