An Owl Is Now Attacking Pedestrians In The Netherlands, Too
The residents of one Dutch town are cowering under umbrellas after an aggressive eagle owl started swooping out of the sky, sinking its talons into them and gouging their flesh….
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Dutch Offer Preview of Net Neutrality
THE HAGUE — When Bruno Leenders takes the 50-minute train ride to Amsterdam, he likes to stream blues and funk music through his smartphone. At home, Mr. Leenders, a Dutch…
When online censorship is beautiful
It would be hard not to smile, right? I mean, what is that alien thing? An oversized kaleidoscope? A rip in the Matrix? Some kind of freakish, town-sized cauliflower? When…
Cycling in Amsterdam: How to pedal like a local
It’s pancake flat, it’s riddled with cycle tracks and almost everyone gets around on two wheels. There are so many bikes it looks like — hard though this may be…
The Brian Williams case — that’s the way it wasn’t
When asked decades later whether he had flown over Utah or Omaha Beach, Cronkite shrugged. “I think it was Omaha,” he said. “We didn’t know about those names then, of…
These Masculine/Feminine Hybrids Show Gender Is Always More Complicated Than We Think
“From a young age I have been aware of both my female and male side,” artist Daantje Bons told The Huffington Post. The Dutch photographer channels aspects stereotypically associated with…
Heavy Soccer Playing Before Age 12 Tied To Later Hip Deformities, Study Says
BY KATHRYN DOYLE Thu Jan 22, 2015 11:06am EST (Reuters Heath) – In a study of Dutch professional footballers, a bone deformity at the hip was much more common among…