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STRUGGLING WITH RECURRENT CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTIONS: IS DONOR FAECES THE SOLUTION ( Read more... )

Though I'm not religious, I liked this quote I found while working on my thesis ( Read more... )

Flemish and European elections are coming up soon - June 7th - and I've got more choice than ever. The cartels that dominated the previous election have all split, which means there's now an even greater multitude of parties to choose from. From right to left ( Read more... )

Riding back to Antwerp today, I overheard a very odd (but inspiring) conversation between two older protestant women and four Muslim girls. They were having a civilised and fairly rational debate, though both sides suffered a tad from the "I'm skeptic and logical about everyone's holy books but mine" attitude many religious people have. Other than ( Read more... )

So, I've been neglecting LJ (my laptop is still at the repair shop, but I can - finally - go pick it up on Friday). I'm doing well, a fuller update perhaps later, but first I have to procrastinate. Let's talk about the news ( Read more... )

So my faithful laptop is having problems again. It all started last weekend, when my hard-drive became read-only all off a sudden. I restarted, and all was back to normal. No biggie, I figured ( Read more... )

So a new 'terror threat video' surfaced. A DVD was delivered to two TV broadcasters and Indymedia, containing the following footage.

To summarise: three dudes in front of a flag, mumbling something made rather inaudible by some bad Arab music. The subtitles, though, are vaguely threatening. Now, as you're all perfectly aware, in this day and age, ( Read more... )

Europe has often cast a discouraged eye at its transatlantic neighbour, has often shaken its head at this or that policy, at this or that sign of backwardness in an otherwise admirable country. While the States ruled supreme when it came to the strength of its armies or the power of its economy, we at least had the comfort of knowing that we were ( Read more... )

For my applications, I translated the introduction to my Bachelor paper, 'the sadness of Bella'. (The title works better in Dutch, since it's a pun on the title of one the Great Belgian Novels). Reproduced here for your enjoyment/mockery:

( LJ cut )