Greetings, reader! Please be welcome to this WegWijzer, of which the theme will be “fire”. That’s because it’s just very fun to start into a fire, just like it’s very fun to read the WegWijzer. For those who do not know what fire is: it is the name we give to relatively fast exothermic oxidation reactions. In most cases that means the burning of organic material, where carbon based molecules are, through addition of oxygen (and usually a catalyst)  transformed into CO2 (at least if you do it right), heat and light. On Monday, there’s nothing to do except for going to your classes. If this lack of activities leaves you with a gaping sense of emptiness, you can always inform yourself about the safety- and environmental prescriptions with regards to making fire.  Better safe than sorry! Speaking of the importance of fire safety, did you know the deadliest fire in the history of mankind is either the fire of the Iglesia de la Compana de Jesus in Santiago, Chile from 8 december 1863 with casualties between 2000 and 3000 people or the fire of the Salang mountain pass, which happened on 3 december 1982 in the Hindu Kush mountains […]

Greetings, philosophers and sympathizers, and welcome to this WegWijzer. This week’s theme was arbitrarily chosen by my beautiful yet unknowing assistant. As a consequence, we will talk about the pterodactylus antiques, better known as simply “pterodactylus”. The pterodactylus was a pterosaurian that supposedly lived during the late Jura. The name “pterodactylus” was given by Georges Cuvier in 1809. That is much later than when the last pterodactylus died out, so we will probably never know how they felt as a species about that name. On Monday, NFK organizes nothing. That means you’re free to spend your time doing other useful things like: studying paleontology, watching funny cat videos or pondering the fact that the pterodactylus had  middle hand bones, just like humans. The options to choose from are endless. You could also register for a Chinese Philosophy reading group, organized by two PhD students. The studied texts will be taken from “ A sourcebook in Chinese philosophy” from 1969.  There is no previous knowledge required. If you’re interested or have questions, you can send an email to Dashan.Xu@student.kuleuven.be .  Time and place will follow. Tuesday evening you can go to the Fakparty  in the M-café from 9pm. Just like every […]