Category: Print Fall ’15

‘Das Auto.’ or ‘Das Auto?’

Volkswagen’s betrayal of our eco-friendly diesel fairy tale by Corine Fontijn WHEN thinking about the Volkswagen group, thoughts used to go in many directions, to the reliable family car that one will own in 20 years or the classic hippie bus. Last month, that changed. Volkswagen has been manipulating tests measuring their diesel engine’s nitrogen…

We Still Want The Truth

by Ishany C. Balder and Aimah Moiz SINCE the 1980s, there have been an estimated 80,000 cases of en-forced disappearances in Sri Lanka. This is 0.4% of the current population, making Sri Lanka the country with the second highest number of disappeared people in the world after Iraq. Disap-pearances became the modus operandi during the…

“The Scorch Trials” (2015)

A-maze-ing or a total crank? by Kirsten Kapteijns AFTER a year of waiting, the time was here; the second instalment of “The Maze Runner” series was re-leased. Cinematically, the success they achieved with “The Maze Runner” is seen through the quality of the set of “The Scorch Trials”. The film is visually appealing and stylized…

Puerto Rico

The Black Sheep of America’s Family by Anton Moggré WHILE Europe’s news outlets mainly talk about the never-ending fi nancial crisis of Greece, in the United States a similar situation has arisen. The country in question here: Puerto Rico. The tropical island, located in the Caribbean and a commonwealth of the United States, is currently…

EDITORS’ “In Dream”

Perfectly minimalistic and incredibly complex by Eden van der Moere September and October were some very fruitful months for my music collection. Almost every week, a new album that I had been waiting for was released, such as Ryan Adams’ 1989, CHVRCHES’ Every Open Eye and Lana Del Rey’s Honeymoon. But this album, is an…

The Waters of Mars

by Sanne Tol LAST year NASA celebrated its 10-year anniversary of Mars explora-tions by Mars rovers Spirit and Oppor-tunity, that were sent to Mars to search its surfaces for evidence of past water. This month NASA could report that there is not only evidence for past wa-ter, but also for present water. Humans haven been…

The Elliott Food Team

How fridges and Chilling Chickens became part of daily life by Tessa van Hoorn “CHILLING Chicken”, “Healthy Hummus”, “Mag-nificent Mozzarella” and more; these are not ways to teach children some-thing about either food or linguistics (alliteration awesomeness), but are some of the heroes of the Elliott Food Team. They have become part of my daily…

Print edition: rectifications

As awesome as it is to publish our printed edition, it rarely goes without small mistakes. Therefore, two rectifications: 1. Dear Becci Fobbe, we are sorry. You were not mentioned in the list of contributors, but you are, of course, part of Tabula Rasa. 2. In the article about discount, it is stated that De Middelburger…

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