What is the definition of a drug? Medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body. Well, there you go. Then chocolate clearly is a drug by those standards. It not only makes you feel better, but it also improves your memory and stimulates your abstract thinking.Continue reading “Will chocolate become illegal?”
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Did I just create a border conflict?
Never knew I would be responsible for starting a border conflict where both borders would refuse each car and motorbike to cross. Last Monday we needed to go to Vietnam to collect cacao pods for our new cacao nursery. Although I had the right forms to cross, the Cambodian officers advised me to add moreContinue reading “Did I just create a border conflict?”
Dynamite and water
Water, the essence of life. Without water no development is possible. When I lived in Europe, in the delta of the huge European rivers the Rijn and the Maas, I never thought of water shortages. In fact, it was more the opposite. Floods threaten the Netherlands once in a while. In 1953, thousands of Dutch diedContinue reading “Dynamite and water”
Geeks are the new cool
Ok, it is not as much fun as making it yourself, but for roughly €100 you can feel awesome with this Hasbro/Marvel Iron Man helmet. It even comes with light-up features and sound effects, and you can take the front plate off. The only thing you still have to bring along is imagination. And that goesContinue reading “Geeks are the new cool”
Perpetuum Mobile
With my work as an event organizer, I actually continued doing what I used to do as a child: creating stories; from the stories of a king against Robin Hood in our backyard with my brother and sister, to WOII invasion stories in the attic, sitting on my knees with my trousers rolled up, puttingContinue reading “Perpetuum Mobile”
Stefan Struik 